spitewinter june 2010

[Elines]

From my personal knowledge everyone is made to feel welcome at these dos (although never been to Spitewinter myself - setting off shortly - I have been to Rough Close which is similar)

 

[TinkyPete]

Ratbag you and your son are welcome. We are at the site at the minute and Stu and we all say hello.

 

[addo]

Right, im coming up, last minute pass out. See you in a bit

 

[Elines]

This weekend was brilliant - learned loads of stuff, met new great people and generally had a marvelous time. There was a small but perfectly formed group of up to 9 people

(You will have to use your imagination as I can't get Tiny pic to upload (even one picture))

Particular thanks to Shaggystu for organising and MartinK9 for being Head Chef.

For those who have not been - and it was my first visit - Spitewinter is a small open site, next to a road; it is a scout campsite and we had it all to ourselves. It has excellent facilities - especially the shower and toilet block

Martin started us off well on Saturday morning with a big breakfast using his Dutch oven, which we all soon polished off. And Shaggystu made bannock with an improvised oven.

Ged supplied hot water from his ghilly kettle, whilst practicing his fire lighting.

Saturday evening Martin, with support especially from Tinkypete, again took charge and produced a fantastic leg of lamb meal with all the trimmings - absolutely delicious - and again from the Dutch oven.

We had some flying visits from Ratbag and his son Robert, and also from Addo. Addo brought his bow drill set with him and gave us a demonstration of firelighting which some even managed to repeat (give you one guess as to who couldn't.)

All in all a great weekend and even the weather was good as it only rained lightly during Saturday night, with sunny spells the rest of the time.

Thanks again to all concerned.

 

[Ratbag]

Well it might have been a flying visit but we had a great time! Thanks to everyone for their hospitality and to Martin in particular for the stew last night - I wish I'd brought a bigger plate with me cos Robert polished most of it off. He's been telling everyone today that he went "real camping", he's absolutely buzzing.

Hope we didn't disturb anyone this morning with our early departure, although from the snoring coming from various pits as we passed I would guess not

Cheers

Rat

 

[shaggystu]

thanks to all for another great spitewinter meet, cracking weekend. thanks especially to martin for his cooking, food was superb as always, and addo for the impromptu bow drill demonstration, it's nice to sneak a little bushcraft in every now and then! i shall let you all know when we've got the site again.

thanks again

stuart

 

[addo]

Cheers for being top hosts, I enjoyed my evening with you chaps, especially all the stories about "fan dancing" etc.
Sorry for leaving without goodbyes but I had to scarper off early and you were all sleeping so well.
Hope Elines and Pete got their blankets back ok after I popped them under the tarp, cheers for the loan. I'll try and stay a bit longer next time.

 

[MartinK9]

Another great weekend, nice to see everyone again, and to meet new shrafters,

Pics on this thread:

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57907

 

[TinkyPete]

Thanks everyone for another great meet awesome site and was a great relaxing time, just what was needed cann't wait till I get another chance