What did santa bring?

[Nic Le Becheur]

Best present: a bottle of junmai daiginjo sake from my favourite niece.
No worst presents, and none of them bushcraft-related - the nearest being a copy of Ranulph Fiennes' new biography of Lawrence of Arabia, from Madame le B... Cracking book - Fiennes intersperses passages of his own experiences of desert guerilla warfare in Oman. Highly recommended.
And I bought myself a Christmas present - a scythe. Again, not quite bushcraft, but useful for the gardening and churchyard maintenance work I do, and using it, a skill I want to develop (not keen on power tools).

 

[Jay131]

Book: “The Moneyless Man; A year of freecomomic living”
and a 1950’s manual wind watch from the charity shop.
Loving the watch and enjoying the read!

 

[Tengu]

Humph.

We didnt get to my relatives. The weather was awful and there was a 90 minute delay on the bridge.

(And the old Severn crossing shut).

Of all my years doing this journey...to turn back is extremely unusual.

 

[gg012]

Book: “The Moneyless Man; A year of freecomomic living”
and a 1950’s manual wind watch from the charity shop.
Loving the watch and enjoying the read!

That watch sounds right up my street! Congratulations

Sent from underground

 

[Kepis]

Books,

The Odyssey by Homer
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Britain BC - Francis Pryor (Had a copy once before but regretted getting rid of it, so Nephew bought be a new copy)
Britain AD - Francis Pryor
Green Woodworking Pattern Book & Traditional Woodland Crafts - Modern reprints so i don't spoil my original copies.
Spoon carving book - EJ Osborne (Hatchet & Bear)
Bag of chocolate coins


More family coming later in the week with my Great Niece, so hopefully a few more books.

Been a good day.

Nephew and family have just been and added to my reading list.

Moby Dick
Ivanhoe
The Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
plus a really cool and small AM/FM radio for when im in the workshop, lockup etc and want a bit of background noise, or for catching the news when im out and about.