Glad you posted that rik_uk3, I was gonna say that and you saved me from needing to post.
Oooops. I did it anyway.
Oooops. I did it anyway.
Why moot instead of meet?
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Bushcraft seems an odd choice for the UK to me, in Aus they go 'bush' same in S. Africa, I dunno, do we have 'bush' in the UK, we have woods and forests? I think Ray Mears started the 'bushcraft' phenomenon in the UK as this Wiki article suggests.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushcraft
Campcraft, sounds, well, camp!
Woodcraft... Mmmm sounds like woodwork, spoon carving and the like.
Woodsmen/man or Wildcraft maybe?
Meh, what's in a name apart from commercial opportunities....
Si
meet anytime moot once a year where is the difficulty lolregards dave
For the first year I used this forum I didn't realise that the Bushmoot was a meeting!
For the ancient history buffs amongst us there are a number of "moot mounds" surviving from the Savon era, the best preserved being in the grounds of Marlborough College in Wiltshire (astonishingly it has a wooden hut built on top of it added during the early 20th century as a cricket pavilion). Moot mounds being the places at which the assemblies were held.
They're still using their moot mound in the Isle of Mann and every year the parliament meets there. Difference is that they call their moot mound Tynwald Hill, which is Norse (rather than Anglo-Saxon) for meeting place.
When we first came up with the idea for the moot we talked about names etc and decided that Moot was a good representation of what we were trying to do using the definition that it was an old word for meeting up, gathering etc, so we called it the BushMoot so that it stayed simple and yet was identifiable with us, at that point it was not used in bushcraft circles at all as we looked long and hard to make sure.
I can't remember the other names that members came up with but there were a few. The first Moot saw about 40 of us get together, seems like a long time ago now.
having it as a Moot remind me that we're not aiming for commercial but for friends and like minded people getting together to share in an activity and help each other.
I can't remember the other names that members came up with but there were a few. The first Moot saw about 40 of us get together, seems like a long time ago now.
having it as a Moot remind me that we're not aiming for commercial but for friends and like minded people getting together to share in an activity and help each other.
when where you there
I went to Downton secondary school in the 80's
and helped clear the Moot gardens when part of Downton Cadet force
ATB
Duncan
Thats pretty cool! I lived in the loft flat with my Uncle and Aunty for about a year, 1988\89 my uncle was the grounds keeper\house keeper, the Moot gardens were amazingly over grown but great for playing in
I used to go there for the summer holidays leading up to living there too,
I used to go there for the summer holidays leading up to living there too,Similar threads
