Y is for ..... ???

[bikething]

Well can you blame me? I mean LOOK AT HIM!!

doesn't do a thing for me ....

 

[spamel]

PS - the way I'm reading your post Spam, it sounds like YOU'VE got a thing for Andrew Price

Damn straight, he's a handsome chap! I reckon he'd have been better playing Fred in Scooby Doo than that Freddie Prinze Jnr!

 

[Jodie]

I like the Yew / You notions.

Have just come back from a talk at Kew on medicinal plants in which the lecturer, Matthew
Biggs mentioned that during his time working at Kew they often got medical questions or
heard about strange deaths (eg the chap that was punctured with a ricin-containing 'ingot'
via umbrella) and he mentioned a case where a man was found to have consumed some
yew leaves intentionally (apparently he had been a bit 'into' druidry) and supposedly (I've
honestly no idea if this was true) this had been a favoured way out.

Really not a very nice end reportedly.

But the personal preparations of "you" for the letter Y sounds excellent... can I be the
umpteenth person to ask what they did with X

Now listening:
Mass for Oscillator and Tape
http://syncretism.net/playlists/electroacoustic.html <-- if you like radiophonic stuff.
If you don't, give it a wide berth

 

[Lucyc]

Looks like they've got the same request for V..

 

[andy_e]

Taking inspiration from this thread ...

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28656

... I'd suggest Youth, after all we should all aspire to pass on the skills and appreciation we have to the Younger Generation.

 

[big_swede]

I sincerely think those videos are quite bad. He shows no confidence in what he does and I think some stuff he suggests is downright wrong, for instance don't forget to STERILISE (quote! sic!) your knife for food prep by rubbing it against moss! The day I see a neurosurgeon go out in the bush and rubbing his scalpels in moss I can maybe accept it as sterilising, but until then I'll call it cleaning it, or maybe grubbing it off. The funny thing is that while he is 'sterilising' his knife on the moss, he has a pot with something boiling in it besides him, why not just rinse the freakin' knife in the boiling water?

Then there is other stuff too, but I've already commented on that, and besides, I think it's a good idea. It's just that they could have put more effort in it.

 

[andy_e]

Living in Sweden, you might not have a full appreciation of our Health Service here in the UK, however I may just be being cynical but surgeons cleaning their scalpels on moss might actually help reduce infection rates in our hospitals

 

[Nightwalker]

Yarrow? Medicinal uses, teas and tisanes. Compresses and so on. Got to be worth a go. I haven't checked up on th A-Z's lately, are there lots more out?

I've collected 14 episodes on one page here for you to easily watch them:
http://www.naturalbushcraft.co.uk/A-Z-Bushcraft.htm
All the best, Ash.

 

[abushcrafter]

I`ve just been watching the A-Z of Bushcraft clips again and I see they`re struggling for a Y episode. They`ve asked for any suggestions.

http://www.undercurrents.org/bushcraft/index.php

I can`t really think of much myself apart from Yew, for carving/bowmaking etc and the fact that the whole tree is poisonous could make it hard to string out for 10 minutes.

There`s also Yucca, for cordage but it`s not exactly common in this country.


Rich

I had posted yew on you tube befor you do this thread

 

[Nagual]

I had posted yew on you tube befor you do this thread

The more people that show off any bushcraft skills the better, I think you'd agree. Oh you know it's not a competition to see who's better at posting things ? Anyhoo the more sites that edutain to the unsuspecting public at large the better. It's only a shame other instructors don't follow suit, as this way Andrew is getting lot and lots of free advertising...



Cheers, Nag.

 

[Shewie]

I had posted yew on you tube befor you do this thread

Have you got a link to it, I can`t find anything bushcraft related and got bored of chinese videos eventually.


Rich

 

[abushcrafter]

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bushcraft&search_sort=video_date_uploaded

 

[Shewie]

Spooky that you commented on youtube the same day I put the thread up


Rich

 

[abushcrafter]

and :yikes: the aliens are coming!!! SO , while I .......:theyareon this is to much for me. = :tongue-ti

 

[gorilla]

Y is for youngster