You Know You're A Bushcrafter When...
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Sadly, so true!
When your prefer the smell of nicely damp Ventile in the morning rather than...........................................................................
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When you use the kids' sandpit as a tracking tray
When you get the kids to run/walk/jump/turn etc. on the beach and then spend ages looking at their footprints.
When the kindling basket next to the log burner is full of mushrooms, string, bits of antler, flint flakes etc.
When you write this, sitting on the sofa, with a fire on, watching a Bruce Parry DVD, while carrying a firesteel, EDC and tinder. Just in case...
When you get the kids to run/walk/jump/turn etc. on the beach and then spend ages looking at their footprints.
When the kindling basket next to the log burner is full of mushrooms, string, bits of antler, flint flakes etc.
When you write this, sitting on the sofa, with a fire on, watching a Bruce Parry DVD, while carrying a firesteel, EDC and tinder. Just in case...
You have a nice big thick scar somewhere on your carcass.....That could also mean you have spent time at Her Majesty's pleasure mind you.
When you test out a parachute canopy in your garden, then wonder if your wife would mind you lighting just a small fire on the lawn, nothing major, just to see the parachute bellow out like you've been told it will.
And the time you use the gas hob in the kitchen to test out some cheap stainless steel containers you bought at the bargain shop for a £1, just to make sure they'll boil water without disintegrating.
And the time you use the gas hob in the kitchen to test out some cheap stainless steel containers you bought at the bargain shop for a £1, just to make sure they'll boil water without disintegrating.
When people you don't know that well bring you samples of fungi they have found to the office for you to look at
When you come home from working away to find that the smoky smell of the chute that you'd draped over the upstairs banister to dry has been driving HWMBLT nuts, so he washed it !! and you get some truly weird looks next time you put it up and some smart sod says, "Toddy ? why does your parachute smell of persil ??"
okenest:For reference, yes the chute does go in a domestic front loading automatic washing machine, a 30deg wash is fine, but it removes the smoky waterproofing
and no, it doesn't go easily into the tumble drier.atb,
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When you come home from working away to find that the smoky smell of the chute that you'd draped over the upstairs banister to dry has been driving HWMBLT nuts, so he washed it !! and you get some truly weird looks next time you put it up and some smart sod says, "Toddy ? why does your parachute smell of persil ??"
For reference, yes the chute does go in a domestic front loading automatic washing machine, a 30deg wash is fine, but it removes the smoky waterproofing
atb,
M
And when you hang it out to dry in the garden, the slightly odd old Auntie who lives on the top floor thinks ze Germans have landed dressed as nuns.
Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.
When the last 3 emergency situations you would have been in were resolved by "handy items" on your person, your jacket pockets, bimble bag, GHB or that you concocted solutions from natural items found around you.
When Woodlands For Sale notices are far more interesting than any other For Sale notice.
When you can make fire by friction, sun, electricity, flint and steel, ferro rod or chemicals and would resort to any of these before a BIC lighter.
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When Woodlands For Sale notices are far more interesting than any other For Sale notice.
When you can make fire by friction, sun, electricity, flint and steel, ferro rod or chemicals and would resort to any of these before a BIC lighter.
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When you have too go and buy a shirt for a wedding cause you only own woolly jumpers and issue smocks but you do make sure yer get s 100% cotton one cause at least yer can make char cloth from it afterwards
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When you prefer to open tinned food with a keyring can opener than the full-sized one in the kitchen.
When you have to remove 80% of the items on your keyring to get through airport security.
When you have to remove 80% of the items on your keyring to get through airport security.
When the bag you take with you to camp is packed at least a month before you are going..
When you've already had your advance birthday and Christmas pressies in April because you're going somewhere new at Easter which just means you need x bit of gear
When your husband describes your bushcraft addiction to his mates as the female equiv of a bad porn habit!
When there are four stoves set up in the living room and they've been there so long people think they're ornaments.
When there are new colonies and ecosystems forming in the corner of your map/poachers pocket
When you see any skip as a source of presents, garden equipment, bushcraft gear, or at the very least firewood
When you've had to explain to your bank manager a weird payment overseas because some piece of gear was just irresistible and it was from a cottage manufacturer who took cash or cash
When your cups of tea at home are always in a kuksa or kulpika and you eat with a spork or spoon you made yourself.
When you've already had your advance birthday and Christmas pressies in April because you're going somewhere new at Easter which just means you need x bit of gear
When your husband describes your bushcraft addiction to his mates as the female equiv of a bad porn habit!
When there are four stoves set up in the living room and they've been there so long people think they're ornaments.
When there are new colonies and ecosystems forming in the corner of your map/poachers pocket
When you see any skip as a source of presents, garden equipment, bushcraft gear, or at the very least firewood
When you've had to explain to your bank manager a weird payment overseas because some piece of gear was just irresistible and it was from a cottage manufacturer who took cash or cash
When your cups of tea at home are always in a kuksa or kulpika and you eat with a spork or spoon you made yourself.
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