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bushblade

bushblade

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Hello all

Just wanted to find out how many of us there are, and where you guys spend your outdoors time.

Most of my trips are into Galloway Forest park SW Scotland, very large area of mainly coniferous forest, though much of it is plantation and not realy accessible. And I haven't been able to get out as much as I'd like of recent.

I plan on attending one of the Woodsmoke courses as soon as I earn enough cash:grumpy:

So speak up who else is out there?
 
Yo! I'm here.

But I'm not sure I qualify these days as most of my survival trips were done about twenty years ago down on Dartmoor. I still like to read about it, but I'm getting too old to go sleeping under a poncho, or trekking over the moors like I used to.
I'm an armchair survivalist now :(
 
Im here. Wishing I were somewhere else. Like Wester Ross (around Loch Torridon) and Mull of Kintyre where I used to go. I envy you Bushblade you must live on the doorstep of some fantastic countryside.
Not been for up there for ages now cos of working in the concrete jungle. Saved up to go back to college. 51/2 years later and I graduate this summer (or not:rolleyes: )
I know I'm VERY rusty on some of the skills I was taught when I was a kid but I did light a small fire in my parents back garden over Christmas using vaseline/cotton tinder and wet wood :D how good is that!
looking forward to being able to afford to buy a car and rediscover the outdoors again.
 
I spend most of my time out and about the western Fell's ,Wast water,Ennerdale water and Lowes water in the quiet bit of the Lakes.I moved here to get away from the "attitude" that runs through London. ;)
 
If I'm feeling survivalist (or suicidal) then I'll wander around Hackney or Tower Hamlets for an evening :D
Sarf of the river, Eltham or Brixton would be testing too.

But 18 months to retirement, and a desperate need to get out of the south east. I'd love to emigrate to Scotland (have they knocked the wall down yet?), somewhere wild and bleak, and spend some serious time (more than a few weeks) just off in the hills. I'd have to take one of the woodland courses first though, but it's certainly something I'm looking forward to.
 
Whilst I am in the "Garden of England" I don' spend anytime outdoors as most is spent at work or in the w/shop. I do see a lot of countryside next to the M25 tho':p
 
I'm into walking & have completed the West Highland Way & the Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path. I have all the kit & would love to do more, but it's finding the time/leave/weather/money window that's the problem.

My next target is the Ridgeway.

Like Zardoz ;-) I retire next year. Also like him, I plan to retire to the NW coast of Scotland. It'll be somewhere remote and secluded, where I'll finally have the chance to use all the kit I'm accumulating. (I just scored a Talonite EDC and have a large BG42 Sebenza in the post!)

My ideal wilderness kit at the moment? My SAK Swisschamp and my SERE 2000.

See you all in Knoydart, 2005!

maximus otter
 
Originally posted by maximus otter
See you all in Knoydart, 2005!

Knoydart eh? a little to overcrowded for my liking :D
If I remember correctly the only place to meet in Knoydart is The Old Forge Inn in Inverie. Is that still there and is going by boat from ??? still the only way to get to it?
If all us forumites retired there we'd increase the population by 200%. It really is great up there isnt it.
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just remembered its Mallaig from where the boat goes. Or is it? DOH!
 
Donn,

I was just using Knoydart as an example; Spiglet & I could settle anywhere as long as it's on the coast or a sea loch, surrounded by trees, miles from f*****g people and with a few acres of land!

maximus otter
 
Originally posted by maximus otter

miles from f*****g people and with a few acres of land!

Amen Maximus. Paradise.
Knoydarts a great example. I just did a search and found this
www.oldforgeinn.co.uk
Looks like it actually could get a bit crowded round there sometimes.
Being of the Clan Donald I wouldn't mind parts of Skye. Land of the forefathers and all that.

Per Mere Per Terras
(By sea, by land)
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No not ex-mil. As far as I'm aware per mare per?terras is, and always has been the motto of the Macdonald clan. The marines nicked it but I dont know when, and I cant speak latin so I'll check cos my memory is about hazy as a Yorkshire fog.
That being said it could be part of the great 'tartan myth' which states alot of family coat-of-arms and tartans are relatively new inventions thought up for the midgey food, oops soz I meant tourists
:D
Our coat of arms is a steel gauntlet grasping a jewelled crucifix shaped like a dagger surrounded by a garter with the motto inside that. There are variations on it though so who knows so I think I'll hit the history books.
 
Donn,

I humbly beg forgiveness. I was consulting a wee book I have here entitled, "Discovering Mottoes, Slogans & War Cries." (Laugh-a-minute bedtime reading). It gives the slogan of MacDonald of Glengarry as "Per mare per terras", and the slogan of the Royal Marines as "Per mare, per terram." Both have the same translation into English!

I abase myself before you in abject humiliation!

maximus " 's Rioghal mo dhream" otter
 
I will be travelling to the UK next week for a quick business trip.
I will stay in London and travel to Kingswinford for a day.
Any suggestions? Anything (knife or survival related) that I should see, in the very limited free time that I will have? I have been to the UK at least 10 times, so I have already seen the basics. I remember finding a few expensive knives at Woodys of Wembley, but nothing else. Any tips?
 
Last time I went to Silvermans there wasn't much to see realy, the shop is just a glass counter, with not much to look at, you have to ask to see stuff choosing what you want from the catalogue. More like Argos realy.

Not hard to find though, just a short walk from mile end tube station if I remember right?

Will
 
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