Hello everyone, since there is a special space for introductions I thought I should add myself and ALSO having been on the Bushmoot last week - I'd appreciate some help with matching people I met to forum names, if you please? .... If you think you know me, can you introduce yourselves to me? 
And if you don't know me then please introduce yourself to me anyway.
I'm Relfy aka Eleanor/El and some other names at the bushmoot that I have yet to see which stick....
I live on a narrowboat in Gloucestershire since landing there 3 years ago, having lived nearly everywhere else for a few months at a time for many years.
I do a lot of walking: mountains, lowlands, rain, shine, hail, cannot sit still, have to get out (especiallly now I live in a shoebox)... I also spend a lot of time fixing broken things (cars, boats, anything else anyone wants mended) and then sometimes I pretend to be a hydrologist and noone can tell me I'm wrong because they don't know either... I've managed to keep up this bluff for 6 years now and am shortly to be made redundant so I'm seeing it as a big relief and an opportunity to have completely new adventure
I'm not geeky about bushcraft I'm afraid, but I've always just done things that now I find come under the title 'bushcraft' like foraging, preserving, making fires, knowing the species of things and their uses and dangers, tracking, exploring... I do this wherever I am every day as a way of life - get home from work go out and see what's growing, who is nesting etc - (growing up on a farm probably helped with this) - I've always been by myself mostly though, so its an interesting concept for me to have other people around who treat it more academically and sociably - and this is fab! The Bushmoot was fantastic!! And I blame my sister Cyclingrelf for introducing me to it and the BCUK site. :You_Rock_
....At the moot, Rich convinced me that friction fire (hand drill - can't get on with bow drill) is more satisfying than matches and believe me - that is a big deal. I am thinking I might now be on the slippery slope to bushcraft geekdom.
Lots more I could say, but gotta stop somewhere. Don't want to bore you - and anyway, if I write it here, you won't buy my book when I finish it
Please come and introduce yourself to me so I know who's who as I am currently bewildered!
And if you don't know me then please introduce yourself to me anyway.I'm Relfy aka Eleanor/El and some other names at the bushmoot that I have yet to see which stick....
I live on a narrowboat in Gloucestershire since landing there 3 years ago, having lived nearly everywhere else for a few months at a time for many years.
I do a lot of walking: mountains, lowlands, rain, shine, hail, cannot sit still, have to get out (especiallly now I live in a shoebox)... I also spend a lot of time fixing broken things (cars, boats, anything else anyone wants mended) and then sometimes I pretend to be a hydrologist and noone can tell me I'm wrong because they don't know either... I've managed to keep up this bluff for 6 years now and am shortly to be made redundant so I'm seeing it as a big relief and an opportunity to have completely new adventure
I'm not geeky about bushcraft I'm afraid, but I've always just done things that now I find come under the title 'bushcraft' like foraging, preserving, making fires, knowing the species of things and their uses and dangers, tracking, exploring... I do this wherever I am every day as a way of life - get home from work go out and see what's growing, who is nesting etc - (growing up on a farm probably helped with this) - I've always been by myself mostly though, so its an interesting concept for me to have other people around who treat it more academically and sociably - and this is fab!
The Bushmoot was fantastic!! And I blame my sister Cyclingrelf for introducing me to it and the BCUK site. :You_Rock_ ....At the moot, Rich convinced me that friction fire (hand drill - can't get on with bow drill) is more satisfying than matches and believe me - that is a big deal. I am thinking I might now be on the slippery slope to bushcraft geekdom.
Lots more I could say, but gotta stop somewhere. Don't want to bore you - and anyway, if I write it here, you won't buy my book when I finish it
Please come and introduce yourself to me so I know who's who as I am currently bewildered!
