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  • Hey Guest, Early bird pricing on the Summer Moot (29th July - 10th August) available until April 6th, we'd love you to come. PLEASE CLICK HERE to early bird price and get more information.
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    bearbait replied to the thread What did you buy today?.
    In my experience, one always seems to find things in the last place one looks...
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    bearbait replied to the thread 2024 Bushcraft Goals.
    I'm hoping to try some more and different open-fire cooking techniques this year, using - amongst others - Reflector Oven, Dutch Oven...
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    bearbait replied to the thread Spring has Sprung - 2024.
    I saw my first few new foals from the "wild" Mountain Ponies up in the Black Mountains in Bannau Brycheiniog NP (in Wales, UK) today...
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    bearbait replied to the thread Handkerchiefs.
    Or maybe a snotgun?
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    bearbait replied to the thread What are you currently reading?.
    I really enjoyed the book. She's some girl: mid-20s she was when she did it, back in the 70s. Well impressed, I am...
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    bearbait replied to the thread How do warm blooded people cope.
    Lots of good comments and suggestions above. I sleep lightly clothed (just a merino base layer) in a silk liner in the sleeping bag...
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    bearbait replied to the thread Basha /tarp.
    I have a couple of DD tarps I've been pleased with. See sandbag47's recent thread re "DD Group buy 2024", if you're going down the DD...
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    bearbait replied to the thread Handkerchiefs.
    What a lady of my acquaintance calls "A Snot Rocket".
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    bearbait replied to the thread What are you currently reading?.
    The Future, by Naomi Alderman. Enjoying it very much. Published in 2023, it seems somewhat prescient and contemporaneous. And I get the...
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    bearbait replied to the thread For Sale Old western books.
    One of the shops in Hay-on-Wye, the Book Town, may be interested. Some of the shops specialise in different "areas" of literature so a...
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    bearbait replied to the thread What is wild swimming?.
    I used to do a lot of sailing back in the 80s and would often swim off the boat at anchor. Particularly in the Solent area I would get a...
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    bearbait replied to the thread Stoopid jokes.
    I consider myself pranked!
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    bearbait replied to the thread Urban Navigation.
    I always carry a compass in strange cities: it helps orient oneself rapidly when arriving back at ground level from a subway /...
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    bearbait replied to the thread Stoopid jokes.
    Two men are walking down the street. One says to the other, "Oh dear! Look at that dead bird." His friend looks up into the sky and...
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    bearbait replied to the thread Plastic free camping.
    I was reading recently that "The quest to declare the Anthropocene an official geological epoch has descended into an epic row..."...