Recent content by JDCP

I've had a monsoon elite smock for a few months now. It's teak (sort of muddy off brown) I think it's a fairly unobtrusive drab sort of colour and enables you to blend into the landscape well enough. So far it's kept the weather out very well. It warms up rapidly if I'm walking briskly for 10...

A word to the wise, take care on the chase as poachers have been known to use firearms or crossbows while after deer and the like...just so as you know.

Luckylee, PM sent. Cheers. JDCP.

Fingle, check your PM please. Thanks.

I like Stephen King's 'The Girl Who loved Tom Gordon', also an older story by Algernon Blackwood 'The Wendigo'. Here:http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10897. The Wendigo is very bushcrafty-portages, birchbark canoe, wilderness all around...but it is a supernatural tale, as is King's. Enjoy if...

Saw two bats at about 5:50 this evening...is that a spring indicator?

Hello Zarkwon, nice of you to reply so early in the morning. Bering's article is a good one, but I never was convinced by the infinite regress. Sure, there's a causality behind all things going back to the big bang. Cause and effect are a given (unless you know about an uncaused cause!) but...

Zarkwon? Check #189 please. Cheers.

Sorry, just a quick question regarding Zarkwan's post #148. 'Belief in free will' and 'debunking that one'. Please expand just a little more, but don't get too heavy, I haven't read philosophy for about fourteen years! Regards. JDCP.

Have you thought about Yellow wood ? You might be able to use that site. Paul, the chap who runs it is a good bloke and may allow building of debris shelters...but you'd have to check obviously. Just a thought. Regards. JDCP

Try Yellow wood, bushcraft adventures. I've stopped there several times, owner is a good bloke, woods are nice quiet secluded, you can spit on the Black mountains from there. Hope its of use. Regards.

Haven't got any supernatural recounts (want to believe...But I don't...for now). However, sometimes on a Sunday I meet some friends in a local, we all walk so we can drink & not drive, obviously. My walk (alone) takes me about 2 miles through mature woodland near the edge of Cannock Chase...

I'd be grateful for any information about suitable sites in the West Midlands too. I'm in the Stafford area. Thanks.

I just photographed a Peacock butterfly in the back garden...unfortunately I'm too thick to figure out how to stick it on this post (the photo not the butterfly).

Woodstock, I used this place a while back. It's good. The chap who owns the woodland is quite easy going and approachable. I only stopped for one night due to time constraints, but will visit again sometime. The location is a little hard to find, and is situated away from main roads...