Greetings from Ontario

[Exploriment]

Hello,
Just stumbled across your forum today.
Read through some back posts, was impressed by what I saw, so I decided to join.
My name is Thomas, I live in Ontario, I'm 36 years old and have been wandering around in the bush for most of those years. I am a graphic/product/furniture designer and I'm also doing quite a bit of writing these days.
I do lots of hiking, mountain biking, canoeing, climbing, camping. I am a complete geardo (frequent contributor to several military and outdoor gear forums) and have a keen interest in the subject of wilderness first aid, outdoor survival, primitive skills, that sort of thing. Knives of course, shooting, just about anything outdoors related. Oh yeah and I also love Lego :-D
So yeah, I look forward to contributing to your forum and learning from all of you.
Thomas the Gregarious Green Giant

[Viking]

Welcome to BCUK :wave:

[Tony]

Good to have you, it sounds like you enjoy being outdoors :uu:

[Adi007]

Welcome to BCUK! :wave:

[jamesdevine]

Weclome pull up a log. All very friendly and lost learn and share.

Hope you enjoy.

James

PS Lego as in the building blocks

[Roving Rich]

Looks like you'll be right at home here. Don't worry we have plenty of Geardo's here :rolmao:
Welcome
Rich

[Ed]

Welcome aboard mate, good to have you here. I see you have already got stuck into the forums:-)

Enjoy

Ed

[Exploriment]

Yeah I read through a bunch of back posts, saw some things that I thought "hey I know a bit about that, pipe up."
I guess being in Canada I have a varied perspective on things, knowledge of suppliers, manufacturers, etc. in North America that you guys over in the UK might not, so yeah, my thought is share some of that information.
And conversely, I found a few sites that people provided links to that I had never heard of. Cool stuff.
I was just impressed by the quality of posts on here, and the overall tone of the place. Seems like a mature crowd, didn't notice any peevish flame wars, just a love of the outdoors in all of its glory, and a desire to share ideas with one another. Nice.
Yeah Lego, the building blocks. It's one of my favoured indoor activities. Bit daggy I know, but I just find it a great mind exercise. It involves creativity, logic, problem solving, a variety of other things. I've loved it since I was a wee lad. Mind you it's not an obsession or anything, but every once in a while when it is a crappy -25 day, nothing beats spending the day with a massive pile of little plastic bricks and letting my imagination run wild.
I just wish you guys had a forum that allowed avatars.

[jamesdevine]

No it's not daggy at all.

I too have a small collect of technical lego from my child hood and on the rare occasion I have the time still mess around with it.

Anyway weclome again.

James

[grumit]

welcome to you :-D

[Andy]

ahh lego i think im closer to the days of reguar use then most here at a tender age of 18. i once made a four bar linkage suspension system to get my head round how they work. my big hobby is mountain biking with a bit of everything else thrown in