View Full Version : Competition Time!
here's an oppertunity to win a superb BRK&T mikro.
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i bought this one from www.treemanknives.com
it's a tiny pocket whittler, pencil sharpener, string cutter, rabbit skinner, box opener, anything you like.
now, you can enter three times, but only once a day. the competition will run for a week, maybe longer.
all we want is a little nugget of something vaguely bushcrafty, a quick story of how you fell down a rabbit hole, or had a great cup of tea, with bannock, or saw an owl catch it's prey at dusk, or even a simple helpful hint. anything will do, don't be shy! :oops: if you can't think of anything bushcrafty, tell us a joke :-D but keep 'em reasonably clean please.
you also need to pick a number between one and 5000. if we can't decide on the best nugget of info, the winner will be the closest to the number i first thought of 8-)
cheers, and.
The Golden Rule of Winter Bushcraft:
Don't eat yellow snow.
2645
How about hand feeding a dog otter when fishing one day? Think it was probably a released one, but its got to be the best outdoors things I've done. (lost me hat to an owl that night too!).
Oh yeah, that and watching my first ever golden eagle in the Julian Alps from the top of Mount Triglav.
Erm, 1968.
Buckshot
02-07-2004, 16:04
Whilst out stalking one summers morning I was in a field working my way round to a group of Roe deer a few hundred yards away. As some poeple sometimes do, I felt someone/ something was watching me, slowly I turned round and saw what my sixth sense had warned me of.
Fifty yards behind me, next to the copse I'd just walked round stood a Roe kid watching me. It must have been born a few weeks earlier becuase when they're strong enough they start running with thier Mum.
Anyway, the young deer started walking towards me, gradually , nearer and nearer. I crouched down and the kid walked right up to me, I held out my hand and it sniffed it :-D :-D !
Well, I couldn't have washed that day because it didn't like what it smealt and trotted back whence it came and to the safety of the wood.
I was in heaven. What a great thing to happen. I packed in and went home to tell my wife.
She said 'That's nice. Make me a cup of tea please' Well it was about 7am on a Sunday morning !
I have another one about Otters but I wont bore you with that one now...
3896
Cheers
Mark
the most obvius tip of all keep your tinder dry or there is the first time we ever spotted perigrin falkons in guernsey that was a special moment
2000
jamesdevine
02-07-2004, 16:34
Well one of the best stories I have heard is from my brother Brian.
He was attempting a solo hike of the Wicklow way about year or so ago but from the very start everything seemed to be against him. He was soaked by rain, Chilled by wind and snow and his tent blow down on the first night breaking two of the poles.
He woke up tired wet and misrable but he was determend to carry on by the second night he was starting to feel a cold coming on and his feet had started to blister. But still the next morning dispite all the signs he carred on.
About lunch time he crested a hill the sun suddenly came out and a stag walked on to the trail 100 or so yards in front of him. Brain stopped and it stopped. He waited it didn't move 20mins went by so he thought he would go around it. It walked in front of him. He turn to go the other way it did the same.
Finally Brian took the hint he turned back took an escape route down to one of the villages and got transport home. He said the stag was visible for awhile behind him on the hill.
Next year we hope to do it together but we will be listening to mother nature alot more carefully this time.
James
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don't walk through a area covered with stinging nettles, the piece of cloth called your trousers will not protect you ! i'm never going to do that again !
# 2222
Always take someone that knows more than you do :wink:
Best Bushy tip I think I may have is to wear a light weight pair of gaiters in the dry months.
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I seldom see folks wear gaiters in the dry parts of the year, and always wonder how they keep the small stones and dirt out of their boots.
Part of the whole styling look eh?
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Most of the places I go in the spring to fall months are fairly dry and dusty, and if I fail to add the gaiters I find I pick up a small stone right away.
1983
I was returning from a 3-day walk in South Africa and we were driving down the west coast. We decided to stop about four hours from Cape Town in a game lodge. Through-out the trip i had escaped all animal threats from Rottweilers, Wildebeest, and even Giraffe.
So i lost my guard naturally as i walked through the door of the lodge, only to be attacked by an enormous Parrot . It jumped at me from behind as i walked in, leaving me with a cut on my neck!
1914
Cheers,
Jake
ps...Sargey, this is very generous of you, thanks.
ChrisKavanaugh
02-07-2004, 18:33
I had to look at this tiny new knife twice before I recognised it. It's Oetsi's! Just think, while the present location of the pyramids still felt the signature of snakes he lay sleeping with it in his hand. What forgotten and meaningless dispute led to his killing, and being killed by men not unlike himself, probably not far removed from a common ancestor? Have we really made any progress? Do we have any more, or less right to walk in our homelands gathering herbs, carrying a simple kit of firemaking, an axe, backpack and SAS smock? The bushcrafter who wins this knife will cut many times with it. Lets hope that person, and all of us when meeting strangers in the wilds uses it to also cut through fear and the inability to share.
BorderReiver
02-07-2004, 19:00
While I was walking along a hedge on a miserable spring day,a fledgling flew out of the hedge and landed on my chest and hung onto my jumper.It stayed there for two or three minutes and then flew back into the hedge.
That really made my day and I will never forget that two or three minutes.
Number 2520
ditchfield
02-07-2004, 19:24
Walking 20 miles home barefoot the morning after a night out with nothing but a pocket full of mixed nuts to keep me going. :-D
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MagiKelly
02-07-2004, 20:37
Sort of a bushcraft story but not as cute as the rest.
At the weekend my eldest daughter, Eleanor, managed to ride a bike without stabalisers. As a reward I was carving her a wooden star (cause she is a star). This was the first outing with my frosts carving knife. I had got it as I figured it would be safer than my bushcrafter for whittling. The shorter lenth should make it more controlled. You will be well ahead of me now. The wood popped out of my hand and the knife blade popped in. I am typing this with four stitches in my left hand. This is the first time I have had stitches, sad but I feal like a real man now.
As they say you pay for your learning and not always with money.
1967
my first girlfriend getting us lost in some woods with a 12mile walk to get back to my house if we couldn't find where we were going. knowing that I had a knife and a fire steel with me and would be able to keep us warm for the night if we had to stay.
I now intend to carve a love spoon when I get a chance
1985 (the year of my birth)
bushwacker bob
02-07-2004, 21:28
On the first of many Visits to hay-on-Wye pony sales,about 10 years ago,my missus let me choose the route as she has no navigation skills.The kids were all between 9 and 16 years old (and had been given my spirit of adventure)The kids and I carefully studied the O.S. map and decided the ONLY route went through the black mountains and over Gospel Pass, a place I'm sure many of you are familiar with. I must add at this point that my wife hates heights with a vengance. We were heading North, up the hill. All went well for the 11 or so miles uphill drive, we even stopped about 8 miles up to brew up the KK and exercise or nearly numb legs. AS we reached the top of the watershed the vista opened up to show us half of Wales laid before us. This was accompanied by the loudest ear splitting scream I have ever heard and rapidly followed by a string of hard core expleetives that I didn't know she knew. had the kids wetting themselves and tears running down their faces. The first one to speak said 'bet we're not allowed to go back this way' She now can map read and checks all routes.
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I was out one summer evening photographing Black-Headed Gulls picking St Marks Flies from surface of a pond in the middle of a wood. I had used up the film in two cameras I set off back to my car. I didn't bother putting any more film in them as I was using Kodachrome 64 and the light was starting to fade. As I came out of the wood a Short-eared Owl (my favourite bird) flew past me at head height at around 12ft from me. He turned his head and looked me in the eye, turned it back again and carried on his merry way.
He didn't swerve or miss a wing beat just floated away. There's me jaw on the floor, two cameras round my neck and no film in either of them.
Have you ever been exhilarated and totally p***ed off at the same time?
I have!
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on the floor, two cameras round my neck and no film in either of them.
Have you ever been exhilarated and totally p***ed off at the same time?
I have!Yeah! It's a special clause in Sod's Law, just for photographers! :wink: So many times the opportunity of the perfect shot has been a split second out of my reach. The worst one ever was in the Llanberis pass in Snowdonia a while back, photographing an amazing purple-pink sunset. I put the lens cap back on to pack up and suddenly two apache gunships out of nowhere, fly down until they're practically on top of us, beautifully framed between the mountains against this 100% perfect sky! By the time I close the shutter, all I get is a couple of blades of tail rotor. I can still see that perfect picture in my head ... :roll:
And I was lying in my bivvy the other evening waiting to see some baby wrens that my dad had seen earlier in the day. I had my camera set up on a tri-pod pointing towards a bush - hoping to get a photo, but not really expecting to be able to catch one of them as they are so small and very fast. I'd laid still for ages and ages resting on my elbows and just as I stretched to give my arms a break, one of the babies popped right into the viewfinder! Then it flew off again before I could take the photo. Gutted! Don't know how wildlife photographers do it!
It was a nice evening though...
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BorderReiver
03-07-2004, 15:48
Simple pleasures II.
Sitting on the banks of an ice cold stream on a blistering hot day with your feet dangling in the water. 8-)
You're ready for many more miles after that. :-P
1745.
After a long hill up thru the mud, with tired legs, to stand still, enjoy the view and have a leak. That was the best view i ever had, while doing that ! :-D
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ChrisKavanaugh
03-07-2004, 16:51
I was finishing my Coast Guard enlistment in Alameda California on a manmade island with the inspiring name of government island. It had been formed during early dredging. It was the old Pan American China Clipper base and nearby I located the spot nearby where Jack London tied up Razzle Dazzle when a oyster pirate. Aside from the standard seagulls and pidgeons nature had fled the area to rusting WW2 ships waiting for the breakers and trendy fish retaurants trying desperately to look nautical with knock off antiques from New England. My barracks was a rather uninspired two story brick affair. One evening, we were watching the cult movie Jeremiah Johnson with Robert Redford. Several of us had served together in Alaska. Come commerical break, and we all ran to get a soda, use the lou etc. I was getting a coke from the vending machine when my friend Timmy walked up, tears in his eyes. "I miss Kodiak" escaped from our mouths simultaneously. So, I hatched a plot. My last duty billet was an insulting stint supervising the base grounds with a crew of drug rehab idiots doing everything ( and conversely nothing productive) to get discharged. We had taken delivery of several score 5 gallon pine trees to landscape the base. I cleared out my barracks room and with my 2 roommates 'borrowed' 24 of the trees over the weekend. I even had another Redford narrated LP playing various wolf howls and several of us 'camped out' getting drunk and telling Alaska stories everyone had heard ( and claimed the real role as the potagonist.) It was the CAMPFIRE that did us in and the hotdogs and smoors. The duty master at Arms, a sweet, 280 lb tongan named Sui Tuitasie knocked on the door, took one look and fled. I went below after him with a soda and hotdog. After promises to have it all cleared by Sunday evening and NO MORE FIRES, he agreed he hadn't seen or heard anything. We woke before reveille in our sleeping bags and withing minutes a line of sailors looking like Tolkien Ents went walking past the base chaplain on his bicycle. That monday the Co pulled a suprise inspection. He commented how nice our room looked ( no centerfolds) and SMELLED almost like a campground. "yes, I need some leavetime men. I swear I can smell pinetrees, a campfire and even smores."
ditchfield
04-07-2004, 16:41
I learned about being prepared the hard way when on one of my first mountain climbs (walks) in the Lake District when I was about 10, having to wear socks on my hands and shelter in a hollow rock during an impromptue blizzard. I will always remember that and found it tremendous fun at the time.
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The walk I did today was great, we went un to "les Jumelles", they're "twin" mountains above Taney (the Taney lake had the most magnificiant colour by the way).
We were walking along the normal path, when all of a sudden we saw two bouquetins round the bend. (sorry I don't think there's an english name for them) They were just lying on the path, and ran off when they noticed us. They only went two meters further though, and just stayed there staring at us. We took a photo of them, then walked slowly towards them, got within 5 metres of them, and just stayed there awhile. Then a marmot appeared a bit further on, just sat peacefully on the rock and didn't move. The three of them (marmot + bouquetins) just didn't mind us.
We then moved on, and got to a little lake. There was a hole herd of bouquetins, at least 13 of them, with adults (mostly female, just one male), young ones and a baby. We watched them for a while and even had our picnic there. They were all sticking their heads in a little hole next to the lake, probably to drink fresher water than the lakes...but I'm not sure. We saw two walkers a bit further that said they saw a newborn baby, that couldn't walk yet and was still yet (like all newborns...).
Arriving at the top was quite something, you're on the stony hill whith just the view down the valley, then you get to the ridge, poke your head over it and there's a beautifull plunging view on the lake and everything that's behind it. It was really breathtaking.
Unfortunately the camera had a problem with the battery so I don't have many photos, and the ones I have aren't very good. Sorry for the size of the pictures...
These are the first two (no photo of the marmot)
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This is the herd, the baby is in the shadow of his mother near the top left, and the younger one is the hairy one in the bottom right.
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This is the hole they stick their heads in, it's the male that looks like the "master" with his head in it, and the baby is in the middle of the photograph.
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I'm completely worn out, but it was a great day!
*EDIT* forgot the number: #500
Whilst treking through Cotopaxi National Park during travels in Ecuador...
We set up camp under the cover of darkness and rain. This was not the greatest end to an overclouded, wet, headache-from-altitude filled day!!
However, crawling out my tent the next morning to This:
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...made it all seem worthwile.
#4552
Cheers!!
In Norway on my first holiday with my wife-to-be and two old friends. Arriving on foot in a small village far north of the arctic circle we asked if there was a camping ground where we could stay the night. The owner of the hotel where we asked said simply to walk down the beach until we were clear of the wooden racks used for drying fish and then camp anywhere we chose. He then invited us to set in to fill up our water supplies and use their hot water to freshen up.
After choosing a place to bivvy, we set a generous fire of driftwood and enjoyed a meal followed by a walk along the waters edge. Then as the midnight sun dipped towards the horizon and rose again without setting we sat around the fire telling stories and watched a flock of arctic terns feeding offshore far into the "night".
It was the highlight of a magical trip and remains one of the most vivid memories of my life.
Alick
#1974
BorderReiver
04-07-2004, 20:53
Simple pleasures III.
Sitting by your campfire eating a meal that you have taken from the wild yourself.
TheViking
04-07-2004, 21:19
Hey
It is easy to say that it will not rain on your next trip, when you sit inside, but when you're just about to leave your house!: Take the raincoat with you too!
#2500
When in the first year of sixth form I sorted ot starting the D of E. The only group I could go with was with four lads I didn't know, the first thingthey said was do you have a tent to use. We camped on the last weekend of November. Very nasty weather with windchil down to about -11 waking up with ice on my pillow and finding my mess tin filled with ice.
0001
cool stuff!
keep 'em coming, chris k and ditchfield, don't forget your numbers!
cheers, and.
#661
Beautiful sunset last night - the sun set right behind the mountains of Mourne across the Irish Sea.
Kids shelters were a SASS combined rucksack cover/emergency shelter with a SASS pole as central support or using a low earth wall (no trees ...!)
For dinner, I ate ratpack pork casserole and treacle pud cooked on hexy, lit with Bushcraft Bison and charcloth. The kids took turns to use the blast match to light their stoves. (it's awesome! - cheers Jamie :wink: ) Luckily the rain put out the small brushfire on the headland! :oops:
Spent the night under my basha (SASS again) :-D
Woke up about 5 am with an oyster catcher about 10 feet away from me - completely unpeturbed by me shuffling around, getting my camera out of the bag, opening velcro etc but flew off when my camera beeped!
All in all, a great time!
MartiniDave
06-07-2004, 09:19
#42
Being able to walk through the middle of a wheat field yesterday evening, (on a footpath of course!) without so much as a hint of havfever!
Dave
P.S. That looks a great spot Kath, wonderful photos!
Buckshot
06-07-2004, 13:26
When I'm talking to people at work I sometimes have to stop and think.
Sometimes I forget just how lucky my lifestyle makes me.
When you spend alot of time out and about you see all kind of things, Badgers and deer, Buzzards and Red Kytes, the eruption of life in the spring and the ceasation of it in winter.
Occasionally, just occasionally, when talking about what I did at the weekend, or last night, people look at me in disbelief, I forget not everyone see the things I do.
I feel privilieged and humbled to a small part of this wonderfull thing called nature :ekt:
Thanks
Mark
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An easy way to clean your shoe's from dung you got at the beginning of a hike, is to walk through several diffrent terrains, crass, mud, durt and gravel combind are wonderfull crap cleaners, for the botom of your shoes that is. Walk several hunderd yard on hard sufaces to clean all the gravel and stuff...
#4321
MagiKelly
06-07-2004, 14:19
Not strictly bushcraft but the best advice I ever got was
Choose work as if the money did not matter
Love like you have never been hurt
& Dance like you do when no one is looking
#1
Simple advice, but practice, practice and practice some more. Don't just limit practicing your skills to trips or expeditions but take every opportunity to refine your skills.
#1954
The Ten Bushcraft Commandments
Thou shalt not lend thy neighbour thy knife. For thy neighbour understandeth not these things, and shall surely use it dig latrines, etc.
Thou shalt not lend thy neighbour thy axe. For he shall surely smite himself with it, and his skull blunteth the edge that thou spent hours honing.
Thou had best not lend thy neighbour thy saw either, to be honest. For there is no end to the ingenuity of fools.
Thou shalt not wear coats of many colours, like the tribe of Ramblerites and Hikerites, for such garb scareth the deer.
But neither shalt thou look like a flipping mercenary.
Thou shalt not pretend to thy less experienced brethren that the bow-drill is easy.
Thou shalt not kill, unless thou intendeth to eat it afterwards.
Thou shalt not falsely identify mushrooms of the genus Psilocybe to thy neighbour, claiming that they are a delicacy.
…….sorry, somebody else provide the last two!!
Roving Rich
06-07-2004, 17:07
Thou shalt leave no trace when thou leaveth the woods....
and erm 87
(it will be mine, mine i tell you mwahhaahaahaahaa)
Cheers Rich
MartiniDave
06-07-2004, 17:08
...Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's Axe.
Thou shalt not make char cloth from your good woman's best table cloth :wave:
Dave
Thou shalt not make char cloth from your good woman's best table cloth :wave:
Dave
I was waiting for that one! :o): :rolmao: ;)
Thou shalt not make char cloth from your good woman's best table cloth :wave: :clap: :o): :rolmao: Cheers Dave!!
(By the way Dave, you said you were hayfever free - how'd you manage it??)
A few years ago I was paddling my canoe on a quiet part of the river Clyde, up near the headwaters where it flows through some woods and past some very quiet arable land. The water was pretty shallow in parts and at times the river narrowed down and the banks were above my head. I hadn't brought my canoe pole and every time I hit shallow water I had to jump out and pull the boat through rather than damage my paddle by hitting on the bottom.
I reached another shallow part where a short shingle bank meant that the river shallowed out for 20 or 30 metres, so I jumped over the side and began to pull the boat through to the deeper water on the other side. As I did so I heard a noise form the bank - squealing and angry whistling. I stopped and got lower in the water so that I was mostly hidden behind the boat and I waited to see what was making the noise.
It wasn't long before I found out! A ball of whirling claws and snapping jaws came tumbling in to view not 20 feet from me! An otter had come across two mink and they had attacked!
It was all over in seconds but it seemed like ages, at first the mink seemed to be getting the better of the otter - it was trying to run but one mink had hold of the scruff of its neck and the other was snapping at its throat. I was stuck there watching and trying to make up my mind whether or not to help the otter out when the otter grabbed the mink in front of it by the head and shook it like terrier shaking a rat. It threw the mink away from it and ran at it again, ignoring the one on its back. The first mink decided that discretion was perhaps the better part of valour and ran off covered in blood. The otter dealt with the second one in short order and soon chased it over the bank and out to the fields.
I was stunned! I had never heard of mink attacking an otter before and I was amazed by the ferocity of the encounter. I climbed back in my boat and rolled a cigarette and wondered how badly the otter had been hurt. I needn't have worrid however, I heard a noise from along the bank and turned around just in time to see the otter slip in to the water a few metres away and swim powerfully off round a shallow bend.
I reached the deeper water and paddled slowly away, feeling stunned and priveliged and pretty much in awe of the ancient tribal battle I had just seen.
George
P.S. I'll try number 451
MartiniDave
07-07-2004, 13:55
Kath,
Yep, so far this year I've been almost totally clear of hayfever. I don't know exactly what has made the difference, but this year:-
I've spent a lot more time outdoors, in amongst the pollen.
I'm taking multivitamins.
I avoid coffee except one cup first thing (there are limits!)
I've got some herbal nasal spray called Laffa Complex that I use if I think I might be going really "in harms way"
I refuse to get hayfever!
Dave
bushwacker bob
07-07-2004, 23:55
Always carry a yard or two of loo roll in an inside pocket. It folds flat,weighs nothing and has multiple uses.The obvious,blowing your nose,emergency tinder and as medical dressings etc.
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ChrisKavanaugh
08-07-2004, 01:18
Neck knives are a popular and readily accessable carry mode. The one flaw is the materials used for the necklace. I've seen paracord, leather lacing and the ball chains used for military ID tags. Lampwicking, that flat cotton material used in oil lamps is available in Canada from SIR mailorder. If you can find a UK source for a small roll get it. Aside from superior comfort, a few breakaway stitches make it far safer should you manage to garrot yourself on an overhanging branch or other unlikely hazard (btdt with para.) Lampwicking also has the happy ability to provide a ready source of tinder by unravelling the threads. It is also the raw material for traditional snowshoe bindings, which, like many traditions outperform all the new models. The stuff is truly versatile.
Good one Chris - don't forget your number! ;-)
MartiniDave
08-07-2004, 08:59
If you know anybody who shoots old military rifles they will often find a material very similar to the lampwick Chris recommends, used to help get the individual boxes of ammo out of the larger boxes.
Dave
ditchfield
09-07-2004, 20:16
Wear a Breathable jacket that is not 100% waterproof. This allows a small amount of water to soak in and prevents splashback and soaking wet thighs from run off. It keeps back all but the most driving rain.
2423
Remember, two is one and one is none. Always have a backup!
#3743
bushwacker bob
09-07-2004, 23:30
This is using my 'third wish' up, but tip of the week for those of us desperate enough to want to win this knife; even if your post is weak, dont forget your magic number!
No. 42
I think one aspect of spending time in the woods can sometimes get shoved aside by our restricted time availability and other outside pressures. This quote from Calvin Rutstrum is one I try and remember once I get afield. Here his advice is about a wilderness canoe trip but really this sort of approach to a trip is good no matter where, how or how long one goes.
Travel leisurely. Don’t make the rat race out of your journey. You will miss the profound pleasures and see little if you do. Paddle close to shore when you can. You will then be more likely to see wildlife in the forest. Even by poking along at a lazyman’s pace, you will be from fifty to a hundred miles or better from your point of departure in a week. Take a long time for getting good pictures. The trip will last for a short while, the pictures a lifetime. Memoranda for Canoe Country, 1953
I'll also take 1953 to honor this old quote.
I was down in St Andrews bay in South Georgia with some mates and we could hear a funny noise, it turned out to be a elephant seal pup, it had become stuck in an underground stream and was calling for its mum, she could not get to it and had enough sense not to go into the same hole in the ice.
As a group six of us went on a rescue mission, 2 to keep the mother at bay and four to get the pup out of the hole that it was in.
We managed to coax the the pup onto a tarp (it took nearly an hour) that we thought that would take the weight (they are not exactly light and we didn't want to get our smell on the pup in case the mum rejected it) and lifted the pup out to its mum, it was a very happy moment when it was re-united with its mum an an abiding memory 8-) .
The mum then proceeded to chase us off and once everything was over and about fifteen minutes had passed we had the harbour master (a member of greenpeace) congratulate us. :wave:
We didn't need it we were on a buzz for our good deed of the day. :-D
The major thing to remember I suppose is, if you come across an animal that is alone and young DON'T TOUCH IT WITH YOUR BARE HANDS IF AT ALL . If you do and the mother returns she may reject it because of your smell or even attack if she gets back whilst you are handling the youngster.
We were given a state of grace to remove the pup from a bad situation by its mother, the majority of the time this may not be the case.
Andy this is not part of the competition, it was all the reward that was needed in itself.
Leon-1 good post. Great outcome. :You_Rock_
Many thanks Wayne, but it is probably no more than anyone here would have done. :-)
Will see you at the meetup :wave:
#1997
Always pack away your kit after each outting. Don't forget to empty water bottles, clean billies/mugs/spoons. Sharpen your knife. Air your sleeping bag (loosen any compression straps) and thoroughly dry out any wet kit.
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Of course all that's easier said that done! :oops: :oopsb:
MagiKelly
13-07-2004, 14:53
Always remember to have fun. Everything else is just details.
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are we done then d'ya reckon?
too many great replies to keep track of :You_Rock_ :super: thanks for all of 'em. pretty much what was expected. so i'll have to away and consult the oracle for the winning tie breaker number...
back soon! :o):
cheers, and.
THE SUSPENCE!!!!!! :yikes:
the suspense is killing me too, i did find out what the winning number was, but i forgot it on the way back down the mountain :shock: time to sneak a couple more entries in? :o):
cheers, and.
(back off up the mountain....)
Ah well, if there's time for one more, then don't forget that one of life's simple pleasures is peeing outdoors :o):
#1965
Always remember the 3 P's
Paracord, Poncho and Puukko.
Cheers
JFW
1969
Keith_Beef
23-07-2004, 10:39
My wife and I went on holiday to Crete about five years ago. We flew out there, and rented a car to drive around the island, renting rooms here and there as we travelled around.
Bear with me, there is a bit of bushy craftiness toward the end.
We arrived at a little village called Kato Zakros, where we got talking to a young man about renting a room for three nights. He put us in touch with someone who rented us a holiday cottage. Small, clean, two gas rings and a small fridge.
Well, knowing from experience that a steering wheel can get unbearably hot when the car is parked in the sun, I'd taken a pair of imitation pigskin gloves (cheap enough that I wouldn't cry if I lost them).
These really came in handy (pun intended) on the first morning when, we looked over the land around us and saw almond trees, pomegranate trees and [b]prickly pear cacti[b].
Like Baden-Powel said: be prepared.
Breakfast and dinner: straight from the garden.
Supper: ouzo, retsina, locally produced red wine and raki, fresh fruit and veg, freshly caught fish.
My number: 7
Keith.
ok, the winning numbers are..........
drum roll please.......
as chosen by the oracle, and her mate.......................
.................
1st prize, the bark river mikro. the winng number is........
687
2nd prize, continuing the tiny knife theme, a little schrade stockman. the winning numer is.........
3228
thanks for all the helpful tips, jokes and entries. :You_Rock_
so who got the closet numbers without going over? surely you can't expect me to read 'em all again?:rolmao: :o):
cheers, and.
bushwacker bob
24-07-2004, 23:20
must have been me Sargy :o):
Hjaltlander
25-07-2004, 05:21
Hi Guys
Just trying to be helpful, i think on close inspection of the post's, although i could be wrong, that the winners are...
Kath (post number 30) number 661
Ditchfield (post number 13) number 2798
If i'm wrong i apologise, etc etc
Hjaltlander
Hi Guys
Just trying to be helpful, i think on close inspection of the post's, although i could be wrong, that the winners are...
Kath (post number 30) number 661
Ditchfield (post number 13) number 2798
If i'm wrong i apologise, etc etc
Hjaltlander
Looks like you're right Hjaltlander.
Congratulations Kath(!) and Ditchfield! :biggthump :biggthump
ditchfield
25-07-2004, 11:05
WOOHOO!!! I've been lusting after a little slipjoint for a while. :-D
Thanks for the great contest Sargey (Your stuff is in the mail BTW).
Wow! I won! Amazing - coz I never win things usually. Now what was my prize again? Some sort of knife wasn't it??? :wink:
--- Nah just kiddin fellas, it's not going to go to waste on a girl! It looks like a little gem of a knife - I shall put it to very good use!
Cheers Sargey - you are a star! :star:
FFFIIIIIXXXXX!!!!!
:roll: :o):
i'd just like to point out that it was my daughter emma, and her mate amy, who picked the numbers, so any sore losers, blame them :wave:
ok guys, PM me your snail mail addresses. i'll try to get 'em out this week.
kath do you want the mikro with the factory edge, or really really sharp?
cheers, and.
MartiniDave
26-07-2004, 09:04
Congratulations to the winners!
Thanks Sargey for running the comp.
Dave
bushwacker bob
26-07-2004, 18:54
Well done Kath and Ditchfield :wave:
Thanks for the competition Sargy :super: