View Full Version : Any one in the Dorset area?
BushTucker
13-09-2007, 17:33
Hi all
This one has probably been done before , if so, forgive me .
Who is local to me, I live in Weymouth, I know its not the best place for bushcrafty things but lovely views and great days out.
Maybe a good chance for a gathering in the area eh....
Just in Dorset left of Ringwood but go to Portland Diving
ATB
Duncan
I could throw a rock and it would land in Wiltshire, but it says Dorset on the map. I'm just outside of Sixpenny Handley.
I live in dorset too , about 12 miles from weymouth . Definately up for a meet this close to home .
Pumbaa
I'm north of you in Wiltshire, but I'd be interested in a meet.
G
BushTucker
19-09-2007, 19:24
Would be nice if we could all hook up somewhere near for us all. Has any of you guys got any ideas where?
Don
Somewhere around Blandford Forum seems pretty central, but I don't know that area at all well. Are any of you going to the Cranbourne Chase Wood Fair at Tollard Royal in a few weeks? I've got quite a lot I need to do whilst I'm there (researching woodland crafts mainly), but would be happy to meet up with others for a brew at some point.
G
The wood fair seems like a good possibility - SWMBO owes me an outing or two.
Failing that, for bimbles in public-access woods, I can suggest Ringwood Forest, the woods to the north of Sixpenny Handley (i.e. just round the corner for me) the woods to the north of Martin Down or the New Forest - unless you can suggest any favourites?
FGYT has been having some thoughts too, but I think he's off camping somewhere just now.
The wood fair seems like a good possibility - SWMBO owes me an outing or two.
Let me know if you (or anyone else on here) is going and we'll sort out how to meet up.
Failing that, for bimbles in public-access woods, I can suggest Ringwood Forest, the woods to the north of Sixpenny Handley (i.e. just round the corner for me) the woods to the north of Martin Down or the New Forest - unless you can suggest any favourites?
FGYT has been having some thoughts too, but I think he's off camping somewhere just now.
The further north (of Dorset) the better for me at the moment, as my time will be limited. But I'm definitely up for a bimble somewhere.
G
Please give us a shout if you fancy meeting up for anything, as I live in the Bournemouth area, but can travel within reason.
Cheers,
Ag
I'm in Yeovil and got down to Weymouth all the time. I'll be ready whenever a place is arranged.
Are any of you going to the Cranbourne Chase Wood Fair at Tollard Royal in a few weeks? I've got quite a lot I need to do whilst I'm there (researching woodland crafts mainly), but would be happy to meet up with others for a brew at some point.
G
found that the other day from the blurb Dave Budd is demonstrating there
i definatly want to go (always have a brew kit handy ;) )
a bimble in public access woods is easiest for a Chat and a brew etc
Working on finding a land owner who will let you play in the woods is a bit more difficult even in exchnage for a little help round the place etc
ATB
Duncan
Dave Budd
25-09-2007, 09:51
Was just going to post that when I did my traingin excavation many years ago, I stayed in Six Penny. I had the best birthday party I'd ever had there courtesy of the Roe Buck's landlord :D
As FGYT says, I'm going to be at the Woodfair with my Iron Age forge and sharpening demos. Oh and a table of sharps of course :D (that reminds me, I must return the booking form :rolleyes: :lol: )
As FGYT says, I'm going to be at the Woodfair with my Iron Age forge and sharpening demos. Oh and a table of sharps of course :D (that reminds me, I must return the booking form :rolleyes: :lol: )
Excellent. I'll come and seek you out.
Graham
Dave Budd
25-09-2007, 14:08
Excellent. I'll come and seek you out.
Graham
Can't miss me. I'm the dirty bugger with the fire and lots of knives :lmao:
Can't miss me. I'm the dirty bugger with the fire and lots of knives :lmao:
and a 'kin big Dog :D :lmao:
Dave Budd
26-09-2007, 15:43
and a 'kin big Dog :D :lmao:
what d'ya mean big? He's only a puppy! :D ok now 17 months old and nearly 30" to the shoulder :lmao:
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/buddknives1/saxenposenet.jpg
Ok chaps - if we're going to meet at the Woodfair which day should we make it, Saturday or Sunday? I can do both, but am off to Aldershot on Saturday evening to see Mearsy on his current tour.
Dave Budd
30-09-2007, 09:10
I'll let the others decide. Once I get there on friday night I shan't be leavingthe place until the show is well and truely over! :D
If it looks like I'm running late, just come and get me ;)
If you havent found it heres the website
http://www.woodfair.org.uk/index.html
its 20/ 21st October
im currently Clear for both days
ATB
Duncan
on meet ups the fair may not be every ones cup of tea and you have to pay to get in
looking on the map and plotting a few locations
Bere Regis seems to be centralish but i have no idea on a good pub for a evening etc
then we can look to a bimble etc
ATB
Duncan
I'm not sure which day I'm going yet. It clashes with things on both days, so it depends which of the others becomes easiest to rearrange. Let me know the details and I'll see what I can do.
G
on meet ups the fair may not be every ones cup of tea and you have to pay to get in
looking on the map and plotting a few locations
Bere Regis seems to be centralish but i have no idea on a good pub for a evening etc
then we can look to a bimble etc
ATB
Duncan
There are 2 pubs in Bere Regis , The best one by far has to be the Royal Oak .
Not that i am sure if i can get to the wood fair yet , but is it worth meeting up and said pub ? That way we should at least recognise faces at the fair . I can do this weekend as mothers got the kids . I will give the landlord a bell if theres enough of us up for it , we may get the skittle ally !
Cheers
Pumbaa
There are 2 pubs in Bere Regis , The best one by far has to be the Royal Oak .
Not that i am sure if i can get to the wood fair yet , but is it worth meeting up and said pub ? That way we should at least recognise faces at the fair . I can do this weekend as mothers got the kids . I will give the landlord a bell if theres enough of us up for it , we may get the skittle ally !
Cheers
Pumbaa
I'm busy every weekend for a few weeks now, so won't be able to meet up, unless its at the woodfair. As I said I'm not sure which day I'll be going yet, but I'll make sure I'm wearing my BCUK badge somewhere about my person ;) so if you see me then do come and say hello. I'll also try and seek out Dave Budd whilst I'm there.
Cheers
G
Dave Budd
03-10-2007, 11:10
I could only do the woodfair myself too. I don't have a weekend off now until the end of November :( My own fault I keep trying to run courses! :D
Rightho. My domestics now dictate that I'll be at the Cranborne Woodfair on Saturday the 20th. If any of you are there too on that day I'll meet you at Dave Budd's stand at 10:30.
Failing that, somebody suggest an evening in a pub somewhere in the Blandford/Bere Regis/Milton Abbas area.
should still be going
im limited to Saturday now as well
ATB
Duncan
I'll be there on Sunday if anyone else is. I need to dig a friend out of a hole on Saturday. Not sure what time I'll be around, but if you see a fat bloke wandering around looking lost wearing a BCUK badge, that'll be me:D
G
Dave Budd
15-10-2007, 13:44
I'll be there on Sunday if anyone else is. I need to dig a friend out of a hole on Saturday. Not sure what time I'll be around, but if you see a fat bloke wandering around looking lost wearing a BCUK badge, that'll be me:D
G
that describes about a third of the people I saw at the wilderness gathering! :lmao:
Rightho. My domestics now dictate that I'll be at the Cranborne Woodfair on Saturday the 20th. If any of you are there too on that day I'll meet you at Dave Budd's stand at 10:30.
I'm going to be there on Saturday too. I'll try and be there at 10:30 (getting up in time allowing).
would i be right in thinking that the woodfair is tomorrow ?
Pumbaa
Yep - it's tomorrow and sunday
Oh b****r , got the kids , will have to see if mother fancys her granddaughters .
Pumbaa
I wrangled having my kids on Sunday. Good luck.
Dave Budd
22-10-2007, 08:29
Well, that was a rather pleasant weekend :)
Good to see some of the folk from here managed to get to the show and even find me! Though you were rather like ships in the night: the largest group of BCUK members I saw was 3! :rolleyes:
I think that the Cranborne Cahse Woodfair will be a regular event since this one went so well :)
Good to see you there yesterday Dave, and $orryI wasn't able to meet up with the rest of you on Saturday. Did you manage to sell the necklace scrolly thing?
I thought the fair was excellent - lots of different things aimed at different groups of people, and well organised. The longbow demonstration was amazing, although I thought his first arrow was going to pierce the bonnet of one of the cars ;)
I've been to the South West Woodfair in Exeter a couple of times, but that's much more of a trade show than a fair. All-in-all A Grand Day Out :) I'll definitely be back.
G
well managed to get there eventually on sat morning and found Palmnut :D
think we missed Mace later on :(
was very good sort of what you would expect from and olden day town fair as such lots of local produce and crafts and lots of pole lathes etc old tool stores Dave even sharpened a couple of Choppers bought there i think
definatly a Nice lack of the usual Tat commercial stands you usually get :D
comedy bring your own Dog show and Spot the Falcon that flew off from the arena :lmao:
havent seen Log Chopping in an arena for many years including going up with the planks to chop the top off (I remember that was a racing sport on the telly years ago )
some big blokes with Big axes and huge logs :D very shiny very sharp
Adams Axemen from Dorset
Thought Red was there as the Chainsaw carver was doing some kin Big Acorns from 30" oak :eek:
Even got a free energy saving light bulb
Which was Nice :D
ATB
Duncan
appologies for not getting to the fair , it would have been cool to meet up with a few more BCUkers.
Mothers decided to have the kids this weekend coming , so anybody fancy a bimble ? Or maybe a spot of geocaching ? There are quite a few in wareham forest .
Pumbaa
appologies for not getting to the fair , it would have been cool to meet up with a few more BCUkers.
Mothers decided to have the kids this weekend coming , so anybody fancy a bimble ? Or maybe a spot of geocaching ? There are quite a few in wareham forest .
Pumbaa
wareham forest sounds good to me :)
well managed to get there eventually on sat morning and found Palmnut :D
think we missed Mace later on :(
We did miss each other - mostly to me being blind as a bat (honestly I can spot tiny insects and deer tracks but I missed a whole stand!!!). I did have a good time - the weather was superb.
Well I will be off to the moots later in the year so I'll see everybody then I'm sure.
Here's a funny thing - I've never met Dave before and not looked at his piccy on his site. So I'm thinking - iron working - forges - anvils - picture of some huge Thor like blacksmith... erm.... whoops... :rolleyes: (Hope you're not too upset there Dave :D )
Dave Budd
22-10-2007, 13:44
That's OK Mace, lots of people are suprised (and prolly disapointed) that I'm not a grizzled old man built like a brick s**t house :rolleyes: I'm giving a beard a go if that helps at all? :lmao:
As FGYT says, the Woodfair was a nice woodcraft related show. I only go to PROPER craft shows if I can help it. By proper I mean not the doily-craft fairs with lots of cards and naff bits of bought in spoons dressed in lace and burnt with flower pictures :yuck: There are a growing number of Woodfairs now. I normally go to the South West Forest main event at Rodeford Lake (was at taunton this year though) and the Stock Gaylard Oak fair near Sherborn. Both are bigger than the Cranborne Chase one (this was it's first) but no less fun, infact they organisers got most of us from teh demonstrators list from the SW Woodfair ;)
I didn't sell the scrolly necklace thing, nor much else really :( I did a fair bit of sharpening over the weekend though. Amazing how many people bought refurbished axes and things (with "Warning:SHARP!!" labels) and then came over to me to have them sharpened :D
Did you sell that nice little pretty knife though? I had to keep my hands very securely away from my wallet when I saw that one.
A good morning out, only ruined by my nearly-5-year-old daughter deciding to cut off her sister's hair and the ensuing panic-distress phone call from the wife summoning me home to help sort out the after shocks.
Might be able to make a bimble next w.e., but I've not been told which day I'm free to live yet - somebody name a place, a day and a time and I'll open negotiations ;-)
Sunday is probably better for me . Got a kids birthday party to attend on the saturday night !!! :eek:
Oh , and if your scared of big dogs , do let me know and i wont bring the bacon hunter !
Pumbaa
Fraid I can't do anything this weekend or next. Got a big birthday coming up, and I've got parties to attend :D :beerchug: :present:
G
Dave Budd
24-10-2007, 20:12
Palmnut, I still have that pretty little knife ;) lots of people seem to like it, just not enough sadly :rolleyes: Shame you got called away though.
This is all looking pretty good: I'm moving to Dorset at the end of April and it seems there is quite a scene there. I'll be somewhere near Blandford/Poole/Salisbury - not sure yet.
Looking forward to meeting a few BCUKers - geocaching sounds good Pumbaa - I've never done it before, and I must talk to FYGT about diving at Portland too.
Can't wait!
This is all looking pretty good: I'm moving to Dorset at the end of April and it seems there is quite a scene there.
You will be seeing England at her best - this place can be stunningly beautiful in the right light. I love living in the middle of so much history up here on the border too - can't move for some archaeological site or another.
It just seems to be a bit difficult getting any of us (or the Wiltshire mob, apparently) off our sit-upons to actually get any meetups going. In my case it's generally because the wife and kids seem to want me around at weekends for some reason - could be 'cos the day job is taking me away quite a bit at the mo.
My winter project (ash [nearly] flat-bow) is just about complete in the garage though; the sun is shining (let's not talk about the coming weekend); the leaves are appearing and I'm still failing to get a good photo of the deer that live in the coppice 200m from where I'm typing now: so who knows.
What I want now is somebody to teach me how to knap a flint arrow-head. That would get me out. Any takers?
Ha! I'm here at last! Beautiful area.
Based in Lytchett Matravers (about 4-5 miles from Poole).
Have heard there's some good outdoor fairs (and 'fayres' for ye olde ones amongst us). What are the best outdoors/bushcraft events within the area then? I throught there was something bushmooty happening in South Wilts on an annual basis?
Dave Budd
18-06-2008, 19:29
prolly thinkin of the Wilderness Gathering in august, it's in East (?) knoyle. Lots of trae stands, demos, short classes and drinking :D I've been tehre (in a professional position) for teh last couple of years.
Doodaman
25-06-2008, 21:55
I've just done my first bushcraft course and loved it. The only weekend rain for ages of course. Based in Bournemouth would like to meet up whenever possible. Is there a regular meet or something in the area. Can make the Wilderness Gathering one day as well.
Ha! I'm here at last! Beautiful area.
Based in Lytchett Matravers (about 4-5 miles from Poole).
Have heard there's some good outdoor fairs (and 'fayres' for ye olde ones amongst us). What are the best outdoors/bushcraft events within the area then? I throught there was something bushmooty happening in South Wilts on an annual basis?
G day Im in L Matravers Weekly on tuesday as i have an allotment there with a mate in the village (who dives ;) and fishes) diving was great of swanage on monday under the pier and out on the Kayara (30m wreck) Spidercrab for tea :D
ATB
Duncan
British Red
25-06-2008, 23:11
Don't go to the WG though
There was right weird sort there last year in pink DPM
Red
Desert cammos perhaps very chic.
Desert cammos perhaps very chic.
nope i was definaly in a Pink Camo Top
http://members.aol.com/FGYT/Practical_rifle/FGYTm16.jpg
Rambo type manly pick used to try and counter the Pink :eek: :lmao:
was desert (92 gulf) issue but the purple Dye i used has faded the wrong way :D
ATB
Duncan
British Red
26-06-2008, 12:55
Told yah!
(how you doing Dunc? Got some new toys if you want to play at the range soon)
Hi ,
Anybody going to the outdoor lifestyle fair ? Its on the 4th -6th July . Appologies for the short notice , but ive only just found out about it . Going to drag the kids and the new girlfriend over for the day on saturday .
Link (http://www.outdoorlifestyleshow.co.uk/)
If anyone fancys meeting up and finding the beer tent (hence dragging the girlfriend along LOL) , just shout .
Take care
Pumbaa
ive seen the bill boards for the show around but didn't twig where it was as its only 5 miles away :D (makes a change from London or NEC ) we will be there on Saturday as well
ATB
Duncan