West Mdlands Meet - Summer'08

[decorum]

When is it first OK to turn up on Friday?

There'll be someone on site from 10 a.m.

I have a book for you, if you want it (free).
'Hero Myths & Legends of the British Race' by M.I.Ebbutt

Published by George G. Harrap & Company in 1912.

[Wayland]

Thanks for the offer but I've already got a copy, it was reprinted in paperback a few years ago.

There's some good stuff in it, someone else might be interested.

[Thunderbeard]

Decorum I may have an extra person attending either friday or saturday night, unconfirmed as yet

decorum + poss 1 extra - ground dwelling for this one.
Mesquite + 2 extra - Tarp.
maverick - hammock.
Bootstrap Bob - tarp and bivvi,
Wallenstein - tent.
Scrumpy - Scrumpy jr - Hammocks.
Woodstock + Mrs Woodstock + tent and -hammock.
T1tch - hammock.
Cobweb+Bramble+2 (if possible/real life allowing - confirm once date is set).
Wayland - Hammock + Mega tarp again.
Bodge + 2 or 3 or 4 - tents hammocks and tarps and kitchen sinks.
corr - tarp - hope so.
PJMcBear - Hammock.
WhichDoctor - Tent.
Dingo + 2 hammock & tent.
EEM tent (one night) -
Thunderbeard - Hammock. + possibly 1 - tent
shaggystu + 1 - tarp and bivvis
Xylaria + tribe (2 adults+2children in all)

[decorum]

Decorum I may have an extra person attending either friday or saturday night, unconfirmed as yet


Not a problem.


I've corrected the Meet list to account for ill health, injuries and unfortunate coincidences.

Meet List:

Addo - Hammock & tarp (one night).
Andy2112 +1
Bodge + 2 or 3 or 4 - tents hammocks and tarps and kitchen sinks.
Bootstrap Bob - tarp and bivvi,
Bushcraft Bailey - Hammock (Poss +1).
Cobweb+Bramble+2 (if possible/real life allowing - pending possible work).
corr - tarp - hope so.
decorum - ground dwelling for this one (+ poss 1 extra).
Dingo + 2 hammock & tent.
EEM tent (one night).
Gwhtbushcraft + dad - hammocks.
maverick - hammock.
Mesquite + 2 extra - Tarp.
PJMcBear - Hammock.
Wallenstein - tent.
Scrumpy - Scrumpy jr - Hammocks.
Thunderbeard - Hammock. + possibly 1 - tent
Wayland - Hammock + Mega tarp again.
WhichDoctor - Tent - may not be there - reserve list for shooting may now apply. EDIT - underlined to draw the attention of some one who may wish to participate.
Woodstock - tent/hammock?
Xylaria + tribe (2 adults+2children in all)

[Dingo]

Going to have to pull out of the meet i'm afraid, one of our Dogs has had an operation and is not doing very well, its nothing life threatening, he's had his 'BITS' off, but the area has all swollen and he is paying a lot of attention to it! poor guy i dont think he's realised they are no longer there, he is very subdued and the wound is not healing so i dont want to leave him with our eldest as he doesnt cope with things very well, except when it directly affects HIS 'freetime' i am going to try and pop down in the day as my daughter wants to meet up with Bodges lot again and i can also pay for my raffle tickets, so hopefully i will see you guys tomorrow just a shame i cant stay:(

[Bodge]

Going to have to pull out of the meet i'm afraid, one of our Dogs has had an operation and is not doing very well, its nothing life threatening, he's had his 'BITS' off, but the area has all swollen and he is paying a lot of attention to it! poor guy i dont think he's realised they are no longer there, he is very subdued and the wound is not healing so i dont want to leave him with our eldest as he doesnt cope with things very well, except when it directly affects HIS 'freetime' i am going to try and pop down in the day as my daughter wants to meet up with Bodges lot again and i can also pay for my raffle tickets, so hopefully i will see you guys tomorrow just a shame i cant stay:(

Ouch. Poor thing.
I'd better not tell liv about this, I'll keep quiet till it's too late:puppy_dog
I'll see you over the w/end mate.

Bodge:)

[firecrest]

aw, I would have come if Id realised it was this weekend :(

[Gwhtbushcraft]

Thanks for a great meet All especially decorum for orginising it.
George
:)

[woodstock]

I am sitting here looking out of the window and what a glorious evening to nice to be indoors anyway really enjoyed the meet what a great bunch of people hope we do it again soon

[Mesquite]

Thanks for a great meet All especially decorum for orginising it.
George
:)

I'll second that. All the hard work that Decorum does in organising the meet makes it such a great time for all. Decorum./..... :You_Rock_ :You_Rock_


I am sitting here looking out of the window and what a glorious evening to nice to be indoors anyway really enjoyed the meet what a great bunch of people hope we do it again soon

Can't agree more, I throughly enjoyed myself and it was great seeing people again. Like Woodstock said, I hope we do it again real soon. :)

[decorum]

Thanks to all for a great weekend. I don't organise, I merely facilitate - thanks to all for making it so easy :You_Rock_ .

My aplolgies to those who didn't get to do the activities we'd booked and thanks for having patience and bearing with me whilst I was failing to get the problems sorted :o :(


Thankyou to George and 'George's Dad' for their kind generosity :You_Rock_

[Bootstrap Bob]

Just like to add my thanks to Decorum for this weekend's meet. :You_Rock_
An enjoyable first Midland's meet and I'm sure I'll be back.

Thanks to Woodstock too for the pigeon prep demo. :)

[decorum]

The final figure for the Midlands Meet BcUK raffle was £216.

Thank you to all those who donated and a special thank you to Bernie (http://www.berax.co.uk) who's extra-special donation (http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showpost.php?p=416034&postcount=176) made for an increasing air of suspense as the raffle drew towards its climax :D .

[Bodge]

The final figure for the Midlands Meet BcUK raffle was £216.

Thank you to all those who donated and a special thank you to Bernie (http://www.berax.co.uk) who's extra-special donation (http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showpost.php?p=416034&postcount=176) made for an increasing air of suspense as the raffle drew towards its climax :D .

Now that is fantastic news.
Great meet folks and a pleasure to meet new and familiar faces:)
Adam is once again in a very saddened state and was protesting as he stomped upstairs to bed.
Thanks to the stew people it was great, big thanks to decorum whom I missed and didn't get chance to say farewell to:bye: :bye:
didn't need my:umbrella: so its a bonus.

I look forward to the next one decorum:You_Rock_

I really do love the rough close site especially No 11.

Bodge:)

[decorum]

Forgot to say - Those who were lucky enough to walk away with a prize, we hope you enjoy them and congratulations to Mesquite - you lucky, lucky ... person :D .

shaggystu - we hope swmbo is beginning to heal; please give her our best.

Dingo - we hope the patient is doing well.

[Scrumpy]

Many thanks once again for a brilliant weekend, we will be back!! Great to catch up with you lot again and hopefully we will bump in to some of you at the moot.
Funny thing happened on the way home, battery died in the sat nav so I thought I could wing it easy enough, got thoroughly lost, realising I needed to go generally south to pick up the 45 back to the M1 I said to Oliver get out the compass you won in the raffle and got him to navigate me south and we picked up the way home after about 10 mins, saved me a lot of time messing about and taught him a lesson in how affective a compass can be even to a novice, great end to the weekend.
When is the next one Decorum???

[woodstock]

[QUOTE=Scrumpy;419869]Many thanks once again for a brilliant weekend, we will be back!! Great to catch up with you lot again and hopefully we will bump in to some of you at the moot.
said to Oliver get out the compass you won in the raffle and got him to navigate me south and we picked up the way home after about 10 mins, saved me a lot of time messing about and taught him a lesson in how affective a compass can be even to a novice,

Well done Olly thats how fate works Scrumpy good job you did.nt win the knife you could still be lost :D but with a cracking knife:)

[Bodge]

Well done Olly thats how fate works Scrumpy good job you did.nt win the knife you could still be lost :D but with a cracking knife:)

Yes every cloud has a silver lining:lmao:

Bodge

[Scrumpy]

Now thinking about it he gave away the compass he won, the one that got us home was the one you gave him, looks like I owe you a cider! I'll see you at the moot with some cider as payment and tie a rope all the way back to your hammock for you to follow, put pillows in the ditches and maybe leave some candles burning to make sure you make it back, you drunken bafoon, I would have loved to seen you, Wayland and Thunderbeard (maybe more?) stumbling around in random directions, Thunderbeard failing to get a grip of balance in a hammock and mud munching, Woodstock's multiple stumbles in such a short distance and wayland's turn right theory, still cant quite get a grasp on that one but after enough Westons I suppose it works!

[Wallenstein]

Wot a fantastic weekend :)

Had a top time, really enjoyed it... looking forward to the next one!

Thanks to Dec for the organisation, and everyone else who took the time to pass on their expertise - I have a whole new set of skills to practice now.

I'll post up some pics in the Out and About forum in the week - would be great to see any other pics people took.

[Bernie Garland]

Glad you all had a great time,and will see if i can make the next one,and perhaps bring a deer down for a skinning and a butchery demo,then a big scoff.

Bernie

[firecrest]

*sniff* Im really sorry I missed it now. I could have come to, if id checked the thread earlier.
Next one Ill be down , but i might have to cadge a lift off another northener.

[Bushcraft Bailey]

I have to say, that Charlotte and i thoroughly enjoyed the weekend, i am fairly new to this, and it was nice to sit round the fire with some good company learning new tricks and getting some ideas for next time.
Once again... thanks to Decorum for organising a great event.

[Wayland]

Ditto all of the above, great meet, great people and many thanks to Decorum for the visible and invisible work that goes into organising / facilitating a good meet up.

[Davey569]

i wished i could have made it, are there any ideas on the next one floating round yet?

[woodstock]

Glad you all had a great time,and will see if i can make the next one,and perhaps bring a deer down for a skinning and a butchery demo,then a big scoff.

Bernie

Jesus Bernie not a deer I was showing some of the guys the best way to de-breast a pigeon without a knife it translated back to the scout leaders I was pulling the heads of rabbits :yikes: god knows what would happen if they saw you skinning a deer :D
No that would be great

[woodstock]

Did anyone get any pics of the meet if you did are they posted anywhere

[Mesquite]

Did anyone get any pics of the meet if you did are they posted anywhere

Wallenstein was taking pics and I think he said he'll post them up in a couple of days.

[decorum]

Glad you all had a great time,and will see if i can make the next one,and perhaps bring a deer down for a skinning and a butchery demo,then a big scoff.

Bernie

:D


Jesus Bernie not a deer I was showing some of the guys the best way to de-breast a pigeon without a knife it translated back to the scout leaders I was pulling the heads of rabbits :yikes: god knows what would happen if they saw you skinning a deer :D
No that would be great

Hmm, just how do you rip the head off of a rabbit that isn't actually there? The complaint went to the site staff :yikes: . As far as I'm aware it's now been sorted out and laid to rest. As a bit of insurance in future I'll invite a few crew down who are interested in learning how to do it - there are plenty :D - it'll also further our relationship with the site :cool:


I have a whole new set of skills to practice now.

One of the best things about Meets is the inspiration that they can cause - followed by the frustration of finding the time to make the ideas 'real' :D


*sniff* Im really sorry I missed it now. I could have come to, if id checked the thread earlier.
Next one Ill be down , but i might have to cadge a lift off another northener.

You posted in the thread (mid June I think) that, at the time, you were already going to be busy.


i wished i could have made it, are there any ideas on the next one floating round yet?

Ideas are plentiful :D.


:o Note to all :o
I'll post up some pics in the Out and About forum in the week - would be great to see any other pics people took.

:o Please remember to crop/modify me out of the pics - thanks in advance :o

[Wallenstein]

:o Please remember to crop/modify me out of the pics - thanks in advance :oNo probs - I made sure you didn't get within range of my lens :)

I need to speak with a couple of the parents before I post pics with their kids in, but I'll have some up later tonight I hope.

[addo]

Cheers everyone for a great meet, decorum your a star.
Will make it down for the whole meet next time, hope to meet those of you at the moot that are going.
The stews were great thanks to all those involved, I'll try and bring some bunnies next time, and knock up a stew myself.

[xylaria]

That was a lovely meet, I am not used to camping in such good weather. Loved the curry. Thanks Decorum.


No probs - I made sure you didn't get within range of my lens :)

I need to speak with a couple of the parents before I post pics with their kids in, but I'll have some up later tonight I hope.

As long as they don't look like ill bred mutants, or drunken knife wielding weirdos, i don't mind piccies of my kids been put up.

[Wallenstein]

Pics here:

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?p=420187#post42 0187

:)

[decorum]

Thanks again to George and his Dad - It had a charging today and swmbo wants to borrow it when she goes away in a couple of weeks. http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/cool/cool0013.gif .

[WhichDoctor]

Looks like you all had a fab time, really sorry I couldn't come.

Can't wait for the next one *hint* *hint* :D

[Cobweb]

Aww, I really wish I could've come too, the wedding was fun though :) Hope to see you guys at the Moot!

[headrox_inc]

Hey all, how was the meet up? didnt get to frisky did it?

[Mesquite]

....... didnt get to frisky did it?

Frisky? as in?

[headrox_inc]

lol I duno, what you get up2? An enjoyable experiance?

[Bodge]

lol I duno, what you get up2? An enjoyable experiance?

You should try to get to the next meet to see how 'frisky' things get for yourself:D

frisk·y (frsk)
adj. frisk·i·er, frisk·i·est
Energetic, lively, and playful: a frisky kitten.

I think most people who attended would agree that there was an air of calm and serenity at the meet. Things to do if you wanted or chilling out to do if you prefered.

I personally spent far too long chasing my lad round with his flaming birch bark fire sword to do any of the above.:lmao:

HTH
Bodge:)

[Mesquite]

I personally spent far too long chasing my lad round with his flaming birch bark fire sword to do any of the above.:lmao:

I think he's in training to join the flaming torch wielding mob Bodge. Count yourself lucky you missed out on the flaming tree root he graduated to :D We did explain to him that was a tad too big to be wandering around with.

At least HE enjoyed himself and at the end of the day that's the best bit :)

[PJMCBear]

an air of calm and serenity at the meet.
HTH
Bodge:)

Sorry, what? Were you wearing earplugs all the time or what? I wasn't feeling calm and sereen at 5:30 in the morning. If it wasn't feral scouts it was the flipping birds.

[Andy2112]

Hi all,

Off work last week so no internet, hence no word from me !!

Just like to say what a great weekend it was with you guys, i came a stranger and left with new friends. Brilliant, can't wait to do it again (hint hint Decorum ???).

Did feel a bit like the Blair Witch project on sunday night as my mate wanted to go back to the car to get a blanket but unfortunately we got a bit disorientated (ok, lost) in the woods and ended up back at main camp, i told him to wear an extra t-shirt.

It's taken my camping to the next level.

A BIG thank you goes to Decorum for organising it all

Woodstock, cracking curry mate, i'm still talking about it.

The bannock boys, sorry can't remember your screen names but lovely bannocks lads, much was they enjoyed.

Overall i really enjoyed the weekend and i can't wait to do it again.

Thanks to everyone for making me feel really welcome.:D :D :D

[Mesquite]

Sorry, what? Were you wearing earplugs all the time or what? I wasn't feeling calm and sereen at 5:30 in the morning. If it wasn't feral scouts it was the flipping birds.

And the echoing cry of a Disgruntled Facilitator.... very rare beasties they are and very dangerous when disturbed :D


........ it was the flipping birds.

At least we didn't have that sodding cuckoo serenading us at 4:30 in the morning this time. Just crows and pigeons

[decorum]

And the echoing cry of a Disgruntled Facilitator.... very rare beasties they are and very dangerous when disturbed :D

And I kept it polite too :D . If I'd realised that it'd disturbed others I'd have http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/character/character0029.gif earlier - there were quite a few ramifications http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/fighting/fighting0080.gif.


At least we didn't have that sodding cuckoo serenading us at 4:30 in the morning this time. Just crows and pigeons

You get used to the crows - sometimes they finish so late and start so early that it's easy to believe that they don't take a break http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/scared/scared0012.gif. Believe it or not they're more 'active' up near the main field
http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/party/party0023.gif
It's cool when the pheasants walk through in the early hours though :cool: .

[headrox_inc]

well none the less its sounded like yuo had a really good weekend, count me in for the next one.

[woodstock]

http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/party/party0023.gif
It's cool when the pheasants walk through in the early hours though :cool: .[/QUOTE]

I missed them I must have been falling over at the time as for the rooks I have a very good recipe for rooks
:thinkerg:

[Andy2112]

get em in the pot mate !!!!!!:beerchug: