Cyclingrelf
15-07-2005, 22:25
I just discovered this forum whilst mooching around on Google.
I've been feeling rather alone as a bushcraft enthusiast in Coventry city centre - what a relief to find you folk. :)
I find my fellow Coventrians incomprehensible - they are suspicious even of the cherries on the municipal cherry trees, preferring to buy them at great expense from our local supermarkets. It is a slow and thankless process trying to educate them, and many of them find me equally incomprehensible! Ah well. My freezer is currently full of cherries, my stomach full of raspberries (a rather fortunate find!!) and I am keeping a close eye on the local hazelnut growth as well. The squirrels beat me to them last year.
Other aspects of bushcraft are more difficult to practice in this smoke-free zone, and I haven't yet gained permission and ventured into the surrounding woods alone (not for security reasons so much as general loneliness! I really ought to bite that bullet and just do it, but haven't plucked up courage yet. When I do, I shall be a confirmed mad hermit of the woods in the eyes of my Coventrian friends). I did bring some wood up from my parents farm in Cornwall on my last visit and succeeded in lighting a fire by bow-drill (woo hoo!) which I put out again because of the ban on fires :( I also have access to stinging nettles and rosebay willowherb to practice making string, But when it comes to cutting bits off trees (even if they are only little bits) I don't think it would go down very well. Especially in memorial park, where each tree was planted in memory of someone who died in the war. Ho hum!
Anyone else out there live in a city centre?
Any tips?
I don't have a car and can't really afford much travel. However, I can potentially make it to some woodland on my bicycle of a weekend.
I've been feeling rather alone as a bushcraft enthusiast in Coventry city centre - what a relief to find you folk. :)
I find my fellow Coventrians incomprehensible - they are suspicious even of the cherries on the municipal cherry trees, preferring to buy them at great expense from our local supermarkets. It is a slow and thankless process trying to educate them, and many of them find me equally incomprehensible! Ah well. My freezer is currently full of cherries, my stomach full of raspberries (a rather fortunate find!!) and I am keeping a close eye on the local hazelnut growth as well. The squirrels beat me to them last year.
Other aspects of bushcraft are more difficult to practice in this smoke-free zone, and I haven't yet gained permission and ventured into the surrounding woods alone (not for security reasons so much as general loneliness! I really ought to bite that bullet and just do it, but haven't plucked up courage yet. When I do, I shall be a confirmed mad hermit of the woods in the eyes of my Coventrian friends). I did bring some wood up from my parents farm in Cornwall on my last visit and succeeded in lighting a fire by bow-drill (woo hoo!) which I put out again because of the ban on fires :( I also have access to stinging nettles and rosebay willowherb to practice making string, But when it comes to cutting bits off trees (even if they are only little bits) I don't think it would go down very well. Especially in memorial park, where each tree was planted in memory of someone who died in the war. Ho hum!
Anyone else out there live in a city centre?
Any tips?
I don't have a car and can't really afford much travel. However, I can potentially make it to some woodland on my bicycle of a weekend.