north wood January 27-29 karls birthday bash with pics

[woodspirits]

hi all,
thank you to Karl for inviting me to your private unsheduled birthday bash at North Wood. :)

albeit a bit nippy on the night (for most of us, eh martin? :rolleyes: ) it was well recieved by everyone who got stuck in with the various activities arranged to keep us warm!. this included;

a bit of woodland maintenance in the form of cutting the ivy from some heavily encumbered trees before the wind took them, (and making hearth boards from them)
firewood collecting to maintain stocks for the communal fire,
general windfall tidying.

other things arranged or inpromptu,

target practice with air rifles,
hide flesching (Sal bought several deer hides in for preparation)
cooking class, Karl treated us all to a traditional South African dish, very nice too mate :)
Sal bought in a gorgeous home made chocolate cake for the greedy gits birthday :)
jason and Sam provided a full filleted salmon for us, which was lovely!
hazle wood coppicing.
bimble around organising forward planning schedules.

everone enjoyed their invite to Karls private birthday bash so once again buddy thank you for organising this meet :D
heres a few pictures...


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[TurboGirl]

Lovely pictures of a smashing weekend, Steve! Thanks very much for inviting me, Karl, and the absolutely super meal (FABULOUS salmon, J&S :)

Warm thanks to everyone for being so supportive of my mad weekend project too :)

[bojit]

Now thats a lot of pics ! Looks like you guys had a great weekend and the weather doesn't look too bad either , cheers for sharing .

Craig...........

[woodspirits]

thanks craig, yes it was a real nice weekend, :)

steve

[nodd]

looks like every one had a good time, I must admit to raising an eyebrow over the removal of the Ivy from trees from an ecological point of view. As this can be an important habitat and not usually needs doing in a woodland setting.

[woodspirits]

which is why we were selective, and only targeted the heaviest. its quite an open wood and the extra weight and wind resistance is bringing the bigger ash down. i too am very aware of the ecological standpoint, but thanks for your concern. and yes we had a great time :)

steve

[Twodogs]

Looks like a cracking weekend , nice one folks :)

[woodspirits]

thanks cliff, maybe see next time eh? :)

[persistent king]

fantastic pics

[woodspirits]

thanks PK, if ever your passing....do drop in youll be made most welcome :)

[nolightweight]

Yarrr.... Good pics, Steve. Nice one.

[TurboGirl]

I've stuck a thread with my pics on here... http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85622&p=1035095#post1035095 and theres a thread on my furry deerskin project here... http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85449 although I probably won't update that till tomorrow, am vastly in need of sleep now :) No doubt I'll be dreaming of your knee-high yellow eyed beastie and wierd orange lights..... ;)

[PREPER]

Excellent meet, top pics :)

[redandshane]

Looks good fun
Nice array of gear around

[Snarf]

Cracking pics Steve!


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[Elines]

what a fanatastic meet - glad it went well

[Karl82]

Thanks Steve for the pics and allowing me to use the woods.

Thanks to everyone for their gifts and food and for making it such a good weekend.

Karl

[Andy T]

Thanks Steve and Karl, i really enjoyed this meet. Atmosphere was great as usual and loved the banter around the fire. Can't wait to do it again, and spud let us know how you get on with your stick mate.

[sasquatch]

Thanks for sharing the pics Steve, great stuff!

[Simon H]

That Salmon looks good! Looks a great weekend.Sorry to not make it up Karl, hope you had a good one mate!

[Karl82]

No worries Simon will catch you at the next SS hopefully.

[cowboy]

Hi Karl, looks like you all had a great time for your Birthday bash! Im so gutted i couldnt make it!!! I just couldnt find the transport in the end! :(


catch up with you all at the next NW meet!!

Great job on the pictures too Steve, as always! :)

[MartinK9]

Double post.....

[rik_uk3]

Great stuff, really good.

[MartinK9]

OK..... Who won the Sweepstake? I was miles off by stating post # 10 :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

8540

Firstly many thanks to Karl for inviting me to his Birthday Meet, and to Steve for allowing use of the wood to hold it.

As Steve has covered all aspects I'll just add the Bithday Boy:

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Thanks to one and all for another great weekend.

[TinkyPete]

Looks like you had a great time and did loads.

I had a little play in some local woods to where I work on Sunday, but work on Saturday made sure I could make any home meets :(

Got a very busy start any most year in 2012 so do not know how many meets I will get to.

So will make the most of any I can

[Karl82]

no worries tinky dont work to hard and hope to see you at one soon.

The traditional SA meal was boerewors, mealie meal (pap) with onion and tomato sauce witch gets mixed in with the pap.

[Bodge]

You did well with the weather guys. I enjoyed my brief visit and wish I could of stayed longer.