N.E.Scotland meet ( Glen Tanar)

[kiltedpict]

Likewise folks- had a brilliant weekend- glad we were packing up yesterday and nae today- absolutely persisting down!

Great to put faces to Avatars. Chris- sorry, didn't see you to say bye!

Roll on September!

[Pandabean]

Great weekend, great to see some new faces along at the meet.

Can't wait for the next one.

I will get the pics up later.

[nickliv]

Here's a link to the recipe for the pheasant dish we had on the Saturday night. I can't wait until the next meet, you've all given me a lot to think about and try in the meantime.

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90187

[Pandabean]

Hope the finger heals well.

[nickliv]

doing just fine now thanks. I'm bidding on a set of chainmail gloves for the next meet.

[mousey]

Awww, sounds like all you had great fun.

unforseen circumstances conspired against me and so I was unable to get down looking forward to some pic's though...

[charleslockerbie]

Yet another great meet, thanks craig(cbj) for organising and thanks to glen tanar estate for letting us have fun.

[Chance]

Sixthing the thanks to Chief BCUK-NES (there'll be an anagram in there).

[Chance]

Another use for a parachute: as an indicator of temperature/pressure. In this illustration, showing a low relative pressure within the parachute; as distinct from its evening billow.

Or the frost's weighing it down.

[Chance]

CBJ, link to constellation-finder: http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=60805

[nickliv]

Sixthing the thanks to Chief BCUK-NES (there'll be an anagram in there).

That's not a refugee camp in centre of shot. That was my 'house'

Great to meet you all, thanks to Craig, and Glen Tanar for sorting and allowing the meet. I'm off tomorrow to buy gaffer tape and copper pipe. Or am I?

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[Chance]

I'm off tomorrow to buy gaffer tape and copper pipe. Or am I?

It's perfectly acceptable to make an improvised bugle to herald your Dutch pheasant (that's not slang; at least, I hope it isn't).
And it's amazing how well a duck tape mute works.

[Pandabean]

Adze, I think you left your cramp balls behind, we found them whilst we were packing away on Sunday after you left.

[Adze]

No worries Andy - keep 'em or divvy them up and share them around if anyone wants them. I know where there's a few likely spots for them around here and IIRC they're not common up your way.

The good news is I found the Hultafors knife I'd lost. It was, as predicted, at the bottom of my pack covered up by too much paracord

Cheers!

[CBJ]

No worries chaps

Thanks to you all for coming and making the meet a success. I had a great time.

I will try to get my pics up on the other thread today at some point.

Oh 1 other thing that was found was a thin strap so if anybody has lost one let me know.

atb

Craig

[Pandabean]

I think Fraser or Craig took the Cramp Balls. You are right they are very rare up this way, they seem to favour the warmer climes of down south.

Did you find that other knife of yours? We didn't find one whilst packing up.

Thanks again Craig for organising it......time now to start planning the next one?

[Adze]

Did you find that other knife of yours? We didn't find one whilst packing up.

The good news is I found the Hultafors knife I'd lost. It was, as predicted, at the bottom of my pack covered up by too much paracord

Certainly did!

[nickliv]

Fingers on the mend. Just a fairy princess elastoplast on it now.

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[Chance]

It's perfectly acceptable to make an improvised bugle to herald your Dutch pheasant (that's not slang; at least, I hope it isn't).
And it's amazing how well a duck tape mute works.

I wonder if anyone else following the meet has had the same woodworm problems as KiltedPict noticed in his wooden crate?
I've since had a report from another attendee of a hole in a piece of 4x2 which, measured using a nail, was 18mm deep.
Bugling, for some reason, appears to encourage proliferation.


(earlier evidence in tongue-and-groove)

[Pandabean]

I can find no evidence of woodworm yet. Although I have had a super-mouse problem in the loft, a massive piece of cylindrical metal was moved.

[Adze]

I wonder if anyone else following the meet has had the same woodworm problems as KiltedPict noticed in his wooden crate?
I've since had a report from another attendee of a hole in a piece of 4x2 which, measured using a nail, was 18mm deep.
Bugling, for some reason, appears to encourage proliferation.


(earlier evidence in tongue-and-groove)

I appear to have discovered a new strain...



...all I can say is 'POTATOES!'

[Chance]

Good shot!
Apart being a little out-of-focus.

[CBJ]

HAHAHA those bugle worms are on the increase.

Great stuff

atb

Craig

[bronskimac]

doing just fine now thanks. I'm bidding on a set of chainmail gloves for the next meet.

Blade safety gloves http://www.arco.co.uk/products/14G56...m+Coated+Glove . I went for Kevlar gloves from somewhere else.

[nickliv]

Kevlar gloves obtained. I am keen not to test them though.

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[Adze]

While protective gear can be a good idea... it's never as good as protective gear and using the tool in the correct manner!

[nickliv]

Spot on. Anyone else had a go at the cider?

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[Chance]

While protective gear can be a good idea... it's never as good as protective gear and using the tool in the correct manner!

Is this the point at which I say "a blunt knife is safer than a sharp one"... and sit back and count the posts until someone compares me to [insert dictator of choice]?

And nickliv, it's irresponsible to encourage the mixture of cider and sharps; with or without Kevlar or Dyneema.

[Chance]

Spot on. Anyone else had a go at the cider?

No to cider. We did just make nettle soup thickened with pignut, to go with beech/lime/hawthorn/ramson/dandelion salad; but it didn't last long enough to ferment.

Prompted by your question, I've gone and found where Mrs Chance had been hiding last year's, thankfully unexploded, seabuckthornade. Without tasting it (being TT), how can I tell if that's the smell of carbon dioxide or fizzy vinegar?

CO2 being famously acetic in its odour.

[nickliv]

Stand the unopened bottle in a bowl with a lit tealight in it, and see if the tealight gutters when you open it?

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