I had a great weekend, I met with 15 members of my family for `Ladies weekend` in Anglesey in a small caravan. Its amazing we all fit, we mostly all had to sit outside. Its not often we all get together in one place. In between the drinking we looked for snakes and birdwatched, and hunted for pignuts which was unsuccesful. On saturday we went to a carboot sale where I picked up a 4 season gelert lynx 400 sleeping bag for 12 quid and a whole box of kid leather skins for a fiver.

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Horrible day today, so I stayed indoors and played with rope. Practiced the four plait from RM book, figured out how to splice the end into a loop, and promptly made myself a bracelet.  I was so impressed that I decided I needed a more tricky project. I have visited "slinging.org" in the past, and fancied a pop at making a braided sling.  There are instructions for different types on the site, and I ended up with a modified version of the "Sierra Nevada" sling.I

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