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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 14:05:09 GMT
No. You have to share your accommodation with a wild animal. Hence the word "wild". There is a size limit - the animal must be larger than a domestic cat.
Makes the camping more interesting and competitive apparently.
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Post by bills on Jan 4, 2018 14:14:49 GMT
OK - so you need pitch your tent over the entrance to a badger sett or something. That makes sense.
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Post by patty on Jan 4, 2018 14:30:42 GMT
OK - so you need pitch your tent over the entrance to a badger sett or something. That makes sense. good luck with that one...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 14:52:00 GMT
Or share your tent with a Fox
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Post by thebfg on Jan 4, 2018 15:22:00 GMT
Is that what we used to call "camping"? Bit of ground, tent, primus stove, bush to pee in, that sort of thing? [br Yeah except there is normally no tent. Sometimes no stove.
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Post by bills on Jan 4, 2018 15:29:37 GMT
Is that what we used to call "camping"? Bit of ground, tent, primus stove, bush to pee in, that sort of thing? [br Yeah except there is normally no tent. Sometimes no stove. That sounds more like seeping rough.
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Post by bargemast on Jan 4, 2018 16:09:12 GMT
[br Yeah except there is normally no tent. Sometimes no stove. That sounds more like seeping rough. And maybe even sleeping rough too. Peter.
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Post by patty on Jan 4, 2018 18:56:49 GMT
Is that what we used to call "camping"? Bit of ground, tent, primus stove, bush to pee in, that sort of thing? [br Yeah except there is normally no tent. Sometimes no stove. . Much as I like a challenge I don’t think I will add that to my list ....
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Post by dyertribe on Jan 4, 2018 18:58:46 GMT
I do silversmithing, got my own hallmark and everything Wow that is interesting and different. What sort of pieces do you do? All sorts really, I can’t figure how to post pictures off my iPad, I’ll try tomorrow in work. I’ve been doing a lot with copper recently as I’ve been playing with patina, I’ve made some nice (well I think so!) cuffs. I’m now making them in silver. I make rings, I especially like spinner rings where you have a ring on top of a ring which moves. I’m learning different stone setting techniques at the moment, some of which are very frustrating! My avatar is an early pendant I made.
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Post by dyertribe on Jan 4, 2018 19:00:26 GMT
I'd like to have a go at silversmithing, my friend does it and makes some amazing pieces. My only jewellery efforts have been wrapping wood around silver rings. I stopped when I moved onto my boat as the wood dust got everywhere. I often used rings that I'd found in the sea with my metal detector, which was my other hobby, searching in the sea for lost jewellery. Metal detecting was a fun and lucrative hobby when I lived in Spain. I persisted for a while when I moved to the UK, but searching for hours in a cold muddy field and finding fuck all wasn't quite as enjoyable as diving in the Mediterranean finding gold/silver. Those are lovely! We can go into business, I’ll make the silver rings, you do the wood ones!
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Post by thebfg on Jan 4, 2018 19:16:14 GMT
[br Yeah except there is normally no tent. Sometimes no stove. That sounds more like seeping rough. No. We either just make a tarp into some sort of shelter or mainly go swinging in the trees. I do have a 1 man tent and a selection of 3 men tents depending if we'e just out local or up in the hills or mountains and the time of year of course. And for cooking.
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Post by patty on Jan 4, 2018 20:12:14 GMT
I'd like to have a go at silversmithing, my friend does it and makes some amazing pieces. My only jewellery efforts have been wrapping wood around silver rings. I stopped when I moved onto my boat as the wood dust got everywhere. I often used rings that I'd found in the sea with my metal detector, which was my other hobby, searching in the sea for lost jewellery. Metal detecting was a fun and lucrative hobby when I lived in Spain. I persisted for a while when I moved to the UK, but searching for hours in a cold muddy field and finding fuck all wasn't quite as enjoyable as diving in the Mediterranean finding gold/silver. Those are lovely! We can go into business, I’ll make the silver rings, you do the wood ones! That sounds good plan to me.....
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Post by phil70 on Jan 4, 2018 22:11:00 GMT
At one time I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time working round Hatton Garden. The company I worked for made a bit of kit for gold/ silver/platinum etc etc electro plating. A small power pack with a lead to connect to the workpiece plus another lead that fitted in what was a felt tip pen containing the electrolyte. The jewellers used these to "illusion plate" ring settings . I would be in a "factory" (a single room) and a geezer would come in and ask if they wanted anything today, a response of "a kilo would have the geezer reach inside his coat to one of dozens of pockets and pull out 4 x 1/4 kg bars of gold and off he would go, no money or paperwork changed hands Another geezer come in same procedure except this time it would be diamonds a selection would be made and as before off he would toddle. The guys worked at benches with half moon cut outs with leather apron attached which was worn so nothing fell to the floor. Even the polishing mops had extractor so every grain of gold was recovered. When one of these buildings was sold they were gutted and all the floor boards treated to recover all the gold ground into the wood, the basements were vacuumed within an inch of their life to recover all the gold dust that had percolated down. These buildings fetch well over the market price Phil
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Post by thebfg on Jan 4, 2018 22:13:53 GMT
Those are lovely! We can go into business, I’ll make the silver rings, you do the wood ones! That sounds good plan to me..... It does, they certainly are nice.
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Post by dyertribe on Jan 4, 2018 22:35:51 GMT
At one time I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time working round Hatton Garden. The company I worked for made a bit of kit for gold/ silver/platinum etc etc electro plating. A small power pack with a lead to connect to the workpiece plus another lead that fitted in what was a felt tip pen containing the electrolyte. The jewellers used these to "illusion plate" ring settings . I would be in a "factory" (a single room) and a geezer would come in and ask if they wanted anything today, a response of "a kilo would have the geezer reach inside his coat to one of dozens of pockets and pull out 4 x 1/4 kg bars of gold and off he would go, no money or paperwork changed hands Another geezer come in same procedure except this time it would be diamonds a selection would be made and as before off he would toddle. The guys worked at benches with half moon cut outs with leather apron attached which was worn so nothing fell to the floor. Even the polishing mops had extractor so every grain of gold was recovered. When one of these buildings was sold they were gutted and all the floor boards treated to recover all the gold ground into the wood, the basements were vacuumed within an inch of their life to recover all the gold dust that had percolated down. These buildings fetch well over the market price Phil When in Birmingham go to the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, it costs about £7 and is a fascinating insight into the Jewellery industry, when the owners retired in 1980 they just shut the doors, it is just as they left it.
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