I think we might have gone cross-porpoises there Legs. I wasn't quoting your quote, more riffing further on the pitfalls of mis-labelling something an adventure .
As ever, I've now confused myself too, so I'll get my coat .
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- Mon May 13, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Missing the point?
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- Mon May 13, 2024 4:41 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Missing the point?
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Re: Missing the point?
"focus group" meeting before you know it if you're not careful! :grin: Or a "workshop" :smile: .. Shades of HHGTTG: 'We've got to find out what people want from fire[/adventure], how they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them.' The crowd were tense. They were expectin...
- Mon May 13, 2024 3:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Missing the point?
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Re: Missing the point?
just a pacamac and a banana Fairly sure there's more than a few BB200 entrants who'd take this approach if Stu didn't mandate minimum equipment. Rather like a banana can be dangerous in certain circumstances (" go on, come at me with that banana then" - M Python), so can downgrading impor...
- Mon May 13, 2024 11:03 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Missing the point?
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Re: Missing the point?
'an adventure trail' or 'adventure/gravel' means more people understand what it is. Nah, just the opposite, it's just left a trail (ho ho) of confusion in its wake. Up is down and down is up. Or possibly sideways. Goodness knows what yer visitor centre punter makes of it. Maybe we should stand at t...
- Mon May 13, 2024 10:53 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Missing the point?
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Re: Missing the point?
Awooga. Digression Alert: I note that Mounty has sold an AK Tarpstar shelter round in Classifieds. Looks like a perfectly reasonable bit of gear, no problems with it at all, all fair and square. However I would offer that it is also as misnamed as an 'Adventure' bimbly gravel path round a visitor ce...
- Sun May 12, 2024 7:32 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: WRT 2024: Tall Tales and Dirty Deeds
- Replies: 9
- Views: 467
- Sat May 11, 2024 9:01 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Mrs P vaguely watching EuroV in the background. I've not been able to ascertain why. But I'm stuck with it too. It's all rubbish! No tunes to any of them, lot of shouting, lot of tedious repetitive beats, each set sounds exactly the same to poor old Reg. Where's the Macc Lads when you need them eh? ...
- Fri May 10, 2024 4:57 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you drinking now?
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- Fri May 10, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you drinking now?
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- Fri May 10, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: All Weather Tarp Setups/Photos
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Re: All Weather Tarp Setups/Photos
Bit of a tarp fanatic here, so I'll add penn'orth too. I don't use a tent. Or a bivvy bag. However my tarps are larger than most on here - 9 x 7 and 10 x 8 - so no need to faff or add weight with a bivvy bag. My config of choice is the flying diamond, or flying V as some would call it. Very very fas...
- Thu May 09, 2024 6:05 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: WRT 2024: Tall Tales and Dirty Deeds
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- Views: 467
- Thu May 09, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: WRT 2024: Tall Tales and Dirty Deeds
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- Views: 467
Re: WRT 2024: Tall Tales and Dirty Deeds
Apart from the weather going horribly wrong that was a nice WRT. The locations of the GRs meant that there was lots of the renowned WRT “bumping into other riders at random” which is one of my favourite aspects. Our LHC-B group gathered together and off we went, having lost a couple of players, but ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
As per WRT....
5/5, 5/12, 102/102
5/5, 5/12, 102/102
- Mon May 06, 2024 6:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Water Filter
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- Views: 463
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:29 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
- Replies: 64
- Views: 5749
Re: WRT GR's
And if you're in the Wynnstay tonight, have a Poretti and a pickled egg for me please will you? If that gets taken literally and everyone has an egg, along with a beer, please can someone ensure nobody strikes a match afterwards? Not there tonight sadly, but would like the building to still be ther...
- Thu May 02, 2024 2:56 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
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- Views: 5749
Re: WRT GR's
Train booked. All set for some, er........ adventure
- Thu May 02, 2024 8:52 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What is ádventure?
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Re: What is ádventure?
What's down that track? as an example. Having something planned to the enth degree simply limits the possibility of adventure. Yep. And I'll refer back to my point about imagination being required with old computer games. Imagination equally applies to adventure. Following a pre-set line or a fixed...
- Wed May 01, 2024 10:07 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What is ádventure?
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Re: What is ádventure?
ádventure guaranteed Oxymoron. Adventure requires an element of the unknown, there are no guarantees. :wink: Agreed :-bd "No guarantee of return". That's adventure for you :wink: . I'll remember that this weekend :smile: . Anyroad, never mind all that, "Adventure" was in fact th...
- Wed May 01, 2024 2:58 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Very nice our Neil, welcome to The Tarp Side . Once tarped, never returned.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:38 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Frey Bentos steak and kidney pie Blimey do they still exist?! I remember them from the 1970s when I was a kid. All you needed to add there was an Angel Delight pud for the full 70s experience. Using a stainless steel billy with ceramic baking beads I was able to fashion a makeshift oven Impressive....
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:47 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
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- Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:33 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Enjoyed that Phil. Would be a bit un-nerving coming across those mannequins in the dark though, especially after a few beers. "Greetings madam. May I interest you in an evening of fun and frolics?".
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Just me? Just you :grin: . After many years doing voluntary wardening for a chunk of our local river and brook, Anglia Water requested a bit of (free) help surveying all the outfalls and tributaries. Yeah go on then. Spent the morning wading two miles of the brook with my chum Ruth noting all the o...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
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- Views: 5749
Re: WRT GR's
that's where my local knowledge dries up. That sounds like an ideal situation to me :smile: . From that point onwards... "feel the force" ... it's when the real adventure starts :-bd I'm not quite the random shed connoisseur you are :grin: We all have it in us, sometimes just takes a litt...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The pickled egg (and other bar snacks) thread
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Re: The pickled egg (and other bar snacks) thread
Having indeed been in said Black Lion at the time the crime occurred, after some consideration I would say that pickled eggs are probably a treat best enjoyed solo. Possibly in a hermetically sealed room .