Living off the land 100%

[Stanley Edwards]

I don't put everything on my blog. Can't be arsed to, or don't have the time, battery, or WiFi. Much of what I post is retrospective. That includes posting here.

I could be in Madrid for all you lot know

 

[Stanley Edwards]

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"good people"

I am a very tolerant guy who sometimes gets caught out by his own naivety. Call it optimism and hope if you like.

 

[Pickman's model]

You should be man. It is fucking gorgeous. A future classic no doubt.

I hope you think as highly of it when you wake up tomorrow

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Can we talk about my new watch please. It cost a lot of money. Someone has to appreciate it?

 

[Stanley Edwards]

I hope you think as highly of it when you wake up tomorrow

Thank you.

I will polish it in the morning, and re-read all the numbers and hand written 5 year guarantee

 

[planetgeli]

I don't put everything on my blog. Can't be arsed to, or don't have the time, battery, or WiFi.

Aye, that'd be why you have 230 posts in this thread.

 

[Pickman's model]

Fuck off with the immature comments on my blog. That was just Five days of less than 40KM/day. That is about 8 Hours of hiking a day. With rest each 3 Hours it is a piece of piss even with a dodgy foot. You leave at sunrise (7AM), arrive at your destination by 6PM comfortably. Loads of daylight, and time to sort out cooking and somewhere to sleep. It really is a piece of piss.

Anyway...

Look at my beautiful new watch you fuckers. I can now tell Portuguese time even when my phone and laptop batteries are fucked.

It is made to the highest quality. Immaculately finished. Beautifully styled. It has all the right numbers and marks on the back. It is the first watch I have bought in almost 20 years. It replaces my Seiko pilots watch which went with my last backpack theft in Malaga last year after a 15+ year relationship.

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It will help me increase the price of my sketches by 30% - 40%.

I have realised that none of you sad losers want to learn what I have learned about surviving very healthily off the land whilst being nomadic. All you sad twats want to know is how to make cash. This will be important to all of you in the post apocalyptic World, so, without prejudice, I am going to show you how this is done.

The hiking was out of this World fucking extraordinarily beautiful. It did go a little bit 'Deliverance' at times. Can't deny I was spooked a little, but spooked in a nice melodramatic sort of way.

The more you lot doubt - the sadder you all read.

If you bothered to look at my blog you would know that I have walked from Granada to the Ukraine in the past. I love hiking, and even with an old tendon injury, a well paced 40Km, or even 50KM is really not an issue.

I'm really, really enjoying it. Your loss in life really.

Walk Three hours. Rest 30 minutes. Walk Three hours. Rest 30 minutes. Walk Three hours. Rest 30 minutes. Barely a days work.

Did you take any pictures as you dandered down the coast?

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Shutting down.

I have run out of hash. Need to stock up on beers also.

To the paradise beach I go

 

[weltweit]

My current watch is a classic

I think it was £12.00

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Aye, that'd be why you have 230 posts in this thread.

When I am active, I am very, very active.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'll take that as a very strange 'no' then

Shutting down.

I have run out of hash. Need to stock up on beers also.

To the paradise beach I go

 

[Stanley Edwards]

My current watch is a classic

I think it was £12.00

Hmmmmmm. Doesn't sparkle like a timepiece of jewellery should.

Where is the craftsmanship?

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Did you take any pictures as you dandered down the coast?

Nope

 

[weltweit]

Hmmmmmm. Doesn't sparkle like a timepiece of jewellery should.

Where is the craftsmanship?

It is mass produced, an item for the masses.
Waterproof which is nice.
Clock, stopwatch and alarm.

 

[Pickman's model]

Nope

Yeh. You pass through a fuck load of lovely countryside at about 2.8mph and don't take any pictures. And you're supposed to be an artist.

 

[andysays]

I don't put everything on my blog. Can't be arsed to, or don't have the time, battery, or WiFi. Much of what I post is retrospective. That includes posting here.

I could be in Madrid for all you lot know

TBH, you could be in a caravan in Clacton for all we know

 

[andysays]

When I am active, I am very, very active.

And when you are bad you are horrid.

Say goodnight, Stanley

 

[xenon]

Can we talk about my new watch please. It cost a lot of money. Someone has to appreciate it?

Sad.

 

[Celyn]

It is mass produced, an item for the masses.
Waterproof which is nice.
Clock, stopwatch and alarm.

Ah, now this thread could become educational. Those watches are good, being cheap, and they go on for ever BUT the damn wriststrap always breaks and then they live in a pocket, and considering how much other stuff lives in pockets, they become less-than-useful as a quick way to see what time it is.

So I'd like it if weltweit could share the secret of how not to break them, please.

 

[weltweit]

Ah, now this thread could become educational. Those watches are good, being cheap, and they go on for ever BUT the damn wriststrap always breaks and then they live in a pocket, and considering how much other stuff lives in pockets, they become less-than-useful as a quick way to see what time it is.

So I'd like it if weltweit could share the secret of how not to break them, please.

I haven't had an issue with the strap yet, perhaps that is yet to come. I must have had this one 1 - 2 years so far and the strap hasn't deformed at all yet. I am on the second to last hole, in case that makes any difference. I think if the strap broke I would probably just buy another

My last watch which I liked a lot was this:

It is a Swatch Irony, self winding which is great but there are no numbers on the face and sometimes glancing at it it takes a mo to register what the time is. Anyhow after many many years of faithful service it stopped winding itself so effectively and would occasionally stop.

I might take it up with swatch and see if I can get a deal on a replacement.

 

[Pickman's model]

TBH, you could be in a caravan in Clacton for all we know

(((Clacton)))

 

[Artaxerxes]

A freshly harvested watch?

 

[equationgirl]

Can we talk about my new watch please. It cost a lot of money. Someone has to appreciate it?

You bitch about us all being obsessed with making money and then want us to appreciate your new watch because 'it cost a lot of money'??!!

Yeah, fuck off.

 

[Artaxerxes]

It really is amazing what you get when you ask a rustic allotment owner.

The knife in your hand helps.

 

[TikkiB]

no it isnt

Fucking well is.

'He's behind you'

 

[kebabking]

'He's behind you'

I fucking hope not...

 

[kabbes]

If you bothered to look at my blog you would know that I have walked from Granada to the Ukraine in the past.

ukraine is not mentioned in your blog you know

It is.

I only crossed the border from Slovakia. Looked at the map. It was September. So, I turned around. But, I did get there.

Perhaps it was August 2010? Not sure without checking myself.

no it isnt. it is not mentioned, i have been following it for a while. not that it matters.

I don't put everything on my blog. Can't be arsed to, or don't have the time, battery, or WiFi. Much of what I post is retrospective.

All in the same page. Even by Stanley's standards...

 

[equationgirl]

All in the same page. Even by Stanley's standards...

I think if there's one thing Stanley can be relied upon for, it's being somewhat economical with the truth...

 

[kabbes]

I think if there's one thing Stanley can be relied upon for, it's being somewhat economical with the truth...

And showing no humility on bring confronted with his own lies.

 

[existentialist]

I haven't had an issue with the strap yet, perhaps that is yet to come. I must have had this one 1 - 2 years so far and the strap hasn't deformed at all yet. I am on the second to last hole, in case that makes any difference. I think if the strap broke I would probably just buy another

My last watch which I liked a lot was this:

It is a Swatch Irony, self winding which is great but there are no numbers on the face and sometimes glancing at it it takes a mo to register what the time is. Anyhow after many many years of faithful service it stopped winding itself so effectively and would occasionally stop.

I might take it up with swatch and see if I can get a deal on a replacement.

Take it to a jeweller and get a quote on servicing it. Apparently, they don't run indefinitely.