Trail finding on a bike ride with friends and surrounded by beautiful ripe blackberries. I had to stop. My passion for crumble created a perfect chance to demonstrate fixing a stained map of Hampshire.
Helmet hair
All I had on me was my rucksack with its tools, a map we’d been following and the one I use to prevent helmet hair on my head.
Deftly removing my head map I tied 4 sturdy knots in each corner to create a bowl shape from the square fabric map.
Dive in!
Then it’s the usual. Enlist the troops and dive into those brambles!
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Pretty soon the map/bowl was filled with delicious and rather squishy dark berries.
Likely to get crushed
I stuffed the map straight into the top of my back pack where it was least likely to get crushed on some of my favourite Hampshire Trails.
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Foraged to death?
Thankfully the map had done its job. No staining or runny stuff inside the rucksack. BUT it really had suffered itself. Had it been foraged to death?
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The pictures say it all!
It’s another tail of map hardiness. Why not share one of yours?