i go to the woods opposite my house all the time and find stuff.
I usually make "bases" out of big logs and digging large holes. The last one was a 4ft deep hole, the size of two large, english people-carriers placed side-by-side. The walls were about 4ft high too, so there was lots of space to walk about.


Any way, the area has many dumping grounds, secret paths and unknown crimes scenes; so here are a few of the discoveries me and my friends have made there:

-pile of burnt clothes. Small pit had been dug out and a pair of jeans, strange wool jacket and what looked like a scarf were semi-burnt and left in a pile. I wasnt sure whether to report it to the police or not - i mean how many un-crime realted reasons can you think of?!

- about 20, lime-green-painted wooden doors. barely rotted so they hadnt been there long i dont think (This wasn't because of the paint though)

-3/4 wheelbarrows over the past 3 years ive been going. 2 were too rusted to use

-10 tractor wheels and countless numbers of tires scattered about (we used to race them down some hills and bike tracks. It was hilariously good fun, once it went just infront of somebody walking a dog- we ran like loons that day.)

-several well hidden bike tracks (and a sort of half pipe area which is great)

-dead crow (not long ago we found it. We buried it and made a cross and everything)

-Engineless motorbike (decent condition i guess, but some rust.)

-Lots of metal plates

-tonnes of golf balls and other sports equipment

-a MASSIVE mountain of gravel. about 30t high - then a few weeks after discovering it (where we had gone every few days to climb it), it vanished within 5 days of last seeing it. never seen it since, but everbodies been making up stories about where it has gone; "it retired to the caribbean","it started a career in rock" and other awful-you-have-to-have-been-there-jokes followed.

-a penknive (about £10)

-bow and arrow (just one made from sticks). infact its not really worth mentioning

-lots of good memories :)
(ErrorCarriedForward, Thu 30 Jun 2005, 16:26, Reply)