I’m Going to Get Really Knotted Now!

A Knotty Problem

Trying to learn how to 7  knots in a week was surprisingly harder than it seemed. Not to mention more than a tad frustrating.

In addition I also had a job trying to film myself attempting this. I needed to acquire a few extra skills to try & accomplish this.

I may have been a girl guide but I am not sure it helped some 40 odd years later! My oldest friend set the challenge triggering decades old memories. Particularly those days as teenagers putting on our uniform & walking to the girl guide hut.

Girl Guides & Knots

I admit this challenge did test my patience at various points during the week. It certainly wasn’t as easy as I had thought it would be. Still I did have a laugh  struggling to ‘force’ the rabbit through the hole & such like.

Think I might have failed as a jolly jack tar if left to my own devices tying the ropes on an old sailing boat. Definitely think I would have been much better at ‘splicing the main brace’. It was clear  I needed a few of these by the time I was finished.

Not sure if we actually got a badge for our knot tying knowledge but from bootlaces to belts this knowledge often comes in handy. Looking at the bootlaces in the photo I think I need to get myself some jazzy laces. My black belt has a particular way to be tied & the section with your name on should hang down on the left

Open the Getting Knotted  pdf to find out more about how I got on tying knots

The second of the Retirement Challenges that I attempted as it seemed to be an ‘easy’ & quick one to achieve but it was harder than it seemed.

Fancy trying knot tying yourself? Then open this  Scouts Adventures  pdf for instructions from the Scout Association.