Published Date: 09 October 2008 PERFECT timing. Just when we need to learn all over again how to get a good old-fashioned log fire going in the grate, the "world's leading authority on survival and bushcraft" (it says here) is coming to town. Yes, the man himself, Ray Mears, replete with bush hat and an emergency box of Swan Vestas in his hip pocket in case he can't raise a spark by rubbing a couple of twigs together. Sunday night will see him at the Corn Exchange, which no doubt will be swarming with council officials, the jobsworths. Will Mears be okayed to carry a knife or light a fire? If he's wearing his trademark shorts, will he catch his death in this weather? Maybe travelling with his own witch doctor? Tell you this, I much prefer him to that bloke who does a similar show on telly, Bear Grylls, who famously was caught...
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