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Backyard Bushcraft
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Sitting and Reading
Sitting outside to get some reading done today. It’s not always easy to concentrate with nature going on around me though. So much to see. There were housemartins swopping, red admiral butterflies floating past, and strange unfamiliar beetles to pursue through the long grass.
It’s been cold of late and we haven’t been out much. Too cold [...]
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Needing or Wanting?
It’s good to be back after a long while away from this site. Several readers have been in touch to ask where I’ve been. Suffice to say, life sometimes gets in the way of what you want to be doing - whether that’s enjoying the outdoors or writing this blog post. And left [...]
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Bushmoot 2007
Just a quick note to wish Tony and all the BCUK gang a great time and fine weather at this year’s BCUK Bushmoot starting on July 27th through to 31st at Merthyr Mawr in South Wales, UK.
Last year, like previous years, was brilliant, so this year will I’m sure be no exception.
Sadly we can’t make it to [...]
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Bushcraft for Kids - Starting out with Fire
This the first in my long-promised series about getting kids into the outdoors, bearing in mind that I’m talking about outdoors being the backyard here and not the wilderness!
The backyard is a great place to learn bushcraft skills and the great thing is that it gives kids a long-term interest, rather than just an [...]
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Campout time for kids and bushcraft for girls!
It’s campout time at the moment. The kids want to sleep out and we’re trying to vary shelters each night progressing from tents, tarps and bivvy bags through to natural shelters and plain ol’ sleeping under the stars with nothing at all. Of course we need a really warm and breeze-free night for the last [...]
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