I am thinking of changing my name to "William Loveless" as I seem to be "Billy Nomates" at the moment!
At the last minute everyone coming on this months meet pulled out (they blamed work - huh!) so I was solo from 4pm Friday until Noon on Sunday (except for a visit from my wife on Sat evening - and she did not even stop for a coffee!) up in my basecamp in the woods.
During that time I enjoyed the sounds of nature, from the cheeky Blackbird that kept visiting to steal feed from around the site, coming right up to me on several occasions, to the Badgers having a domestic - in both setts around the site! The Less Spotted Woodpecker was busy hollowing out a tree and Tree-creepers were zooming around while Kites patrolled overhead. All this in bright sunshine that had the Bluebells pouring out their scent.
I did get a bit of work done on the shelter - adding a crude bench and a gear ledge as well as a rack for the frying-pans etc - but forgot to get photos and I tried splitting some poles but the maul Stewart made on the last meet soon broke, my old one that Stewart's was to replace split and so I had to make a new maul and wedges set ... which survived - so far! Unfortunately the poles all had 90 degree twists in them...
I also set to making 5 tea-towel's worth of charcloth - but although they were labeled "cotton" the tea-towels seem to have been a blend and the results were crisp lumps of char that were useless and ended up acting as charcoal on the fire!
It was nice to have the peace and quiet after a busy week - not that I have anything against those who dropped out of the meet - it was their loss!
At the last minute everyone coming on this months meet pulled out (they blamed work - huh!) so I was solo from 4pm Friday until Noon on Sunday (except for a visit from my wife on Sat evening - and she did not even stop for a coffee!) up in my basecamp in the woods.
During that time I enjoyed the sounds of nature, from the cheeky Blackbird that kept visiting to steal feed from around the site, coming right up to me on several occasions, to the Badgers having a domestic - in both setts around the site! The Less Spotted Woodpecker was busy hollowing out a tree and Tree-creepers were zooming around while Kites patrolled overhead. All this in bright sunshine that had the Bluebells pouring out their scent.
I did get a bit of work done on the shelter - adding a crude bench and a gear ledge as well as a rack for the frying-pans etc - but forgot to get photos and I tried splitting some poles but the maul Stewart made on the last meet soon broke, my old one that Stewart's was to replace split and so I had to make a new maul and wedges set ... which survived - so far! Unfortunately the poles all had 90 degree twists in them...
I also set to making 5 tea-towel's worth of charcloth - but although they were labeled "cotton" the tea-towels seem to have been a blend and the results were crisp lumps of char that were useless and ended up acting as charcoal on the fire!
It was nice to have the peace and quiet after a busy week - not that I have anything against those who dropped out of the meet - it was their loss!