Joined some of the guys last weekend for a wee sneaky overnighter, most of the guys had been there the Friday night but I couldn't make it so unfortunately I missed the rain...

The wee fella has been hounding me for weeks to have a camp out in hammocks and thankfully the guys didn't mind if I brought him along so it was chainsaw juniors first hammock night out, a bit of an adventure for him.

We got there just after lunchtime and after a wee trudge about trying

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Heck, it's been an age since I wrote on here, the time just flies by.  It's been a busy year though with site changes, moving servers, new baby (Called Jenna, she's lovely) moved house, converted the garage and all sorts of other things.

I'm excited by spring really getting on, summer starting to get a hold and the world getting really green, it seems like just a few days ago that the trees were still bare and now they're alive again with leaves popping out

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During the A-Z of Bushcraft we managed to cover most letters
but we are bit stumped about what topics to cover under the ltters L, J, V and Q

Anyone got any ideas?
http://www.azbushcraft.com

Well here I am at skegness writing the first entry to my new online  
blog. The weather has been rubbish and I'm sat in my car, which I  
can't drive yet having failed my test twice.
 
Well why am I writing this blog? In 4 weeks I hit the largest  
milestone yet of my life, leaveing school and taking my final exams.
 
After which I will embark on fulfiling my ambission of becomeing an  
outdoor and bushcraft instructor.
 
This all started

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With kit packed we were off on the 3hr walk it took to get there. Me and my brother as kids used to go every weekend to camp.

we found our spot and started to collect fire wood, kindling and tinder in the form of birch bark shredings. back to camp we put up the tarps and i put up my hammock whilst my brother made a bed of furn branches.

Then came the fire split logs down then  birch bark layer for the shreded birch bark tinder. One strike on my fire stick and fire was lit

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As I write this I'm looking at the forecast for the weekend. Snow! What's all that about after the really mild weather we've had reently which almost heralded the early onset of Spring.

Well, things happened quite early around here. First to show were the Snowdrops of course then Dog's mercury creeping up through the undergrowth and then Celandine in the warmer areas. Young nettles are now appearing. It will soon be time for nettle tea and soup.

I've been lucky enough to sleep out for a couple of nights about every two weeks

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Its that time of year again, the sap starts rising in the tree's, preparing themselfs to spring into life. As I sit here drinking Birch-sap I thought I would post up about my nightly activities... Unfortunatly I've been very busy lately and my oppertunity to get out and collect some sap was left to last night, which was a bit of a shame as I

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Well finally got round to mod'ing my 2008 DDHammock from Sandbags47s excellent group buy . My 2006 was already fitted out with karabiners but the 2008 was still waiting for the same treatment! I like krabs on a hammock to work as drip rings and during the day, if you unclip one end, reconnect it to the ridgeline at the other end, it give you loads more space under the tarp. I wanted to go from the one on

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Hi again folks, it's been a while since starting this blog and I guess it was started with good intentions and abandoned! Well back on track again. I've been very busy over the winter with work and I've had a few very frightening though debilitating, thankfully not life threatening health issues that have made me sit up and take stock of everything, hence the wee break. A stomach bleed-the modern condition my doc calls it...and recurrent laberynthitis a very frightening vertigo

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