..... I last put some stuff up here.

The Summer Moot was another outstanding success, and I was more that a little pleased to be able to pay a tiny bit back by co-hosting the Rabbit Preperation session. Buckshot Mark reminded me yet again that we occupy an argueably priveledged position, in that we are able to see the entire food chain from field to table. Whereas a lot of folk have no experience of the lead-up that exists before the plastic wrapped packages that appear on the shelves of

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I'm beginning to have the feeling I'm settling down now. After I wrote my blog, yesterday morning I spent some time at my camp. First thing I did was making it waterproof. Apparantly I got the angle wrong last night. However, that got me about 10 liters of fresh water! A good thing to have when surrounded only by seawater.

I then collected a big bunch of birchbark and twigs. Firemaking is going really fast now. I can make a fire now, big enough to make tea on, in less then five

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After I made the "eldpåse" I moved camp to the northern windshelter. The campdirector said it would be much more quiet up there.

I also lended a kettle. This way I don't have to clean my billy can each time I want to make coffee after porridge. A German volunteer working at Program also gave me some coffee powder. The coffee ration I packed is a bit too low. I was dying for some more.

When I arrived I first made supper: again the Hungarian Gulash, the second portion

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Yesterday i cooked my freeze-dried food for the first time. I did this on woodfire, using my billy can. The Hungarian Goulash tasted real good I must say. Immediately afterwords I made a bannock. I turned out real good. I did however forget to put in the raisins. I didn't actually need to bring those cause there are enough berries around.

After that I finally managed to get the hammock right, even the mosquito net.

I then visited program house to get some information. Martin

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Hi All,

I was watching this thread on the forums and someone mentioned a hanger for the crusader cup. There was then another link to someone making one in the field which was really cool so I thought I'd figure out how to make a slightly more permanent one. You can buy these fellas on Ebay for a couple of quid but I've got a tight scotsman stereotype to live

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Yesterday I left at 5 AM to make it to Vässarö, Sweden for the Scouting's Sunrise ceremony. It was a tiresome journey but I was in time to set up my camp before the official supper. The last bus to Vässarö I sat next to a very Old Skool Scout indeed. He had joined scouting 75 years ago and was more ore less responsible for the fact Vässarö was a scout island now. He had also undertaken some bushcraft activities with his scouts. He even introduced a "Vildmark

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hi ,

this years bushmoot was really good ,i tried some workshop which were well presented and managed ;bow drilling/fire starting -it was really cool and me and my sister managed to get a coal and flames !- fire - first time i have tried beer bread it tastes quite good exept the sand! -  spoon carving - havent quite got the final product but it is slowly forming! -story telling - the storys were realy good -pouch making

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Well, I did it, on Saturday evening I headed out to location 2 as per my previous blog entry. I left the house a little late, about 20:30 and it took me an hour to walk in so by the time I finished setting up it was a bit dark, a bit of poor planning on my part.

One thing that did become apparent was that for anything longer than an overnighter, I'll need a bigger rucksack. Here's what I took with me;

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I just came back from the World Jamboree in Engeland. I stayed the night at Gilwell park, the first scout training ground. I even slept in the room opposite of the "Room of the Founder" There was a really interesting exposition about the first scoutcamp at Brownsea Island. The exposition included several scoutrelics!

Tomorrow I leave for Sweden, in time to join in the Sunrise activities Vässarö. Then my "personal Brownsea Island experience" will

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Hi all again, I was going to do a wee bit on my kit but I've instead decided I have enough to get out and have an overnighter. Not done a great deal of recce for this one but I may nip out on my bike tomorrow morning and have a poke about. Looks like one of the ones below;

Location 1 may not be so good, it's nice reasonably dense

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