Yesterday after lunch I collected a block at the eastern windshelter where I originally started off. They were the only ones I knew the be found on the island. I was pretty heavy carrying it to the other side of the island so I started kicking it like it was a football. I then decided that I would probably make my spoon at Program anyhow. It was ok then to leave my block there.

The first birch I set of to chop turned out to be rotten inside. I couldn't use it for carving. A lot of effort

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In fact it was larruping down all day, forecast from the BCUK link was Moderate/Heavy/Heavy/Torrential/Moderate! Plan was to go out for a walk or a cycle but I just wasn't in the mood for a soaking, somedays it makes no difference, others, I can't be bothered. Must be getting soft!! Also, I like taking my camera with me but it would have had to stay in the bag.

She who must be obeyed was planning on cooking up a special meal tonight to she didn't mind if I disappeared into the garden for the day. I popped the garage door up, hung a tarp to give me some more dry space and pulled up a chair. I had a couple of bushcraft

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..... 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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