A damp garden does have compensations...

 A pait of mistle thrushes have been visiting all morning!

Red

Did a bit of fiddling in work over the past few days and created a collapseable tripod for over a fire - we'll have to try it out sometime. In the recent past I've also been playing with some of the Morrisons food storage tins mentioned by Wayland a few weeks ago and tonight I've put some photos up - might ttry to edit this to copy them here once I find out how to.

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Well I've been messing around in the woods today - gathered up some branches etc. to try a few techniques out for building a better pot hanger

 I spotted absolute clouds of scarlet pimpernels around on the walk (shown above)

I got a handful of pignuts whilst I was there

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Preparations are well under way for the Bushmoot and I'm getting petty excited to get away, meet the BCUK crew again and hopefully get stuck in and learn a few more skills. Actually, there's not a great deal to do as I'm getting pretty used to deciding what to take on excursions. All my kit is readily available in two drawers of an old filing cabinet and my (

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So here I am wandering the web and I find myself gawping at more fire-pistons. I must admit I've developed more that a little fascination for these wonders of fire making. I've made a few myself with varying degrees of success, and I'm slowly learning what constitutes a good one, and a mediocre one. Theres one fact staring me in the face though, charcloth gets damp in the UK, no ifs - no buts, if you've been storing this stuff for more than a few weeks, the effectiveness starts

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Well, there's a first time for everything.  And this is my first ever blog. I've only read a few before.  We'll see if this "old dog" can learn a new trick.

 I spent most of yesterday making 56 iron and 6 brass fish hooks - based on originals dating from the mid to late 1700's.  Most were made without barbs, but all were made "blind eye" - with the end flattened/flaired instead of with a loop eye.  These are for a museum trade

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This is the first time I've even considered writng a blog about myself, and what I get up to, on a hopefully regular basis, so I thought I'd just let you know what I'm up to at the moment.

For starters, I'm in the process of making a smoker, along the lines of the ones made by Mr Dick Strawbridge on "It's not easy being green".

It starts off with an old container, on the show Dick uses a 40 gallon drum, but on a walk along the Bristol channel coastline

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just a note to all those going on the moot at the weeknd hope you all enjoy  i shall be going to the next moot that being organised im unable to atend this years one because of  transport arangments as my friends are going afurther afield after the moot so the next time i hope to meet up will all of you and i hope to see the photos of this moot on yor return tony and timon

regards

TRistan  

 Had a wander through the woods today - thoroughly nice. They are felling up there right now so I headed in a differnt direction and came across a couple of fallen birch trees.

 Too good an opportunity to miss so I cut some sections to make a dipper. Warm work mind you (as the photo above shows)

 Nice day and saw some

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Right, so this must be it then. I can't promise to make entries daily, or even regularly - but its probably about time I explored another avenue to see what goes on.

My Bushcrafting takes place in fits and starts, as theres a familly and a household to run, animals and land to maintain let alone the vehicles and whatever else makes my time precious.

Theres some bushy bits I'm comfortable with such as firemaking, knotwork, even a bit of forging and bladesmithing, but that in

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