While Bear Grylls eats a spider, maggot or snake on Channel 4, eight obese Brits are shown on BBC trying to lose weight by adopting a hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the Kalahari Desert.
Bushcraft and survival skills are fast entering the mainstream consciousness through the airwaves.

Bushcraft pops up everywhere now and in many guises. The Discovery Channel has Lee Stroud (Survivor Man) trying to survive for seven days in various remote locations with little or no food, water

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Today I got the chance to introduce my younger brother to Bushcraft, at nearly seven I thought it was time for him to venture into the woods and learn a few things.

Initially it did confirm my thoughts; that children these days dont visit woods or nature nearly enough. He thought Woodlands was going to be the 'Woodlands adventure park'!

Anyway, it was a wet, winters day in

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Hello folks,

This is my first ever blog and a newcomer to bushcraft.  Oh, i do the normal camping thing and have done for many years but watching "you know who" on tv made me want to have a go.  To date i have not done the deed ( it's hard to take my 3 and half year old son into the woods) but i have took him camping this year and last (and he loved it), so there's another one to add to the ranks when he's old enough.

Working in a city

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Good little idea this...

Getting one sorted for my own site... wonder if i'll ever have enough to talk about though....