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After a suggestion from another member, I thought I would put up a tutorial on making wooden Kazoos. I have made these with many different groups from nursery children to scouts, and find them a great way of introducing basic knife work. And of course they have an easily made object that...

I'm sitting here trying to put together the introduction to my dissertation and I am stuck at how to explain what 'nature' is. It seems so daft as you say 'nature' and assume people know what you mean but when you (or at least I) try to write out a couple of hundred word explaination it all...

Well the whole family including me have had some sort of lurgie (flu like symptoms) for the past few days. And Christmas day was no better, but I couldn’t cope with staying in any longer so at midday I decided to head out for a walk in the woods around the house. There has been snow lying for...

Well, I'm still waiting for a few things I ordered for the kid's Christmas (think they will now have to go without, nevermind). But a courier turned up today with a parcel ordered by my OH. (our post has been disrupted for about a month and I had given up almost all hope). I think its...

As my daughter has some new boots. I thought I ought to see if anyone wanted her old ones. NOW GONE Fabric walking boots from Peter Storm. Size 1 (33). They have been fairly well used but are still in reasonably good condition, the only flaw is that the top eyelets on one side of each...

OK, I have said I will organise some night games for a small group of up to 10 girls aged 10-14 next week. We have a grassed field and a small section of mature woodland to use, they will be bringing torches, but I may confiscate them at the start :rolleyes: Has anyone got any games they...

My kids have been asking for a broom each for christmas:rolleyes: , however I'm not sure if I'll have much time to make them (exams next week!, I'm studying honest;) ). I have two options at the moment - Find one for sale, I want two traditional good quality brooms that can sweep up 1/2 an...

Realised that my sons 10 birthday is rapidly creeping up on us and I want to get him something with a purpose. As he has everything he needs (food, clothes, canoe, sheath knife, roof over his head, ) I thought perhaps I ought to start introducing archery into his life. So I'd thought of...

After a week of rain. I took the kids out on Friday. We stopped at one of our favorite fungi patches and found litterally hundreds of Chanterelles. I gave the kids a bag each and instructions only to pick a few from each area. When we got home I weighed our haul and have 3Kg of...

I’m just back from five days away in North Aberdeenshire/Speyside and thought I’d inflict a couple of pictures on you :D . The first couple of days I was on a Bushcraft course (Thanks Richard ;) ) Where we were Making shelters Feather sticks Lighting fires Making Mallets And trying...

Wasn't sure where to put this but, I'm just back from work to discover the bedroom full of hundreds of Honey Bees :yikes: . They seem to be coming in and out around the window frame which is in a very poor state of repair. So what do I do? the kids keep running around screaming...

I’ve just come back from an evening out in the woods with one of our patrols of 6 Girl Guides. They are all very young 10 & 11 and haven’t been in guides long but as a patrol they wanted to do their survival badge. Tonight they were to be building shelters. Looking at the weather ( high...

Before I start I'm not reccomending this and I haven't tried it. But I thought It might be of interest. I have an excellent book written in 1917 , The wild foods of Great Britain. In it there are a list of two hundered and sixty different wild foods and recipies to go with them. One of...

I don't get much time to spend on the pc but just so you know who I am when I start posting my opinions I thought I'd say a few words about myself. :D At the age of four I realised my parents had a lot going on in their lives and they were quite happy for me to dissapear in to the woods at...