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    stove hmmmmmmm...

    No matter what you finally decide upon to make your wee stove to keep your yurt warm, do not neglect the issue of venting. If your stove can leak fumes into your living space, you might get nice and snug, fall asleep, and wake up to be issued with your harp and halo.
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    What's your winter project ?

    I have just finished pruning my willow fedges, and I hope that Lostboy and I will get around to making a coracle. Provided the dear lad does not just commandeer all my osiers to make baskets with. Apart from that, my craft work of late has all been of the more civilised type, rather than...
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    birdskin.

    Can anyone tell me how to tan the skin of a bird, with the feathers on. A friend of mine came across a roadkill crane, and skinned it for me to make myself a craneskin bag. He packed it in salt until he could get it to me.
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    Hypothetical question - Living off the land

    Good. Ye are thinking about this. Now let's start doing something about it, and solve most of the problems before they are actually biting us in the ****. Let's use the skill and resourcefullness that we have learned through bushcraft in as constructive a way as possible. 1. Start to...
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    What have you done since the server has been down

    Welcome back, guys. While ye were away I have been doing my ususal woodland walks, and working in my gardens. And I have been trying to learn how to carve wood. I also made some fruit leather, to which I added clove and ecinecia root tincture. Cut into wee strips, rolled up, and wrapped like...
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    Wombling

    Almost every stick of furniture, and the curtains and carpets, in my house is pre-owned. Most of it came from skips, or from neighbours getting rid of things. But it is my greenhouse that really got me a reputation in the village as a Womble. The council replaced everyones old windows with...
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    Carving a woodspirit - a tutorial of sorts :) PIC HEAVY

    Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial. I always wanted to make carved figures, and now I have some idea of how to go about it. Now, where did I put the band-aids.
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    mushrooms

    Oh yes, that makes sense I suppose. You have to listen to them. Then you just do what you were going to do anyway.
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    mushrooms

    Toddy, I know what SWMBO means. My six foot two son uses that phrase for his five foot nothing wife, and it is appropriate. But what does HWMBLT mean?
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    Grave Goods

    May all the beautiful moments that you shared with your Mother be as flowers in the basket of your life, and guide you until the day when your loved ones weave you a parting basket.
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    The return of the sloe

    Yo, bushcraftbob. What is this hawthorn berry and crabapple fruit leather experiment of which you speak? I am intrigued, because although I understood every word in the sentence, the entire sentence makes no sense to me.
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    Old school woodwork benches ?

    Why don't you build one? I have some plans and instructions that i could photocopy and post to you, if you P M me.
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    What does your Hobo Stove look like?

    Excellent work, young man. But how did you get that billycan off the stove without burning your hands?
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    Natural Anti-Slug.

    There is finally a solution, but it is rather expensive. There is a type of slug pellet called Ferramol, which is a simple iron compound. It kills slugs, and only slugs. It does not harm frogs or hedgehogs or birds or anything except slugs and snails. It gives them a terminal bellyache...
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    sedge- good for the urban bush man

    you can stuff it in your boots, if they are too big, when you have to walk in very wet conditions in winter. Even when wet, it keeps your feet warm.
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    Sage

    And it keeps the midges at bay. Irishlostboy made a wonderful smoke thingy the other day out of two tin cans. He put sage leaves and lemon balm leaves in it, and it produced a lovely aromatic smoke, and the bugs buggered off.
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    Why not try...

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    Your Bannock/Damper recipe.

    My favourite way to cook damper is to roll the dough into a snake, spiral the snake around a cooking stick, and cook it over the embers of the campfire. Another way is to cook it on the stones at the side of the campfire.
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    Creature Comforts

    Yes. Sweatlodges are the thing. I used to live right beside an ancient Sweathouse. It was a tiny beehive shaped stone building. But it had not been used in over a hundred years, and was begining to fall down. My favourite sauna is the one you make with the pine fronds over it. And a...