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The gel found between the leaves, at the base of the stem of Reed Mace is effective for treating burns (isn't it Rod ;) ).

Happy Birthday matey :)

It's a fungi and I've found them myself.... [/IMG] It doesn't have a common name and at the moment I can't recall what the Latin name is :rolleyes: :o It will eventually go brown and turn powdery. I#ll post the name when I can remember it :o

Hi Jon, I use a rule of finger as a rough guide, having watched various deer and then measured their slots. Muntjac slots tend to be the length of the first joint of my index finger [/IMG] where as Roe Deer reaches to the second joint [/IMG] Fallow reach to my knuckle and Red...

Young shoots and rhizomes of Common Reed can be eaten raw or slow boiled. [/IMG] The young shoots of Reed Mace are also good cooked or eaten raw [/IMG] and this is Stinging Nettle and potato soup [/IMG]

Pump-drill, a natural fishing line or a fishing net.

Are these the cactus spikes you were telling me about Patrick?

I've just returned from and evening with Will Lord making bow strings and admiring his variety of laminated bows. http://www.beyond2000bc.co.uk/ He runs a variety of workshops including flint knapping and bow making. He's a very knowledgeable and enthusiastic teacher ;)

Here's some items I've made from Birch tanned Reindeer hide. [/IMG] Coffee pouches at the back, mobile phone pouch on the right and a neck pouch which I carry my fire kit in at the front. I either cut thin lengths of the leather or use sinew to sew them together.

AKA Camberwell Beauty ;) A species that sometimes finds it's way over here.

This is what i was trying to describe Mary; [/IMG] and having cut some pieces off here it is burning; [/IMG]

It was taken at the Bushmoot last summer and it is indeed a juvenile Sparrowhawk.

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I make a frame by twisting 8 whippy pieces of hazel together. [/IMG] ;)

Very nice work mate :You_Rock_ Hope you bring them along with you this weekend ;)

Hi Toby, I have a couple of friends there and can base myself with them. I would post this as a new thread in the forum because I think it will generate a lot more help and advise ;)

Tengu, you will find them much easier to lite if you leave the cardboard slightly proud of the wax ;)

I'm beginning to think you deliberatly organise your meets when i can't make them :rolleyes: :p :confused:

The ones I make from Boot wax tins last for well over an hour. They take about 12 minutes to boil a billy 10cm billy can full of water. I have also used them to cook meals on.

Not yet, but I would think most downy sead-heads will work. Happy Birthday Day by the way Rich ;) Getting back on topic, when I was on a course in Canada last winter, we were using Aspen wood (which had been attacked by the Aspen conk fungus) for bow-drill sets and as one of the other...