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You know those cold winter nights, when it's been dark since 16.30 and by 20.00 staring into the fire is slightly losing it's charm? Well fear not, I give you "The Spinner" A well known purveyor of sharp and Bushcrafty things is selling, at a very attractive price I might add, the answer to...

I feel I would be neglecting my duty to other forum members if I did not notify everyone of an essential piece of kit which is an absolute must have. A Tactical sewing kit!! I know, I know, just what everyone has been searching for without success. Search no longer, for the small sum of £10...

The Gym I use shares a building with a Golf Club and a small cafeteria. The cafeteria (owned by the Golf Club) is also used for functions ie: wedding receptions, business meetings etc: Stumbling from the Gym this morning in my usual sweat soaked state of exhaustion I was confronted in the...

Over the years I've found that by using commercial camp sites "out of season" I've been able to explore different areas of the country at my own pace. It's not Bushcraft but it's a way of spending time in Nature using a secure base and lets me 'over night' as the expression goes, away from base...

(Imgur photo resizing is having a sulk, hence the dodgy photo sizes) .................... After wandering around and sleeping under a tarp amongst the Gorse bushes up on the Sussex Downs last week, it was nice to return for a few nights luxury in my tent in...

Well it says 'Trip report' but it's just a 2 day wander with a night out in between. Summer seems to be lingering locally, sunny warm days and still mild, although evenings have the feel of Autumn. After a while spent in the flat lands of Norfolk earlier, I had an urge to get out on the Downs...

I'm not connected with the company other than as an infrequent customer but Axminster Tool Company are doing a combination deal of a Laplander folding saw and Mora Companion knife for just over £25 delivered. ( product code number 100953) I'm not a great Internet bargain hunter but looking...

Not so much Bushcraft, more a road trip. If life follows it's usual course, virtually all my time outdoors this winter will be in the woodland, so I took advantage of what may be the last burst of summer sun to spend some time in more exposed places. North Norfolk is 200 miles from home on the...

There could be a delay in Christmas present deliveries this year. Rudolph and some of his team oppos may have been involved in this shocking incident... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/37214288

Over the past 65+ years I've watched a nearby Forestry Commission woodland slowly change from rank after close rank of dark evergreens standing on a pine needle strewn woodland floor, to a different world of broadleaved trees and sunlit glades. Today was hot and sunny and a wander in the cool...

I'm a great fan of fire straws, the plastic drinking straw stuffed with Petroleum Jelly and cotton wool mix. Rarely do I light tinder and carefully add kindling to feed the flame, I just make an open fire by piling tinder, kindling and thicker fuel wood in a heap and then just lighting a fire...

I'm guessing this feather is from a Buzzard, purely because Buzzards and Tawny Owls are the most common large birds in the area where I found the feather. Any keen Ornithologists to confirm or advise please?

After spending a week wandering the open fells and hills of Northumberland a week or so ago, I repacked my gear and headed to the solitude of a Sussex woodland. When I left home on the coast it was 28 degrees Celsius and the local beaches were strewn with cooking oily bodies..;) In the wood...

In the winter of 2015 I was offered the use of a cottage that an old friend had recently purchased. I declined use of the cottage but obtained his permission to camp on his land which formed part of the owned plot. I posted on the forum at the time (under planning) and recently I travelled North...

Our local village garage owner has just revamped his forecourt seeking to attract more trade. Four tractors, the Vicar on his moped and no less than six private cars have already increased his takings this past week.....:D (Photo taken at a local country fair...)..:D

Having a sort through some gear that has been stowed away for some time I came across one of my old tents. Must be close on 40 years since I bought it, sometime back in the late 1970's I think. I came home on leave and went for a wander up around the Northern section of the Pennine Way. I...

I was last in the wood for a few nights about the middle of February, since when we have had the last of the winter gales. On this trip, just for 4 nights, I was sorry to see that the weather had taken it's toll. I believe a Beech Tree lives for between 350 and 400 years and when fallen takes...

In February I attended a reunion with people that I used to work with years ago. Some came from afar, so it's usually a two or three year gap between gatherings. Faces from the past, greetings that would have had the modern politically correct individual whimpering in a corner and questions...

Having long ago reached the wrinkly age for the annual anti 'flu jab, I went off to the local Doc's surgery for the yearly stabbing only to be invited to have the age related anti Shingles jab as well..Oh! Goody.. Anyway, that all over with, I found that within 24 hours I wasn't feeling that...

Some time ago I was given a gun by someone I had served with in the past. His Father had been a Game Keeper on a big Scottish estate before the turn of the 20th Century. 'Jock' gave me the gun in it's homemade oak wood case, and in the case was this knife which I've placed alongside my...