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    To Tap, to weave, to fly...

    ...and cook n chill... Our favorite spot to spend a couple of nights just before the Easter break. Flags up and range built Tapped the first of the Birch sap The team, this weekend... Looking through the woods Hazel weaving Not bushcraft...but the scouts made them... The...
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    Yodle-Ladle-Ooo...

    ...Carved from an unknown wood (felled and given to me by Ollie). Hard as iron to carve but when I came to oil it, very porous...the oil dripped through the bowl...So, six coats of varnish later, it's water-tight...Just in time for camp next weekend... Personally I think it looks like a hobbit...
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    Christmas Ham

    The season is well upon us...the Puddings were made several months ago, the cake has been fed, and the store is loaded with the remainder of last years cider...and my ham is hanging and drying. Soaked in a brine of cider, sugar, salt, treacle, juniper berries, bay leaves and black pepper corns...
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    A free lunch...

    My wife is in New York with her friends (part of a month long celebration of her 40th) my son is at a careers fair in london, so that leaves me and my daughter to spend easy quality time together...so... Off to the woods to see what we can find... My daughter Ceira with Oscar and a trug of...
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    The Cider Men with Laughter in their Hearts...

    ...And what a day for it...30 degrees (give or take) ensured we had to start drinking early to stay hydrated in all that heat... Apples; lots and lots of apples... First things first, a drink from the bar... And anoint the press Juice runs freely...approx 5 gallons from each pressing...
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    All set 4 this Saturday...

    ...the forecast is perfect, the apples are in, the barrels are sound and the press is waiting for the screw to turn...Oh! and we still have a few pints of last years brew to lubricate the workers... An easy (and free) 800 pints of cider pending...:beerchug: more anon...
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    No Idea too extreme...

    ...Okay, so I try my best with my scout troop...and to be honest there is little they are not up for, and I throw a lot at them, but, I am desperate for something that will stretch not only them, but me... I can rehash all I've done before (which is fine for the new members of the group...
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    Storm Dodging Scouts...and Cubs

    40+ youngsters and a new spot for camping. Only a mile down the track from the scout hut, by the stream and nestled in a small valley. A rather pretty spot with stacks of room for the scouts to run riot... First things first, set up camp and hoist the standard (I've lost count of the years...
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    Feeling Nostalgic...V pic heavy

    ...and OLD... My boy in pictures...they speak for themselves...apologies for sharing...
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    Narcissistic Photography

    Many of us have done it, and doubtless many others would if they but stared into the pool of digital delusion...;) Okay, just a bit of fun, only rule being, you took it yourself... My latest sees me as a 19th Century frontiersman (sic) at the Thompson Falls BC.
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    Cedar spindle and hearth

    Just as a small point of interest, while on hols in Canada, I had a little competition with my host...he being a bit of a backwoodsman, we had a friendly game of make a bowdrill set and first to ember and flame. We used the same materials (cedar for spindle and hearth) and both had good...
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    The Mummery Glacier. BC. Canada

    So, having come to canada (Golden BC) for a quiet couple of weeks holiday (ha bleedin ha) spent my time with family and friends between, white-water rafting (the Kicking Horse is high at the moment) mountain biking, canoeing, horse riding and the odd quiet hike through some of the most...
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    Stopham Paddle

    4.30am dropped my son off to catch a coach to Silverstone...some little car race he was keen to watch...and made straight for the river. Put in at 5.00am and headed up stream sedately, noislessly, a part of the river... Pre-dawn light, cool air and silent running... From the left a shot...
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    Odd behaviour from an Ash Tree...

    Cant quite get my head around this one. This Ash tree is still hanging onto its keys despite it being the middle of May. All the others have shed their keys, but this one appears to know something the others dont...Anyone got any explanations??? Its not in a particularly sheltered spot...
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    Up close...

    ...but not personal... Playing with my new camera, some fuji digital thing, took these to see what it could do... Dandelion seed head Hornet head shot Lackey Moth caterpillar - Malacosoma neustria Not bad for £90...
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    More bannock than you can shake a stick at...

    ...'cos then they would be twists... showed the scouts how to make bannock the traditional way, propped against a log in a frying pan...didn't stop them adding their own "twist"...but not a twist in sight... Guess which is mine??? :red: Great fun, but a salient lesson in tasty...
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    Not a bunny in sight...

    ...Traditional bank holiday District Scout camp, and by way of a change allowed Mr Tesco to supply the grub...The great thing about this camp is the organised activities, ranging from abseiling to kayaking, shooting and archery, crafts to geocaching...and much more. Here's a couple of pics to...
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    I went to the woods because...

    ...I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived... H. D. Thoreau In other words, simplicity, frugality and economy...All else is a product of the...
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    My Feathered Family...

    ...brooding... Waited until Missus BT took off for a quick bite to eat and took a quick peek and a photo...she came back soon after unaware of my snooping... This is home A clutch of five eggs I only put the box up late last year, so pleased its home so soon...
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    Traditional Easter Eggs...

    ...and my new antler staff... Haven't done this for afew years, but as a kid always made dyed eggs using natural materials, and any other substance that will leech colour during the boiling process. Amongst other things used today, petals from various flowers, onion skins and nettles...The...