Evening All
as you know we took jake camping the other week and well his big sister was eager to go at some point so this saturday just gone we went again to my lil permission. but this time we went fully loaded! no little tent and so on this time it could only be described as full on expedition camping.
we took a massive tent(purchased for future family holidays) that we wanted to test out within a close distance to home to see how it went.
shannon and i went off to gather some Yarrow, its now sat soaking in some 40%vodka becoming a tincture.
Another woodlore knife being used to open jake's milk carton, i sense an ongoing theme here
shannon set up her bedroom
jake showed off for the camera (again he is such a poser)
brother and sister enjoying the woods
Shannon got hungry so a bowl of spaghetti bolognaise was needed
Then i taught shannon how to make charcloth
first you need some old denim, a tin and a sharp knife
stuff the tin full of denim
pierce a hole in lid of tin
place the tin on the fire
smoke will then escape from the hole you've made
it might even catch fire which isn't as bad as people would have you believe
sure looks pretty anyways
lisa and shannon made some bannock whilst i was feeding jake
by now charcloth is done
to celebrate its marshmallow and chocolate banana's for supper
And then time for the kids to go to bed
it went really well although i got strangely claustrophobic inside a tent i much prefer a tarp set up but for a change it was nice
shannon jake lisa and myself all had a good time
i think i need to get a pack horse or a sherpa for the amount of stuff we took tho
Hope everyone enjoys the photos
Sam
as you know we took jake camping the other week and well his big sister was eager to go at some point so this saturday just gone we went again to my lil permission. but this time we went fully loaded! no little tent and so on this time it could only be described as full on expedition camping.
we took a massive tent(purchased for future family holidays) that we wanted to test out within a close distance to home to see how it went.
shannon and i went off to gather some Yarrow, its now sat soaking in some 40%vodka becoming a tincture.
Another woodlore knife being used to open jake's milk carton, i sense an ongoing theme here
shannon set up her bedroom
jake showed off for the camera (again he is such a poser)
brother and sister enjoying the woods
Shannon got hungry so a bowl of spaghetti bolognaise was needed
Then i taught shannon how to make charcloth
first you need some old denim, a tin and a sharp knife
stuff the tin full of denim
pierce a hole in lid of tin
place the tin on the fire
smoke will then escape from the hole you've made
it might even catch fire which isn't as bad as people would have you believe
sure looks pretty anyways
lisa and shannon made some bannock whilst i was feeding jake
by now charcloth is done
to celebrate its marshmallow and chocolate banana's for supper
And then time for the kids to go to bed
it went really well although i got strangely claustrophobic inside a tent i much prefer a tarp set up but for a change it was nice
shannon jake lisa and myself all had a good time
i think i need to get a pack horse or a sherpa for the amount of stuff we took tho
Hope everyone enjoys the photos
Sam
