The best thing about airports are the travellers. Not the tourists, not the duty free or the sample shots of whisky it's ok to try before breakfast. It's the travellers with stories you can see before you've even spoken to them. This backpack is older than me. It's been travelling for 40 years on the shoulders of the same person. It's not heading home yet. This airport is a gateway to another Continue Reading
John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman
Back in 1986 my paper round money went on a copy of John 'Lofty' Wiseman's SAS Survival Handbook. I still have it. I'd managed to get a copy just before it was banned. Shortly after it was revised without the mantraps and chemical concoctions. All the bits we would talk about at school. I had spent a good chunk of my childhood living in and around woodland and to say this book changed me is an Continue Reading
Photos from the Bushcraft Show
A flickr set of images taken at the first ever Bushcraft Show. If you are viewing on an iphone click here Continue Reading
Morning has broken. Lakeside at the @BushcraftShow
Some people were up at 5am, up in the woods, tracking. The rest of up had a lie-in. There's not many people sleeping under a pile of sticks and leaves. There is all kinds of sleeping tech dotted around the campsite. This morning sees people emerging from military basha's, roof tents on Land Rovers, Mazda Bongo's and caravans. I must say that our own setup of Continue Reading
A book you can’t put down. You’d never find it again.
Dinner on the lake at the @BushcraftShow
I'm currently sat at the door of our tent in a little pain as my mate Dave has made the hottest chilli I think I have ever tasted. He says it's a low tech way of providing gas central heating for the night. Continue Reading
This is home at the @BushcraftShow
Myself (@Documentally) & @DaveEwington decided that by the lake (Windermere) would be the best place to pitch the Helsport Varanger 8-10 man Lavvu. There is only 2 of us so there is room at the inn should you be passing. The Bushcraft Show is only a slingshot fling away and that's where we will be over the weekend. If you are here, come and say hi. Continue Reading