Living By Nature; The Year Course
Bushcraft has gone from a fringe hobby to a hugely popular way to connect with nature ( and ourselves) in the space of a couple of...
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prehistoricexperie
Dec 3, 20231 min read
The article is out!
As some of you may remember, a travel writer followed us on our journey and interviewed us at various stages of the trip. The beautifully...
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prehistoricexperie
Jul 15, 20235 min read
Day 2; Out of the jungle, into the Nettles
Kempsford to somewhere near Buscott 5th June 2023 Day two began with a somewhat late start. In fact by the time we had packed everything...
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prehistoricexperie
Jul 15, 20238 min read
Day 1; To the River!
Day 1; Cricklade to somewhere near Kempsford 4th June 2023 ( I wast unable to write blogs while on the river - phone signal and the...
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prehistoricexperie
May 31, 20233 min read
Final preparations
I took the canoe frame, and the huge increasingly pungent skins with me to the Bushcraft show. The frame was much admired... The stench...
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prehistoricexperie
Apr 27, 20236 min read
Ancient river, ancient boat
I have always loved the water. Apparently as a baby it was one of the only things that would send me to sleep! I have swum in lakes,...
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prehistoricexperie
Feb 10, 20234 min read
Porcupine
Porcupines are not an animal i know a lot about. I didn't encounter any on my previous visit to Ontario in 2005, and only think of them...
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prehistoricexperie
Feb 3, 20232 min read
Creatures of the Cold
Some of the tracks we spotted on the trip! We saw a huge range of tracks and signs during the trip- from wolf and deer to mouse and...
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prehistoricexperie
Feb 3, 20234 min read
Working with furs
I'd worked with furs before- mostly to construct clothing for our stone age workshops, but also for my Fashion degree. In the latter...
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prehistoricexperie
Feb 3, 20235 min read
A whole lot of foxes
Making the parka for my trip truly felt like an epic undertaking. I decided early on to try and use UK skins as much as possible. The...
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prehistoricexperie
May 20, 20225 min read
Hedgehog Haircare??
I Often use parts of animals in my work, just as our ancestors did. I source them from various places; hunters, pest controllers,...
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prehistoricexperie
May 20, 20223 min read
Why study the stone age?
The stone Age can seem an impossibly distant period of time, so distant perhaps that you might think that learning about it isn’t really...
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prehistoricexperie
May 9, 20225 min read
Sub Zero temperatures in Stone Age clothing!?
Some of you will have seen my recent posts on the various bits of clothing I'm making for my winter trip to Canada next year. The trip is...
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prehistoricexperie
May 4, 20222 min read
Nettle cake recipe: a delicious slice of spring!
It was my birthday last weekend, so i decided to exercise my dormant baking muscles and make a cake fit for a forager, and suited to a...
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prehistoricexperie
May 4, 20227 min read
Good enough to eat; 10 of the best spring forageables!
Spring is the time when nature bursts into life after the winter slumber. Buds swell and erupt into new leaves, shoots push up through...
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prehistoricexperie
Apr 16, 20225 min read
3 ways Yarrow can save your life
Yarrow the wonder herb that could save your life! Let us face it; Flint knapping is a blood sport. If you play enough with sharp things,...
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prehistoricexperie
Apr 14, 202211 min read
Setting the Record Straight; Why eating Roadkill isnt so crazy!
Much has been made of my Roadkill scavenging habits recently. An article Written by a press agency ended up in papers all over the world-...
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prehistoricexperie
May 8, 20213 min read
Surviving Ice-age temperatures in stone age clothing
( photo by Thetford photos) For the Living by nature Winter course I am going to need to make a lot of clothing. It needs to fit and work...
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prehistoricexperie
May 8, 20213 min read
Ertebolle Culture; Mesolithic ingenuity
The Ertebolle culture of the late Mesolithic Denmark ( 5300-3950BC) is fascinating from an ancient technology point of view, not just...
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prehistoricexperie
Apr 12, 20215 min read
Looking for lithics; identifying manmade flint tools
Fossil hunting was my route into Bushcraft. Along with a passion for sorting through beaches worth of stones for sharks teeth and other...
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