PREHISTORIC EXPERIENCES

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...

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...

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...

Day 1; Cricklade to somewhere near Kempsford 4th June 2023 ( I wast unable to write blogs while on the river - phone signal and the...

I took the canoe frame, and the huge increasingly pungent skins with me to the Bushcraft show. The frame was much admired... The stench...

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,...

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...

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...

I'd worked with furs before- mostly to construct clothing for our stone age workshops, but also for my Fashion degree. In the latter...

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...

I Often use parts of animals in my work, just as our ancestors did. I source them from various places; hunters, pest controllers,...

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...

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...

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...

Spring is the time when nature bursts into life after the winter slumber. Buds swell and erupt into new leaves, shoots push up through...

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,...

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-...

( 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...

The Ertebolle culture of the late Mesolithic Denmark ( 5300-3950BC) is fascinating from an ancient technology point of view, not just...

Fossil hunting was my route into Bushcraft. Along with a passion for sorting through beaches worth of stones for sharks teeth and other...