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- Companies I cannot recommend…. 29 November 04:47
- Reed leaf boat 26 November 00:25
- Split Willow spanner 23 November 09:40
For some time I have wanted to purchase a pair of US Military “Mickey Mouse” boots. These were first issued to GI’s in the Korean War and are designed to shield against water and extreme cold. The ...
This is one that my mother taught to me and is always popular with children and adults...
While out on the reserve the other day I needed to undo a nut and bolt but realised I had left the spanner behind. It was a long walk back to the workshop so a decided to try and make something out of natural materials...
My third recent purchase was a set of interchangeable carving tools made by Flexcut. I bought their quick connect palm handle and then from their range of tools selected four that I thought would be most useful. Three are from their #6 sweeps and one from their spoon gouges range...
Another item I recently purchased was a small hatchet to use for carving as I left my Elwell axe at my cabin Ignore the Wilkinson Sword stamp on the handle because the hatchet is actually made by a Finnish company called Fiskars...
I find that day-to-day living in the UK my crusader cup is rather large for my needs so I recently purchased a Lifeventure titanium mug. In order to boil water in the cup I wanted to make a lid so firstly I cut out an aluminium disk...
We headed off away from the bear den and after walking a while Teres spotted a beer bottle pushed under a fallen tree...
The morning started with me sanding cups and Teres sewing leather bags The temperature was -2 degrees and it had been -7 in the night but at least it was sunny After cleaning the cabin (as it would be our last day there) we decided to go walking in the forest, to the peak behind the cabin...
We spent the morning collecting fallen trees from the forest for next years fire wood. Its so much easier to drag them back when there are two people!!! I also carried back the tipi poles and stored in the cabin roof...
I spent some time teaching Teres how to use a firesteel and while we were out collecting water from the spring, I challenged her to make fire and a pot of coffee. So as not to pressure her I went walking in the forest...
The first task of the morning was to row the boys around the lake to collect up the boats. As well as numerous Willow Tits feeding around the cabin this morning more about “Pictures by sufguy1 – Photobucket“, posted with vodpod there...
Heard a strange, regular noise in the forest behind the cabin first thing this morning. It was clear that whatever was making the noise was moving from left to right. I telephoned Anki and Ingvar at their cabin and they immediately identified it as a Reindeer with a bell around its neck...
During my last three visits to Lapland my friends have spoken of “Surströmming”, a delicacy and favoured food of the people of the north. It is in fact fermented herring which has been caught in the Baltic Sea. The...
There are some beautiful scenes across the lake on cold, misty autumn mornings...
Teres’s children had been given time off school to join us at the cabin, to learn more about nature and improve their English. Before driving back to the cabin I visited the Dollar Store to buy a variety of items with which the boys had to build boats to sail across the lake. ...
