Our friends at the Bushcraft Magazine are running their first South East Bushcraft Meet near Ashford in Kent over the first May bank holiday weekend. The ticket price includes a full two and a half days of workshops – everything from outdoor cooking to bow making – which seems like pretty good value. Yours truly is making [...]

What I'm planning to add to the blog in the next few weeks: A step-by-step guide to navigation using modern (map, compass and all the fancy gadgetry that modern life gives us) and primitive methods.This will come in little easy to absorb bite-sized chunks. Some tutorial-style pieces and wee hints and tips for general wilderness [...]

The 2009 course programme is now on the website. As the whole Skills For Wild Lives project is in its infancy I don't want to try and run before I can walk so have deliberately kept things simple for this year. I'll be adding another couple of courses shortly – a family day and a coastal [...]

  Normally I go with the flow and New Year happens on the 1st January just like everyone else*. This year things feel different – like it’s already happened. This got me wondering but the more I think about it, the more natural this is. The details might be a bit sketchy – I’m no [...]