Bushcraft Blog

Bicycle tyre sandals are very easy to make (with care), very versatile and surprisingly comfortable. But why bike tyre sandals you may ask. Well they were a culmination of a...

There are moments in the woods when language falls behind. When the body knows something before the mind does. Fear sharpens. Breath changes. The senses feel alert in a way...

When I carve a wooden spoon, I’m not just trying to make something pretty. I’m making a tool, one that needs to survive heat, moisture, and regular use around a...

I often find myself procrastinating. There are things I would love to learn to do but a combination of lack of free time and confidence means that I tend to...

There are some tools that come and go - and then there are the ones that stay with you, shaping the way you work and the way you move through...

You may remember in my last blog I refurbished a Khukuri that I was fortunate to find in a skip. If you missed it have a look here. In this...

Most people perhaps don’t think of crochet as a bushcraft skill, but what is bushraft if not crafting things from natural materials to turn them into something useful. I decided that...

A side effect of people knowing I am a Bushcrafter is occasional gifts of odd tools. In this case I was offered a rusty axe but one that had an...

A few months ago I found myself searching for some items in a neighbour’s skip having been given permission to remove anything I could make use of. I didn’t find...

Yew, Taxus baccata, English Yew, Common Yew, European Yew. The name Yew comes from the Celtic name ‘iw’, but its ancient meaning is unknown. This also became ‘ew’ or ‘ewe’....

During a trip to Canada with Woodland Ways, where myself and 14 other people canoed and wild camped nearly 500 miles of the Yukon river. One of the many great...

In this weeks blog I’ll be showing you how I have set up one of my Really Useful boxes to suit my needs whilst out in the field. It is...