Quick morning out along the river with the chance to hang some bacon and have a brew after clearing a load of brambles on the land.
Lovely spring morning was warm enough to see a grass snake bathing in the sun.
Cleared a good section of brambles to clear the 3rd marsh then time to use the primitive fire kit, make a fire, release the bacon and have a brew.
My fire lighting kit consists of a steel striker, flint, Birch bark, char cloth and a piece of fat wood.
Cooking like this is fairly simple just a stick above the fire and slowly allow bacon to cook over fire whilst heating water in the fire.
Whittling. Had a chance to find a piece of green willow to have a go a whittling a coffee measuring spoon for my next project which will be a leather ground coffee bag. I’m just waiting for items to be delivered before I start this project.
The whittling knife and spoon knives are hand made from a guy I found on Facebook and I’ve been trying to find his details but I can’t find them to tag him but the are wonderful items.
