Nikkaloukta to Abisko June 2019 Day 4. What a good decision it was to stop earlier the day before and setup just below Tjätkja Stugan along the Kungsleden Trail. We woke to beautiful weather with a amazing view looking down the valley towards Alesjaure. Breakfast for myself was Easy Eggs and for Jared it was…
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Swedish Meatball Recipe on the Frontier Stove,
Time to get in the garden to make this Swedish Meatball recipe on the Frontier Stove. A bit of a strange week this week with the children of school due to illness I only managed to get in the garden. I’ve so many things planned and things that need doing it all had to be…
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I haven’t had much time to get out recently with work and other things going on so I decided to go on a little micro adventure stalking for pike with the Dog and convert a dog walk into stalking for pike along the river. It’s very difficult to balance everything sometimes and sometimes something has…
Continue ReadingCovehithe the road to nowhere
I regularly visit Covehithe the road to nowhere and today was a visit back to this windswept part of the Suffolk coastline. The plan was to walk along the cliff down to Benacre Broad and south a little way to the area I normally setup and have breakfast. Beautiful morning, clear skies, sun shinning and hardly…
Continue ReadingHiking the Birch Forest
Hiking the Birch Forest. Today was time to head out hiking the Birch Forest. The weather has been perfect recently for foraging for fungi so I headed out into the woods to see if I could spot any. As we started to walk into the birch forest i could see there where many slippery jacks…
Continue ReadingForaging for edible Fungi
A day out in the woods after a very damp couple of days means foraging for edible fungi if conditions are good you are sure to find some fungi. Before I start this isn’t a post to help you identify fungi, I know what I know and I keep to that. If you are not…
Continue ReadingDD Hammocks Superlite Tarp
I’ve been toying with the idea of replacing my 3×3 tarp with a DD Hammocks Superlite Tarp. A tiny bit smaller but weighs in at 460gms. A perfect tarp for backpacking to keep the weight down. The DD Superlight Tarp has 19 attachment points like their other tarps which allows it to be set-up in literally hundreds of…
Continue ReadingLightweight multi use hammock and tarp tents
Lightweight multi use hammock and tarp tents. I like the idea of having a choice of whether to hang between the trees or ground dwelling when there are no trees or weather and environment puts you on the ground. You have the ability to adapt and also being lightweight you are not carrying items that…
Continue ReadingWild camping on the beach. Micro adventure.
Micro adventure wild camping on the beach. Wild camping on the beach it is then (we said at 4:00 on a night shift. I always say try to fit work around my life and not the other way around. I work a shift pattern which is different to friends that enjoy the same interests. It…
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Bobotie is a very old South African dish with probable origins in Indonesia or Malaysia. The name derives from the Indonesian “bobotok,” and the dish was likely adapted by Dutch traders and brought back to the region around Cape Town. Somewhat of a national dish, every South African cook has his or her own favorite…
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