Last weekend I spent a very enjoyable weekend at Assington Mill near Colchester;
http://www.assingtonmill.co.uk/ where they run a variety of courses.
On Saturday we had a "Food for free" course
which involved a walk in the morning to collect plants and fungi, then following a pleasant lunch of rabbit stew, the afternoon was spent learning recipes such as this pigeon salad
and how to prepare game.
On Sunday I ran a one day bushcraft course there, so having set up the parachute and prepared teaching aids, I settled down for an evening by the fire.
It rained heavily all night, but I managed to keep dry under the parachute and kept the fire going all night for warmth. By 7am I was up and preparing breakfast.
The students for my course arrived at 10am and after tea and coffee, we began with firelighting; covering different ways of making fire, tinders and fuel to use.
Everyone managed to get an ember with the bow-drill.
At lunchtime we had soup and cooked sausages on and bannock on sticks.
After lunch we moved into the woodland where the students made a lean-to shelter and a bough bed.
This weekend I will be back at Assington Mill on a
Coracle making course.
Once the sausages were cooked I wrapped bannock dough around the sausages and cooked them again.
An interesting observation for natural navigation today was this pond sedge.
The sedge having been regularly blown by the prevailing wind (coming from the south west) was pointing in a north easterly direction.
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and how to prepare game.
On Sunday I ran a one day bushcraft course there, so having set up the parachute and prepared teaching aids, I settled down for an evening by the fire.
It rained heavily all night, but I managed to keep dry under the parachute and kept the fire going all night for warmth. By 7am I was up and preparing breakfast.
The students for my course arrived at 10am and after tea and coffee, we began with firelighting; covering different ways of making fire, tinders and fuel to use.
At lunchtime we had soup and cooked sausages on and bannock on sticks.
After lunch we moved into the woodland where the students made a lean-to shelter and a bough bed.
This weekend I will be back at Assington Mill on a Coracle making course.
