We had an absolutely cracking day up in the Antrim hills smelting ore into iron in a primitive clay furnace, I had never seen it done this way before except in YouTube videos, so this was a completely new experience for me.. I'm not even going to say anything about the day, you will gauge how fantastic it was from the pictures alone!! Enjoy..
I love old lures, well I love lures in general but the older ones tend to get neglected for all the modern fancy ones we use.
So I presented myself with a challenge, I had to use a lure that was at least 50 years old on my recent fishing escapade, no modern lures allowed!
It actually took a while to cycle through some lazy ikes, creek chub pikies and river runts until I found one that worked, the good old midget digit, first made in 1948 and last production run was 1974..
At this time of year, young fresh growth of certain trees like willow and Hazel can be made into a rough, tough form of cordage or binding material called withies.
To make these, hold the end of the young branch in both hands and twist in opposite directions, this starts the internal fibres breaking,
It's that time of year when Feedspot list their top 25 Bushcraft Blogs and Buzzard is very pleased to announce that we again made it into that list, as a matter of fact we came in at number 6!
At this time of year all the lovely greens are sprouting, but the issue can be that if they all come up at the same time they can be tricky to distinguish from one another when they are young.
So here's a test for you, 3 new leaves, 3 different plants, ground ivy, herb Bennett and lesser celandine.. but which one is which?
I meant to put this post up a few weeks back but it slipped my mind and I only remembered after our recent visit to our permission.
Storm Eowyn did some serious damage to the forest and brought down quite a number of trees, the scary thing was, 3 fell right over one of my favourite camping spots. I had often heard the trees knock against each other in high winds and it was always in the back of my mind that one could come down on me, I'm very glad I wasn't there when the storm hit...
And the donimo effect, this beech toppled taking an oak and a sycamore with it, not all trees get hung up when they fall, I will have to be incredibly careful when camping there again, the trees are all so shallow rooted there's no telling when they'll drop. Be safe out there folks!
It's awe inspiring to see all of creation start to come to life at this time of year, the colours and scents of the plants are wonderful and they fill my heart with the wonder of creation. How anyone can look at nature and say it is all a random process that happened by chance is totally beyond me, they must be willfully suppressing the truth. Here are a few pics I took while we were out today, I hope you too can see the Handiwork of God in them..
