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Welcome to the Logbook, a place for us to share our adventures, outdoor knowledge and campfire recipes, along with insights into the way we make our products and the work we do around our woodland studio. For regular updates be sure to find us on Substack.
Photos and thoughts from a week of woodland management work with Wild Sussex in a beautiful small woodland in Surrey.
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Week Ten of our nature journal features fungi, life and death, meadow grass and adventures further afield for the first time in months.
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Week Nine of our Nature Journal featuring encounters with roe deer, reptiles, grasshoppers and bees!
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Our nature journal continues into its eighth week. This selection includes may bugs, golden oak trees, honeysuckle flowers and cosy bees.
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Week seven of our lockdown nature journal. Summer is in the air, there are dragonflies, damselflies and baby woodpeckers in this round up!
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Week six of our lockdown nature journal. The magic of maple flowers, purple haze and summer snow.
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Week 4 & 5 of our nature journal. We find oak apples and beefly, maple leaves glow in the evening sunlight and the cuckoo is calling once more.
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Week three of our series of nature journal posts. In this one we notice seedlings growing in unlikely places, bees buzzing, tiny flowers and wild cherry blossom in full bloom. Plus an exciting encounter with a grass snake!
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Week two of our photographic nature journal. Featuring crackling pines, ghostly broom and blackthorn blossom amongst others.
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Week one of our photographic nature journal documenting spring under lockdown. This week sees ferns unfurling, new flowers emerging and the sound of wind in the pine trees foretelling the change in weather.
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On Saturday 25th January we headed into the woods for our first workshop of the decade. After postponing our autumn woodcarving workshop twice due to stormy weather, we were really looking forward to finally getting this one underway.
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This autumn has been a wet, windy and fairly dull affair here in the woods so far; a far cry from the two previous years which delivered warm sunny days and cold nights resulting in riotous displays of autumn colour. There has been one positive from all the wet weather however, our gaze has been diverted from the golden leaves above to the earth beneath our feet and an explosion of fungi working their mycelial magic amongst the leaf litter.
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Last weekend we headed down to a very wet and windy Wales to Plas Y Brenin to attend a Mountain Skills training course and we thought we’d share a few of the details and insights into our experience here.
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Bilberry, wimberry, whortleberry, blaeberry, Vaccinium myrtillus. Whatever you want to call them, foraging for these tiny flavour bombs is our favourite annual wild food excursion. This year was especially fun as it was the first that Benji was able to get amongst the plants and lend a hand, although, in truth, he ate more than he brought home. read on for our bilberry camping pancake recipe!
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Yesterday was the first truly warm day of spring so far; In the evening I took a short walk around the woods, chasing the fading orange light and taking mental notes on the activity of the fallow deer, when I heard a crackling, popping sound coming from the canopy. I looked up and around, expecting to see a grey squirrel munching on the pine cones but none could be found. No birds either. What could it be?
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This autumn has delivered the most riotous display of colour we have experienced since we moved into the woods. The weather at this time of year is typically characterised by deep areas of low pressure, all intent on ripping the leaves off the trees with their associated south westerly gusts before they reach their peak luminance.
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It's with great excitement that we can announce the launch of our 'Blank Canvas' rucksack made in collaboration with outdoors carry experts, Millican.
Our blank canvas conversation with Millican started over a year ago during the Keswick Mountain Festival. A few months later, we returned to the Lake District and Millican HQ for a weekend of campfires, cave exploration and hiking to help inspire us to develop a bag that best represented what we do here at Miscellaneous Adventures - the results of which we can finally share with you today.