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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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.
We have just wrapped up a busy week here in the woods selectively thinning a number of Scots pines (Pines sylvestris) as part of our long term management plan. Woodland management is a complicated business, one which I have conflicting views on. In truth I loathe the idea of ‘managing’ any part of nature in any way. Management sounds sterile and dull, yet nature is chaotic, messy and pulsing with living energy. I am an advocate of allowing natural processes to take place and learning from nature by watching events unfold.
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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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After what has been a cold, grey winter, the promise of sunshine and frosty mornings up North was too much to resist, so we headed on a last minute trip to the Lake District for a mini winter adventure…
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This year, we bring you our Christmas Giving Guide. For the last few years we've put together a traditional gift guide but in light of recent political events we decided that this Christmas should be about giving, helping and taking action.
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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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For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to build my own house or a cabin in the woods somewhere, and having the ability to make things with my hands and a shed full of tools accumulated over the years and a good reason, it seemed like now was the right time to give it a try. When I had visions of building a cabin, I imagined it would be built from round timber and I would build the whole thing with hand tools; axes and gouges, Dick Proenekke style.
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On the last weekend in August, we loaded up the Delica with our tools and camping gear and set off to Campfire Stories, an outdoors micro festival held in The Netherlands. The festival was founded by long time friend of Misc Adventures, Selfa Verlaat, in 2017 and is a weekend of activities, inspirational talks and learning all set in the beautiful surroundings of the Roggebotstaete estate.
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A while back we had the idea to create a series of handmade flags to help us promote our creative studio and as a way for us to collaborate on a creative project; Andrew on illustration and Emma on sewing. We collaborated with our friends at Millican who provided us with the fabric, read more and see the full set here.
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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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At 7pm last Sunday evening, we decided it would be a great idea to make a last minute dash to Cornwall to beat the school holiday crowds and make the most of the sunny forecast and the promise of a little wave…
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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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After a lot of thinking, we’ve decided it’s time to return to our roots (pun intended) and to only supply wooden goods and things we have made ourselves in our store. No more mugs, tees or other trinkets. Read on to find out why.
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This June we embarked on a family holiday to the mountains of Snowdonia in search of woodland, waterfalls and toddler friendly outdoor adventures…
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I’ve just finished making a small batch of our wooden cups and thought I’d share what goes in to the making of our Wild Spirit Drinking Vessels and Polaris Coffee Cups. These are our own versions of the traditional drinking vessel of the far north, the kuksa, guksi or noggin depending on where you’re from. We first encountered cups like this on a trek in the far north of Sweden; seeing hikers use these to scoop up icy water from mountain streams was one of the things that inspired me to pick up my axe and start making things from wood, eventually creating Miscellaneous Adventures.
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Last year we made the difficult decision to stop running our regular workshop calendar and focus on hosting private groups and bespoke events instead. But when the first signs of spring started to emerge this February, we couldn’t resist the urge to arrange a Woodland Wooodcarving Workshop coinciding with bluebell season…
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‘Nature, Creativity, Adventure’. The combining of creativity with our outdoor skills and love and knowledge of nature is what we believe makes Miscellaneous Adventures unique as a brand and design studio. So when Rachel from The Dulwich Picture Gallery approached us last year to ask if we would teach a creative workshop for their ‘Love your Landscape’ family festival, we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to do just that.
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We’re super excited to share with you the latest publication from our good friends, Calum and Lauren of The Rolling Home. ‘The Culture of Vanlife’ is a documentation of all things camp vehicle told through the personal accounts of van dwellers, dreamers and adventurers - including us!
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Around this time every year, we head into the woods to cook up an outdoor feast to celebrate midwinter, the forthcoming festive season and to toast the year past. This year we decided to focus on creating a liquid accompaniment to our feasting, something warming that celebrated the season, something that tasted like Christmas in drinkable form.
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Following on from last week's 'Give Less, Give Well' gift guide, we wanted to share with you a few of our own products that we think will make ideal Christmas gifts. We hope you’ll agree…
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