Fenlander’s Natural Lore Blog
Blog URL http://naturallore.wordpress.com/
Located Newmarket, Suffolk United Kingdom
Tags bushcraft, wilderness living, primitive skills, crafts, nature, wildlife, Lapland, Sweden
Nature, Outdoor & wilderness living skills, traditional & primitive skills and crafts
Latest Blog Posts
- Flexcut interchangeable Tools on Nov 20, 2009 in Crafts Equipment Tools carving kuksa spoon spoon gouge wooden cup
My third recent purchase was a set of interchangeable carving tools made by Flexcut. I bought their quick connect palm handle and then from their range of tools selected four that I thought would be most useful. Three are from their #6 sweeps and...
- Fiskars hatchet on Nov 17, 2009 in Crafts Equipment Tools Trees Ash green woodworking leather firesteel axe hatchet
Another item I recently purchased was a small hatchet to use for carving as I left my Elwell axe at my cabin Ignore the Wilkinson Sword stamp on the handle because the hatchet is actually made by a Finnish company called Fiskars. Other companies s...
- Lifeventure titanium cup on Nov 14, 2009 in Crafts Equipment Fire craft Food and Drink Natural Materials Tools Trees aluminium coffee crusader cup drink fire Hazel
I find that day-to-day living in the UK my crusader cup is rather large for my needs so I recently purchased a Lifeventure titanium mug. In order to boil water in the cup I wanted to make a lid so firstly I cut out an aluminium disk. I drew around...
- Lapland autumn 2009 – 24th September part 2 on Nov 11, 2009 in Equipment Fire craft Food and Drink Lapland Shelter Swedish Lapland Travel and navigation autumn cabin coffee fire food lunch Sweden
We headed off away from the bear den and after walking a while Teres spotted a beer bottle pushed under a fallen tree. Amazingly she could remember having sat there with her friend when she was 15, drinking the bottle of beer and after they had fin...
- Lapland autumn 2009 – 24th September part 1 on Nov 8, 2009 in Crafts Lapland Natural Materials Nature Plants Spruce Swedish Lapland Tracks and signs Travel and navigation Trees Wildlife Brown Bear cabin kuksa leather Sweden
The morning started with me sanding cups and Teres sewing leather bags The temperature was -2 degrees and it had been -7 in the night but at least it was sunny After cleaning the cabin (as it would be our last day there) we decided to go walking in...
- Lapland autumn 2009 – 23rd September on Nov 5, 2009 in Crafts Food and Drink Lapland Natural Materials Swedish Lapland Travel and navigation Trees Birch cabin kuksa Sweden tipi
We spent the morning collecting fallen trees from the forest for next years fire wood. Its so much easier to drag them back when there are two people!!! I also carried back the tipi poles and stored in the cabin roof. I spent the rest of the morni...
- Lapland autumn 2009 – 22nd September on Nov 2, 2009 in Crafts Fire craft Food and Drink Lapland Nature Plants Reindeer Travel and navigation Wildlife cabin coffee kuksa Sweden
I spent some time teaching Teres how to use a firesteel and while we were out collecting water from the spring, I challenged her to make fire and a pot of coffee. So as not to pressure her I went walking in the forest. I was walking along the e...
