Black Mysterious Tea
My little one, bushcraft, outdoors, eco-friendly & just stuff
Spring 2013
03 months ago
Today Bella and I tidied up the garden after winter, we had a great time and it only really took the afternoon!
The first thing we did was empty our bird feeders. These have mostly been used by the squirrels, and most of the seed has been left untouched, which could be the red kites (which [...]
Car winter survival kit & snow socks
04 months ago
I am a prepper. There I said it.
I am not a nut, nor am I preparing for nuclear war/ the collapse of society/ alien invasion; I prep for more mundane things such as power cuts, or my car not starting in winter, or being stuck in my car in the snow.
That is what this post is all about; preparing to [...]
Using a Gränsfors Bruks Small Forest Axe to cut up a big tree
04 months ago
Last year I chopped down a big tree that had been threatening to damage a neighbouring property. I also (a bit earlier) got my first axe, a Gränsfors Bruks Small Forest Axe, and a wood grenade.
After a bit of a delay (a few months) I have now finished cutting up (into fuel sized pieces) what was [...]
Pea and Potato Crop 2013
14 months ago
Last year our pea and potato harvest was not the best. Of course you can’t expect to get much out of a small raised planter, during the worst summer on UK record but this year we are going to try to “maximise our return” (grow more stuff) by getting started a bit earlier.
Last year we planted our [...]
PhotoIRmote CableMod for Olympus RM-UC1
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Late last year I borrowed my mother in laws DSLR camera for a weekend. 5 months later I returned it (following repeated requests), I loved it and the photos it made possible, and I also began planning some types of photo I’d like to take, like Star Trails. The (recommended) way of taking these with [...]
Chemical Fire
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DO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING AT YOUR OWN RISK. IN FACT DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING. CLEAR? GOOD!
This post sadly lacks any photos of actual fire, but if you would like to know what this is about do a Google search on “video potassium glycerol“. Cool isn’t it!
I first saw this [...]
Chutneys, Jams and Jellies
05 months ago
A month or so ago I wrote a series of posts about chutneys, jellies and jams, but I didn’t write anything about how they tasted (as I didn’t know), so here is a short post on how they all turned out. (more…)
Mountains!
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So my last post was a bit rubbish (as was the total lack of any posts in December). Here then are some fantastic shots from a climbing weekend earlier in the month.
This year was the 10th annual BOGIES (Bath Old Git’s in Exile) Graduate Mountaineering club, we stayed in Pete’s Eats Flat (a bit of a [...]
Merry Christmas!
05 months ago
by Ed
in Uncategorized
Hi there, and Merry Christmas!
I have been rubbish this month, but stuff has been happening, and I hope once the panic of Christmas is over to get back to blogging soon.
Have a great 2013!
Ed
Squirrel proof?
17 months ago
A few weeks ago we put up some bird feeders in our garden. Like many people in the UK we have a local Grey Squirrel problem, so we went for squirrel proof bird feeders. This week we noticed our food going down very quickly, great! Lots of birdies we thought, but no it was just one squirrel. [...]
