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Our friend Pete aka 'The Joker' on the forum has set himself a very courageous challenge of living off the land for one whole month! He is doing this to raise money for an great cause, all the money that he raises will be going to the Shooting Star Chase Childrens Hospice.

Pete named his challenge "One Woodland, One Fat Bloke, One Month" as he is intending to loose a few pounds whilst he's living wild and at the same time raise many pounds for charity.

Let's hope he knows his daisys from his dandelions & survives the month! We wish him all the best and hopes he raises lots of money toward this good cause. We will keep you posted on his progress.

If you would like to support his cause then please donate on his webpage here.

You can read the forum discussion about this challenge here.

NaturalBushcraft.co.uk has been voted 'Best Bushcraft Online Content' in the Best in Bushcraft Awards 2011!

I would like to dearly thank all the visitors and members who voted for my website in the awards, I greatly appreciate all the support you give and couldn't do it with you all.

You inspire me to get out there and produce more content to share, so thank you.

All the best,

- Ashley Cawley.

I would like to tell you about a wonderful website, blog and generous man called Nick Gallop...

Over the Christmas period I was lucky enough to spot an interesting post in Nick's Blog at www.skillsforwildlives.com where as part of Nick's downsizing he was giving away lots of superb outdoorsy/Bushcraft books for free.

A very generous act and a beautiful way of passing on skills & knowledge, I don't doubt that his actions will inspire many over time.

I completely support Nick's mission with his website and highly recommend you check his site out and perhaps subscribe to his email newsletter. This is his mission...

• Bringing you practical bushcraft and wilderness skills
• Giving you self-reliance rather than reliance on more and more fancy kit
• Giving you confidence in the outdoors
• Promoting environmental awareness in the outdoors

Here is one of the books I received from Nick, I will post about the other two later on.

Living Wood

A book about Green woodworking, Chair Bodging, Building Pole-lathes & other woodworking tools.

I've started reading this book first as I'm sure I will find it inspiring, I'm only a fraction of the way into this book but I'm already whittling more!

Building a pole-lathe is one of those things that is on my "list of things to do one day".. and you never know with the good diagrams and instructions in this book it might just get me making and using one soon.

Cleaving, trimming, sawing, chopping & carving... if your interested in learning more about working wood then this is the book for you.

Remember to checkout www.skillsforwildlives.com

Congratulations to our competition winner: Ray Fairbanks from North Lincolnshire! Ray has won himself a signed copy of the book: Ray Mears Outdoor Survival Handbook which will be on its way to you in the post shortly.

The Answer to the question (When was Woodlore founded?) was 1983.

Posted by Ashley Cawley

After a weekend in the woods, I returned to find that the NaturalBushcraft YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/naturalbushcraft had passed the 3,000 Subscriber mark! Which I was very happy about.

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