Walk of the week.

I have set us as a family a task of going for a weekly walk in a variety of naturely settings, be it woodland, seaside, heathland, hills etc.

During this weekly outing we will be learning about the area or reserves we visit and gaining knowledge about the wildlife and the adaptations of the plant life, trees and whatever else we can find.

So now I will be hoping to add a weekly blog about our walks and adventures together. 

I'm very excited about the prospect of spending quality time with my family and the rest is just a big fat bonus, happy days :)
 

(The aim of the game is to gain more knowledge about the wildlife, flora and fauna in the areas we visit. Also my children, if they become interested will learn about why these areas are important and why we need to look after them. )

My Mora Companion.

 

I thought I'd share a couple of pictures and an explanation for my chosen carving knife.

Here it is..

It is a stainless steel Mora Companion knife with the luminous orange colour so just in case I drop it in the woods, I can find it quite easily. With this knife, there are a selection of colours available.

I have chosen this knife because it is great for game preparation, splitting and carving.

I have also chosen this knife because i got to borrow one for a weekend while learning Bush craft skills with the great team of instructors from Woodland Ways.

A key bonus with this knife is that it is very cost effective indeed at under £20 with post and packing from a number of retailers.

First things first.

Right, well then. There are two things that I want to blog about as I feel very passionate about these subjects. Number one is being a parent an to bring my children up the best way I can. Secondly, learning survival skills and letting my children learn along the way about survival.

Here, there is (hopefully) going to be a regularly updated blog that will;

A) Help to show my kids some basic survival skills
B) Help me to slowly learn more about how our ancestors got by
C) Be an informative and fun source of information (no pressure then)

D) Keep some sort of record of activities for the kids to read later on in life

E) Help to write down and deal with everyday parenting challenges 

As far as parenting goes, there is no manual, every kid is different and so the way to deal with them. I am in my 6th year of being a parent to my two boys and the rewards are brilliant.

At the moment, I only have a very basic knowledge of very few techniques with regards to survival. By doing this blog as regularly as possible, it will give me the 'oomph' to carry on learning and searching for further ideas and adventures so I can blog about them.

I think, on a personal level, that in this day and age we (in the western world especially) are too reliant on taking the car to the supermarket, buying processed food, meat, bread etc. If there happened to be some sort of apocalypse (a bit extreme, I know), how many of us could actually survive? Okay, not to be too extreme about things, the oil runs out, we have no car and the supermarket has run out of food. Could I survive? The answer is... A big fat NO!!

So with these skills I hope to learn (and put into action), by the time something may happen, either myself or my children or their children will have this inner instinct and knowledge that has been long forgotten in this modern era.

So here it goes..