Early May Bank Holiday Friday saw JP and I struggling against his obstinate Land Rover in an attempt to get down the Egerton in Kent. To be fair it only broke down properly once. this, unfortunately, happened to be on Britian’s busiest motorway at the point where the busiest motorway is at it’s busiest. The M25 tolls. JP managed to get it started just as the tow truck arrived!
We set up our unique Parazebo and set out our ever increasing table of skulls, scat, tracks and feeding signs.
Thanks to Phil Brown from Badger Bushcraft for the loan of some of his great specimens.
During the weekend JP carried out game prep and knife safety sessions while I did an intro to tracking and natural camouflage session – all of which went down very well. There’s some more pics on Phil’s blog.
Kids and adults alike enjoyed looking through the owl pellets, separating and identifying the tiny bones and skulls of shrew, vole and field mouse from the pellets.
Apart from the sessions, the weekend was a great social event and we managed to get away for a great evening down the pub with superb food. Other evenings were spent catching up with old friends and chatting around the fire with a seemingly never ending flow of rum, port and more rum!
It was glorious weather throughout the weekend, spoilt only by a strong, gusting wind on pack-up day that bent one of the Parazebo's struts! Never mind. There are plans for a mark 2 version!
Thanks for the visit.
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