 Right I'm here just to camp in this old woodland folly. It's pretty cool and I'm just going to spend the evening here. I'm in the Hillyburg Allac too so I'm going to pitch that up and cook up a little bit of food. Nothing too fancy and spend the night under the stars. There's a chill in the air but you can feel spring. You can feel it in there that you know the flowers that are shooting through the primrosees, daffodils and whatnot and you can see the little buds coming out on the trees. It's a lovely time of year, I love this time of year. So I think once I've got set up and I've got my tent up and everything I'm going to have a little forage and see what I can find. See if I can find some wild early spring edibles to put with me tea. Let's find a decent specimen. There's a good, there's a decent specimen look. Scarlet elf cup look. Lovely and these are edible, edible fungus. They don't look edible, they look a bit, you would think oh that's a warning but they are edible and I'll keep these to go along with the banquet. Nice little collection. I don't want to take too many. I've got a bit of my own food with me so I don't really need too much. They don't even be a waste. It's just for a bit of flavour and just to get some of that early spring vibes. And this for those of you that don't know and this is for people that just don't know. There's plenty of people who watch, sorry, I'll get better at that. There's plenty of people who watch who don't know about foraging and whatnot so this is for you guys. Everyone who knows about it apologies if it's just recycled information but it's the edge we're living. Cover me, cover me, barn it, yeah I focus on that instead of my grill. There you are. Primrose and the flower and the leaves everything of the plant is edible. I'm going to take some of the flowers and some of the small leaves. Again I don't want to take too much. I don't need it but it's a nice little addition. I'd quite like to find some ramsans if I can. Oh here we go, that leaves just as well while we're here. Come on face, why wouldn't it be kind and focus you. Anyway there you go, wood sorrel. It's a lovely lovely little leaf this. It's really cool when you eat it you don't really get anything in it. It builds up and it's a bit like, it's citrusy and it's a little bit like apple skin I think. So I have a bit of this in pocket, it's not a great deal of it. I found this fallen ash tree and ash is always a great host for these. King Alfred's cakes or cramp balls you might know them as a bushcraft staple but I've not had any of these in my fire lighting kit for some time so I find the ones underneath the tree to be a lot better because they're dead as a disgust. They're good, they're good ones. There you go. Cramp balls, I'll put them in my pocket and they might be dry enough to get our fire going tonight with. If not I'll just leave them by the fire and add them to my kit or we'll get our morning fire going with them. We'll see. We'll get out a Jill Free card. Don't go out in my fire kit. I'll just use this. I'll have to put it in my pocket, dry it out. Right, the beauty of the Alak-2, the tent, the Hillyburg Alak-2 is that it's self-sanding so we can actually pitch it on this hard floor without having to use pegs because it's quite sheltered here and it's not forecast to be windy so let's give it one of them mate. Let's crotch shot it. Because if we're being honest it looks cool doesn't it? That does look cool in here. That is cool but I'm worried about it. I'm worried that it's tuned in. I've probably even got a couple of guy lines in just in case but I do worry about that. So you can pick it up like the Hillyburg but that's a bit better that way around. Shall I tell you my problem of worry is that my fireplace is there. I'm worried that it's going to spit at me a tent and that would suck. I've totally bottled it mate. Tee hee hee bottled it. I've bottled it. The tent was too close to the fire and if I get an hole in this mate I'll be absolutely devastated. Right let's have a quick look round the setup for all you setup fans. I'm in the Hillyburg, it's the Alak2. Possibly the last trip I'll have in it we'll have to see how things pan out. Look at that beautiful loads of space. I've got it with the footprint there as well and then I've got my army softies ready for when it gets cold. X-Therm, NeoAir, Extra Large, AlpKit 400, Pipe Dream Down sleeping bag, C to Summit Pillow. I've got my sleeping bag liner in there as well. And that's it. Bit of water, not drinking today. It's a simple basic setup. I've got a little lantern in here that I put on when I get into bed just if I want to read or whatever. And that's it man. It's the same stuff but if you're new to the channel then these are the things I use. I've got an Amazon shop page that I've had for a while now and it's in the link below if you want to have a look. I just put stuff in there that I have, that I use, that I recommend. You can go and have a look in there, buy your stuff through that and I get a little bit of a kickback and it helps me out at no extra cost to you. So, happy days. Right, I've come away from camp to this clearing where I'm looking down into the valley and I'm just going to sit in my back against this tree and just see what comes, see if I can see any deer or owls or anything. Just take it all in, just do a little bit of nature spotting. I know it's already a fireplace but I still want to leave it as I found it and leave as little trace as possible so it's worth doing it properly. Right, I've got a little bit of birch bark in there, some bracken and what not but I'm going to see if one of these cramp balls takes the spark and see if we can get it going one of them. It's not seems pretty dry this one. I'm going to create a nest out of this bracken and you see that's on fire now so we don't have to worry about that. I can put it down there for a bit while I gather my thoughts. I might even gather my gloves. The good thing is that'll stay now. That'll just stay on fire down there smoldering away while I put some sticks on the outside so it keeps it all together. There you go, that's better. Just barkless. On the safe side. Oh shit. There's butterflies, get out mate. Get out, get out guys, come on. No. Oh dude, sorry. Oh, I've released it, yes. Don't fault me. Are you all right Giza? Oh mate, there must have been, oh no. So these lads must have been chilling in the chimney because they fell down. They fell down his mate. I saved his mate, his mate managed to fly away. Worse like what should I do with him? So, buzzing that his mate got away like. I'm going to go away to start again. Right, I'm going to have to get you away from here mate because you'll get stood on. Come on mate, get on there. Get on here mate. Can I save you? Right, let's take him somewhere safe. Look at, look at, he's gone look. So camouflaged man. Right, let's take him over here. Where will he be safe do you think? Pop him in here look. Chill out. Oh he wants to come with me look. Oh no. Oh cool. Good advert for Illyberg that innit? The butterfly whisperer. Oh you're all right mate, I've got you. I've got you mate. He's walking with his wings up. What's going to happen is he's going to take off and I'm going to crack it. There he is look, butterfly whisperer. Right, come on then Giza, let's get you. I don't want you to get eaten mate, there he is. Right, come on little guy, let's put him over here. You're going to come with me, didn't you? You're part of squadron. Try not to touch his wings because it's not good for him. There you go, blow him off. There you go, stay there mate until you gather your thoughts. That's it. Camouflaged AF, there he goes. Right hopefully he'll just blend in here until he feels up to it and then he'll make a move. See you later mate, good luck. It's made me happy that. Patrick saved three butterfly, three peacock butterflies saved. There you go, that's happy, happy times. I'll have to let my fire go out real quick. You can have the butterflies mate but you can't cook your dinner. I need the butterfly I guess. You don't want to use too much roder dendron wood if you can help it because the smoking of a clever fire so we've switched it up. The main logs and the main girth of it I won't be using road is old faithful. I'm not splitting anything too big this time. I was thinking I wasn't going to split anything but this is ash. I'm almost sure it's ash. It's hard to tell when things aren't in leaf but I know me mountain ash and you can hear very seasoned. So I've just got old faithful, I'm just going to split a few little bits up. Got a nice rack of lamb, so fat side down. I'll season it afterwards and then just put it on the coals. I'm not mucking about, I'm just having simple food today. Chuck some peppers on, broccoli. In fact I'll put the broccoli on after because that's not going to take too long is it? I'm doing me peppers, peppers and lamb. I've got that for a little rig, I've just took my grill into the pointing gap there. Suspended it so I smell good already. Here's my peppers done, can't see them because it's dark. Child peppers, my broccoli that's done nice and soft and warm and then oh look at that the piester. Nice mate, nice. That is a banquet, that looks tasty. Let you have a little look and then I'll just bat on because I'm hungry. I can't believe Bob has been blinded by this light. I can't believe I'm showing you broccoli. Ah, absolutely. It takes on a whole different flavour over the fire, it goes almost nutty. Pepper, oh my God juicy, look at the juice coming out. Very happy, there we go. Out she cooked, that's the question. Perfectly, thank you very much. I don't know if you can see. Nice and pink and then nice and caramelised on the outside. Pink they can see the juice dripping off it. It's cooked perfectly, nice and pink and then fully cooked on the other side. That is a good, that is good. Let's get into it, oh my goodness. Done, I've done. When I'm looking there you are. I can't quite, can you see the juice just coming out? Oh my word, so simple, gets so delicious. Really healthy as well, there's no oil, butter, no seasoning. We'll just put a little bit of salt on. Honestly dude, if you could smell that. Look at that, pink and just, oh my God it's dripping. Right, I'm going to log off with this one because I'm going to enjoy it and that light is hampering my enjoyment by singeing me retinas. I'm just going to stare at Bushcraft TV for a couple of hours and then hit the hay. Totally in there look, I'm in there like Shinobi or Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, no, Yorkshire Sub-Zero. Anyway, as you can see I've got the vents open on the tent because there's not much wind so just to air outside a caution so we don't get any condensation of just open the vents. There's so many options with this tent as far as, you know, with what you can do as far as the zips and how many zips there are and the different ways that you can ventilate the tent for all different seasons and temperatures. Anyway, that's interesting fact for you. Content mate, I've got a lovely warm glow on me from just sitting in front of that fire for ages. I've got my army softies on and my marina wool base layer. So warm as, so unless something magical or tragical happens I shall see thee on the morrow. Where am I? There I am. Ow, morning glamp, ow. Ah, morning glampers. Too bright this light mate, right. Slept well, toasty and warm, no mad noises or anything. And it's just at that stage now that, and I said it before, it's like a DJ with two records. He's got the night birds, the owls and everything like that and then the day birds and he's just in the mix at the moment so you've got your owls and you've got your dawn chorus as well so it's pretty good. It's six o'clock, I've got work today so it's an early start. I'm not going to muck about, I'm going to get fire going, a little bit of breakfast on the go and then I'm going to maybe dunk my junk on the way out. We'll see, we'll see. I've got some hand warmers just in case. So that means get up if you know you know. Let's get the tent tidied up, look, yeah. Let's get a fire going. There you go. I forgot to put that camera on. Hey, you didn't miss out. You didn't miss out, it was just, I just used a cotton wool ball, spark, boom. There's still a bit of residual heat in it from last night to be fair. Chop some more wood, split some. I'm going to cook up these scarlet elf cups. Just clean them off, you see, they have a stalk there. They're just growing all sorts of dead timber and bits and pieces, right? I'm going to clean them up. Can't tell you how nice that is. There you go. That's a landfill. The good thing about cooking oil is like, use it in there for cooking, isn't it? It's good just to rub on your blades and your handle keeps the rust off, keeps it looking good. So I'm going to go in with the elf cups. And these don't take long, pushing it when you're lambing them like that. I'm going to go in with a few of these. Just a bit of primrose, a bit of wood sorrel, a little crack of salt in there. Warm my bacon back up. Let's give it a go. I'm hungry, mate, hungry. Let's go in on the elf cup. Lovely, lovely texture. Wow, nice one. Oh my word. Simply delicious, really delicious. You can see the scarlet there. Thank you Mother Nature and the butchers. It's a beautiful morning. It's still not even seven o'clock. I get to do all this and then go to work. I feel fresh as a daisy. Wow, she's lovely. I stopped filming myself eating. Look at that, mate. Absolutely, what a breakfast. I'm going to eat this and then we'll think about getting the fire squared away. Leave no trace. Thoroughly enjoyed that one. There's a couple of miles hike out to the truck. If I find a suitable body of water, I might be tempted, might be tempted to diva Jay. But let's have a look. It looks murky. You can't really see what's in there, but hopefully it's not too wacky. Let's get in. There's only one way to find out, isn't there? That's getting in. Got these though, waiting for me. There's nothing there, mate. It doesn't even look deep enough to plunge. Well, excuse all pudding there, lads, because I've had quite the Christmas, and I know we're in March now, but I'm still blaming it on Christmas. How long have I got till summer? Can I get hench? Can I get hench in a few weeks? Or what? What do you call them, mate? Undefeated? Yeah, bro. Invigorating. Yash. Tell you what, it's chilly on digits, but hand warmers, mate. That's just... That's a lottery win right there. Look at that, on digits. Beautiful. Lovely layer of frost, and the sun's hitting it, and it's melting, and there's steam, there's mist. It's just a beautiful morning. I feel great now. I feel absolutely great after a night in the woods and a dip, just ready for the day. So for the people that were asking, I've got a few more patches back in stock on the shop, the leave no trace patches, so if you'd like to get one and help support the channel, please do. Also, new this just in is a new combo, though. It's a mirror, the hairs on there, because and you get with it a badge. And the reason for this, I was trying to think of something that people could buy to help support the channel, but then it was that you could also use maybe when you're out and about, and this is perfect for if you're out solo camping, you get something in your eye, it's perfect for being able to see it, or thorns or ticks in unsightly areas that you can't see yourself, you can just take it out from wherever you can you can get to. It makes a good signal mirror, to have if you're in the mountains or whatever and it's a thin look and that slides now into my first aid kit and if you like to do your selfies on the top of the mountain what better thing to have than to get your hair done, get your makeup done and look fresh for all your fans on Myspace. I'll leave a link for this combo below the video so if you'd like to get one to help support the channel that would be much appreciated right I'll be back soon not sure when but I will be back soon take care of yourselves, look after each other but mainly yourself because how can you look after anyone else if you're not looking after yourself peace namaste much love you know what as well as I just walk this way I know that just there there's a river so I don't even know what I just plunged my plum in there so I can't get away with it this is a thing now isn't it love you bye