 Hello, welcome to another video. Yes, I am talking on this one, so don't worry, for all you chatter fans. I'm out in woods to get a bit of woodland time and I'm keeping it super simple, just a tap, tap on floor ground sheet. I've just put this tap in a plough formation up around a tree, pegged it out. It's three stakes that I've just knocked up out of wood, tied off to a tree, my firm roll mat, sleeping bag. That's it, shall we go through it while you're here? What we got? Rab, neutrino 600, which is sort of a three season bag, but we're not in the depths of winter now, so I get away with a three season bag most of the time because I've got my army softies and marino wool layers, so I just layer up, get in there, I'll be fine. It's raining, it's sort of spitting at moment, but it's forecast a lot more rain, so hopefully we should be nice and dry. This will shed the rain perfectly, if needs be, I can put a stick up here just to give it more edge room, but what I've done is I've tied a stick round some paracord and launched it up further than I can reach. Which gives me quite a lot of height, and it's the perfect shelter, there's absolutely loads of room in here. You could swing a bat or whatever they say, tickle a ferret, do what you want, do what you want. Do what you want with what you want in here, it's pretty nice. And this is my digs. I'm going to have a small contained fire just in front of it, nothing too rambunctious because obviously I don't want to set fire to my tarp, and we're close to a few trees as well, so just bring it away from the trees. Dig a nice fire pit and we'll just have a contained fire. I plan on doing a nice winter stew with a couple of little treats in there. Knackered man, I tell you what, the sound of even just that little pitter-patter on the tarp is very relaxing. So I'm hoping it rains a little bit more actually later on. We're in the UK, it rains all the time, done it so. There's no point in waiting for a day when it's not raining, just get out and make best of it, and that's what I'm doing. I don't have much daylight left, so I'm probably going to just get the fire prep now. You're under tarp, mate, it's raining, out at rain, sorry. You're right in there, mate. Are you good? Look at you. Living it up in there, aren't you? So you're under tarp now, away from rain, I'm out at rain. I can't help but feeling I've got short straw, but I'll take one for team, because if we don't get this fire going, we can't eat. Right, I'll have it closer without making it too many. Right, I don't want to get smoked out. So, and it's a big layer of pine, so it's going to take some digging down. In fact, that might be too soft. It's alright. We've got a good couple of inches until I'm down to this. Loamy stuff. So I'm going to clear a good area, so as not to get rid of all the roots. I mean, it's raining and it's forecast rain all day tomorrow, so I are too first, but it's still best to be on the safe side and just clear away everything that could catch, because I don't want it travelling under my bed either. And I've got plenty of water with me, so I can doubt it in the morning as well. We're spending a bit of time on this actually, because it is a decent layer. And there you go. Look, that's down to the bare earth there, so nothing can set fire or smolder overnight. Bit of a root in there, so we'll shiv that off. There you go. Loamy stuff, it's been suspended off the floor, so it's nice and dry. That can be our kindling done. Mae odd fe ffordd is for years. Just a little pouch. I don't know what was even in it. What was even in it? Oh, liner for a sleeping bag liner, I believe. We're going to do flint and steel for this one. Very simple. We've got some char cloth, which is said it so many times. It's just some 100% cotton. You pop in a tin, make sure there's an air hole in it somewhere, wherever it's the hinges or wherever you put a hole in it yourself. Pop it on a fire till smoke stops coming out the hole or hinges, and then there you go. Bob's you turn it, but you've got char cloth if you want it. We've got some grass, it's super dry, and we'll make a little divot in it. Rough that divot up a bit. That's where my ember will go. There. You see it? That will go into my bundle of joy. Don't wrap it too tight. Air is your friend. One more. Lying. There we go. That's fire. Going on with these little bits. I've got my 12. I think it's the 12cm Billy Can. Perfect for one person. I've got two people with this, and I'm just going to do a classic stew. I'm not going to brown the meat off or do anything fancy all in lid on, bosh. I'm not even going to peel my carrots. Just take the end off. I can quite chunky. I'm going to cook it for a long time, so they'll hold up. Won't go to mush. Carrot. A snip. I think I'll take this boy length ways. And then roughly chopped in with the snip. Whatever you want to call it mate. I'm not bothered. Call it what you want. You know. Is it a swede? Is it a turnip? Is it whatever mate? It doesn't matter does it? If you grew up calling it candy floss then it's on you mate. You do you. I don't care. Turnip. Little onion. Skins off. A bit more chunky carrot. I think. A bit of beef there with fat on. And now I'm going to just take a bit that fat off. I don't need it all. But I will have a little bit just for the flavour. A little bit of the fat in there. I don't want too much. We'll see about having some big old bits of this. It's going to be slow cooked anyway so it'll all be as tender as you like. So I want big chunky bits. It's raining man. I've lost my light. It's just got dark. So I'm having to do it bit torch while keeping out it raining. Hard work but it'll be worth it. Just smash up some garlic. Made you bits of skin can come off but it'll all. It's all edible innit. I'm going to kill you. Now normally I would fry off the meat at first with a little bit of seasoned flour. I'm just going to roll it in there like Turkish delight. It'll season it and also it'll thicken it up. It'll thicken the stew up as well. A few sprigs of thyme. I'll just put them in on the stalk so I can remove them after. Put a bit in like that much. On top. I've got sea salt and pepper mix. Just a bit of seasoning in there. The pier. The resistance. A northern monk. John Peeler BTW. Come on. Final one. Tom Joy. Shout out my boy Tom Joy photographer. Good lad. He came to the top of Ben Nevis with us. That's his final page one. He's been there from the beginning so big up you mate. It is coming in at a whopping 13.3%. It's a space-eyed imperial stout. Barrel aged. It's probably a bit of a sin putting in a stew innit. Put hairs on your hairs. In there we go with that. Getting there for four can because whatever. That's how we live in. A full can. Full send. Bit of water just to bring it to the top. Once it's fire with it. The handle stays up because of these metal clips which I added. I made them myself. I'll leave a link to the video there if you want to know how to make them cheap and easy to do. I should have brought another beer shouldn't I? There's one in pan. That's it. Tees on. I'll give that hour and a half to two hours just simmering up fire. The rain keeps coming and going. It's here at the moment. I don't know if you can hear it. Just like a drizzle on the top. It's quite nice. I'm going to be serving my stew in a giant Yorkshire pudding because I'm back up north. I've been down south quite a bit of late. So I've been struggling to make videos and that because I've got some life stuff going on. But I'm back up north for a little bit. So I thought I'd get out into woods and bring myself a giant Yorkshire pudding because Yorkshire. So I'm going to serve my stew in my giant Yorkshire pudding and yam it and then just chill out in here mate. There's loads of space in here and it's shedding the rain perfectly. It's a lovely setup and it affords me this wonderful view of the woods. It's so open. You can smell the stew wafting and it smells delightful. Oh can you hear it rain? The crackler, the fire and the rain on the top man. That's it innit? Soothing. Soothing. Got my little hurricane lantern. Obviously I've got my torch on while I'm doing like little bits of camera and stuff but when you're not on it's just... that just gives a lovely glow inside the shelter. It's perfect for me, it's all I need. Got enough wood prepped that'll probably cook my stew and just keep me warm. It's forecast rain all night and tomorrow so we'll see, we'll see how we get on. It is delightful. The fire's got enough residual heat to deal with this rain and I'm under this canopy so not a lot of it's getting through. It's just creating a really nice atmosphere on the tar. It's making me tired. Maybe ten more minutes and then I'll get stuck into it. Yeah I know it's cheating cos I've not cooked it out here but whatever mate. Whatever. It's warm through there. So I'm just going to warm it through on top of the billy can making sure it doesn't burn cos that will be tragic. Look at that. It's good to be alive innit? It's good to be alive when you... Oh it's already crisping up nice. It's crispy. Yorkshire. You play it's a bit too small innit? Or is it just perfect? It's perfect if it's perfectly in there. Look, it is. Let's get the stew off. Oh that smells so good. Yes. So we can have away with a bit of... So all the leaves have come off. The time you just left with the stalks. Get rid. Unctuous. All right. Parsnip. Let's just get it on. Get it on. I say it a lot because I cook a lot outdoors and stuff but the smell on this is insane mate. Right there we go look at that and then we'll put some of the gravy over it. Tell me that doesn't look delicious cos it does. Right ow ow cramp. Peter Crouch. Gives me knife. Om genius this is. Oh. Raw beef on it. That's all right. Let's put it on the fire. Sterilise it on the fire a little bit. Be reet. That's it. This light is kicking my face off. Well please don't drop it is all I'm saying. Here we go. I've been waiting for this for ages. Look at that. Are you... Come on focus face it doesn't matter about me. Get that din-dins in there. Look. Steak and ale stew in a giant Yorkshire pudding. Making me mouth water. I'll be honest I've only got a spoon but I'm only going to need a spoon I think cos it's all ever so tender. It's going to be hot in it. It's going to be hot but it's focused look what. Look at that man. Carrot. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Don't sleep on the carrot when it comes to stews. Turn it slash swede. Melting. Onion. Just melting. Let's have a bit of this meat. Get my grill out of red. It's so tender. Just pull it apart. Oh my word. Show a bit of pud. Pud. Crispy. Welcome to Yorkshire. I'm just cutting this meat with a spoon. That's what I'll cut that. Yorkshire pud with meat on. No. No. This is legit one of the best meals I've had outside. I say it a lot. I've had a lot of stews outside but there's something about this one. Whole cloves of garlic in there. It might be down to the can of northern munk. It's giving it that sort of sweetness. It's a 13% ale. Once all the alcohols burnt off is a pretty sweet affair. I need to just enjoy this bite fire. Do you want to see me? I can't be. Can't be janked. What more do you need? Absolute scenes. You just want to say thanks to everyone who's voted for me in the Great Outdoors magazine Readers Choice I'm a filmmaker of the year award. If you aren't already and you'd be so kind you can go and vote for me. I'll leave a link below. It's on there or vote for someone else if you think they deserve it. Just vote for someone. It seems like a pretty cool award because it's the people's choice. If I could bribe you with one of these that would be a no brainer wouldn't it? I'll be in. Right. I'm going to enjoy this and I'm probably delicious. And then just sitting ogle me fire. Turn this off because this light's pickling my bulb. I just want to be by the light of the fire enjoying this delightful meal. Yes. Ed shouldn't catch fire. It's on its way out. I haven't put any more wood on it. There's only a couple of bits that will just die down. And then when I turn you off it will be a nice little crackler lantern. I'll turn lantern deck off as well. But for now. So warm man. I've got my army softies on. I've got marino base layer. A t-shirt. My hoodie. A pair of wool socks. Belly full of stew. I'm going to fall asleep and just leave the camera running out now. Big time lapse of me just chatting my way through the night. I can't reach you. I can't be bothered. It's been a good one. I've not been doing that much chatting but it's been night. That stew was unreal. Unfathomably unreal. Right. I'm off. Unless something magic or tragic happens I shall see you on the morrow. There we are. You can't see very well. But hello. Put that on there. Morning. Good morning. Light's starting to come through. Can you see me? It's a bit dark in it. Get out of here. There's shelter. It's colder than I expected it to be. I didn't have my air bed. I just thought I'm going to go super simple. I'll shoot for Matt. Obviously you lose a lot of heat through the ground but I don't think that's what happened. It was sucking the heat out of me. Then the old digits started hurting when I'm out in cold. It was a cold one last night. The idea of that swimming is appealing now. Probably not going to go. I'm too cold. Too cold mate. There's no point in pushing it just for you. You've got to do it when you want to do it. Yeah. Pissing it down. It was absolutely pissing it down. It was lovely. Completely dry. There's nothing running into the tarp. All my tarp up floor is dry. There's so much air going in because of the... Look at the size of that. It's pretty big. So much air going in. There's no condensation. Wonderful shelter. Let's get this fire squared away. There's nothing heat. There's no heat there at all. That's just a soup bowl. I took enough earth off that I can just fill that back in. I could have had enough water as well. I brought some extra water out with me just because... I knew I was going to be in a pine forest and I just wanted to douse it. There's no water source around here. It's pretty much as simple as that. Quick and easy. No trace left. Also my filler's got... It's punctured so... I kept going down. I kept having to blow it up. I'll have to get the old puncture repair kit back on it. I've done a couple of repairs on it already but... Hopefully it's not the valve. If it's the valve then it's shot to shit in it but... Hopefully not. That's been Matt. It says there's no light on here, is there? What can I do? It's just an ultra light. It is billed as a... hiking sleep pad. I normally use it... Well I had a... an orange coloured one that I used all the time. It was all beaten up but... I lost it when me and Fern did the cumbi away. I just sort of... I finished the cumbi away and looked at my bag. I was like oh my orange things out there so... Felt quite bad about... I don't know where it is but it's gone. So I got this, the black one. And they're great just for putting under your... under your sleep mat or just carrying with it as a sit pad. But... as an actual lying on it pad. It's not a winter thing. I'll tell you that. I was relatively comfy because the... the pines are quite deep here. So the ground's comfortable. It's just the... It just sucks all the heat out of here, that's all. Which is something I know. I've been caught out by it before but... I've been caught out by it again. We live and we don't learn, you know? That's all it is. Most have had a good five or six hours' kip. That's not good but... I'll tell you what, I'll take it. I'll take it. For those wondering the top is a... Solognac. It's a Decathlon's own brand of outdoor wear. So just nice. Cheap and cheerful. It's sturdy. It's not the lightest ever. But... It seems sturdy. It seems sturdy. It's the first time I've had it out. I've had it for a while. It's the first time I've had it out. It's decent. I like it. These are see-through. New patches and stickers. So they're waterproof and see-through. As you can see. So you can just... pop it on your... on your mirror or on your car window or whatever. They look quite good. I've got one on my van. They're out now. If you're interested... Let's take this off. This never normally happens but... taking that home with me all... I've got to keep it in this bag and keep it upright because it's my stew. Couldn't... little lantern... Lantern and stew. I'm off to work. See ya. I measured that. I turned up to the yard like that with lantern and stew. Now lads. Morning. I turned up to you like... I just don't tilt at Tesco but you're like that in morning. I've got my slow cook stew and my lantern. I don't know what I'm on about. Stop this charade now. Cos I love that. There's enough in there to... reload it to have it with dinner. I don't know what I'm talking about. Come on. Leave no trace. Obviously as always. As you can see. Shall I show you? Do you need to see? Get in zoomed in look. There you are. Nothing. It's only eight o'clock. I've got a lot to do today. I don't think I'm going to go for a swim, you know? No, I'm not. No. Oh, will I? What under... Right. This fold... All depends on what I'm wearing on under here. Cos I've got no... No. I can't. I've got my thong on. I'm not going swimming. Sorry. I would normally. I'd go in the buff. But it's too much editing to... you know... to blur it. So... I'll catch you on the next one for a wild swim. Right, well... Thanks for joining me on this one. I've loved it. It's been just... It's been nice to keep it basic. And having the tarp open like that really does let you feel like you're in the woods. I know you're in the woods anyway. It gives you the views and it makes you feel like you're actually part of it. Not just enclosed in a tent or under a hammock or whatever. It's a really nice way of camping. And having the fire close to the tarp it was luxury. And at times, man, it was just pissing it down. I was dry and the fire was keeping me warm and lighting the inside of the tarp. It was chef's kiss. And speaking of chef's kiss, that's stew in the Yorkshire pudding was. How'd you do like... Like... Five. Chef's kiss. It was delicious. Absolute... Delicious. Right, I'm off to work. Take care of yourselves. Much love. I don't do the peat. I did that. Can I cut that? Peace, guys. Peace, guys. Take care of yourselves. See you later. But it is now, innit? I can't. I'm not doing all that, am I? I love you all. Bye.