 a few years ago that I said this stick a pin in that one remember it in case a when zombie apocalypse comes about or social and economic collapse that's where you'll find me just tucked in there eight pack of northern monk sorted well we've sort of had a semi sort of apocalyptic time of it and we saw I thought why not come back and spend a winter night under this thing here but first as always we check for adders which is the the only venomous snake in the UK but you can give you a proper little proper dab you inch in if you if you're not careful because it's due to get down to into the minuses tonight so it's gonna be a nippy one and time is against me because it is winter so day like I was a few and far between so I best get some work done I'm just looking for snakes and you know rats and stuff I mean there's some it has been chilling out in here not in here now and they won't come when I'm in there and if they do catch and cook them or not all these leaves can go because they will dry out and catch so just move them back from fire with all the earth and that can go back over it once we've tidied it in morning perfect some strips of silver birch and it is worth pointing out as well that this is dead it's just an odd dead stump please oh I see it so often don't take the back from a living tree if you can help it mate especially not all the way around because it'll kill it I do see that quite a bit it's just a bit upsetting I'm sure people don't mean to do it and hurt the tree but like on here this is a live tree and all these little curly bits that are just hanging off they're fine that's good tinder you can have that but just don't just don't dig into it and grab back off because it's not good for a tree now you know good tinder good tinder date come on collect some bracken again got to wear gloves for this because it'll slice your hands up it's a bit of dead bracken this is basically my tinder my kindling ex-therm large the rab ascent 900 sleeping bag trecology inflatable pillow and the alkyt hunker XL bivy bag to go over top and what I'll do is I'll cinch it down pretty tight so that nothing can get in here while I'm because it's gonna be a while till I get in there I don't want any surprises I'll put that over my head and I put a head net over me because no one needs things crawling on face to the people undesirable and that's it home for tonight everything covered as well and it's not forecast to rain I might get a few drips off therapy if it does but I can always turn it round and put my head down at the thinner end of the wedge well that looks like a good home for me before I go to bed I'll just chuck that underneath the thermo rest for a little bit more insulation and mainly just to protect it from anything sharp I just found this on an ash tree and it's we all know well if you don't know it's a cramp ball king Alfred's cake and it's a fungus believe it or not and that isn't prepped that's just how it is and they take a spark wonderfully well this one is a little bit on the damp side but we'll see what we can do I've got other means of lighting the fire but it would be nice to try and get this going maybe even try with a flint and steel which is very ambitious with it being a little bit down we'll give it a go and get it in this nest that is a little bit damp as well that's first option option B is just to use the silver birch option C is just a can of links and a big light and a zippo so I'll do that now it's a bit too wet in it Makayla Bracken so right let's see if we can get this fire going axe of choice little hand hatchet Grants for Brooks and I didn't want to bring a big axe there's no need I'm not going to be processing any big bits of wood but it's nice to have it as a tool for around camp that's just like electricians tape that is bicycle inner tube which goes some way to protecting it when you're striking but it's mainly just you can use it to start fires and stuff like that and it looks pretty good I think yeah I've got much flint left over Freddie Frederick von flint off right we'll see if we can and we just strike down I've got miss striker these are great I'll leave a link below for these actually because they're great and hold it on top like that because often times I'll fly upwards there we go right we're in we're in can you see once it's a lovely smell as well I think once it's lit it'll steal it for quite some time give us our best chance of survival put gloves on just in case it smishes to fingers and then we put it in our little nest and we'll see what we can do okay in there you should be all right I feel good about this now once we get flames I'll chuck it down there and we'll go on with the silver birch and then on with a few of the little sticks couple more maybe one more hey now we got a fire going so we're gonna start getting me start getting my stew together let's see what we've got shall we put my shrooms the spider car so we want these pretty I want everything pretty chunky because we're gonna cook it for a while do this a bit chunkier but turn it may be a bit of turn it from leftovers snip young parsnip young snip not peeling it come on chunky snips a bit more carrot a bit of mud on it mate that's what you want a bit more cazza garlic bulb you can do what you want here but I just cut the odd root bit off end take out that middle bit full garlic bulb mate give it a bit of get it a bit tenderized full garlic goes in skins on skins on for slow cooking it's fine these are some shallots I grew these myself these are from my garden they've just they've been in pantry for quite some time but drying out but stood still be okay let's open one up and have a little peek I grew loads that could do pick I'm gonna pickle them and do pickled shallots and these are sort of like the perfect size that's good looks good there you go and then it's gonna be painstaking but I'm gonna peel all these I got a sprig of rosemary from the garden and put all that in there laced it with rosemary and a sprig as well a fresh thyme it's alright for some of its stalks getting there not bothered you can always pick them out if they get too if they're too woody it's a rustic stew I've got some lamb organic lamb and we want that in big old chunks now yeah if I was at home I would fry that off with some seasoned flour but I'm not and I can't be bothered to just muck about so tried and tested mate you can just throw it in it doesn't matter when you're doing these sort of stews because the amount of time we're gonna be cooking it for three or four hours everything just becomes warm it's delicious so that goes in there wipe on moss little spaggy chopped tomatoes and some I've decanted it into this bottle but it is a nice red wine left over from the festive period but I'm not slurping for a bit so in here it goes special water to top got sea salt pepper and cumin seeds because lamb and cumin yes so plenty of seasoning in there spoon look me his spoon shout out joy deep it smells good already that's gonna be special a potato wrapped it in tin foil we'll chuck that on the side as well it smells delicious liquor on fresh garlic shallots lamb let's be quick because you tonight marrying it when it's dark can you see it or not that is a delightful stew and it smells so good the lamb falling apart my wonderful world that's one of the best yet we got all sorts in here mate carrot with some time on it all organic sweet he was left over from Christmas but Christmas did a bit mushroom all on this baked 80 and one of me shallots well grown it's absolutely divine look at it breaks apart and just melts oh my word I've cooked a few stews in my time but this is up there the only thing I bought specifically for it was the lamb cuz I don't really have meat at home so this is just all stuff from my from kitchen I'm not drinking or anything tonight I'm just having a chilled one and just keeping under me rock giving under rock finish this stew off I'm gonna load the fire up because it's a the temperatures have dropped over the last few days so it's really it's quite biting so I'm gonna start the fire up now that I've cooked me food I'll just sit by that all night yeah I'll turn this light off anyway it's very it's very in my face I'm trying to be a bit stealthy and and it's killing me night vision I'll bring you some shots of the stars it's it's looking pretty clear but for now I'm just gonna enjoy me stew I mean we I mean what am I in under I'm under it right that's rock look let's get a side profile on my bonks that's how fat rock is away from my bonks you see so I'm all right it's less claustrophobic than other end anyway it's nice look as well look in that nice a I've just got the fire crackling away behind me I've stoked up a little bit so that I've got some nice ambience as I drift off I see it make no else to report there's no snakes around temperatures dropped it's pretty cold so if it rains it would be I mean it's clear skies the skies are beautiful the skies are stunning mate so unless some great or gash happens I'll see you on the morrow cut to a time-lapse keep shining on you're at my shoulder in my side be here when in the cold night form that's my view now oh my god it's cold like whoa it's some weird noises in there you'll hear that with some weird noises but I slept well I was warming up math math the old boat race was cold and occasionally I'd put my hand out at sleeping bag in that and it would be like ow got down to minuses it's half past seven so I best get up square me fire away and get off because I've got work it's it's a work day so there's no swimming or doing out like that or coffees or anything I don't like the fire again I have to wait for it to go out so let's go get up from under our rock emerge from under our rock like a prehistoric man or a slug so if you want me I won't even that cold well I wasn't called at all just my face was cold and then when I put my digits outside at sleeping bag they got a little bit cold but I just went cocooned up and so because it didn't rain it won't uncomfortable there's no difference from that to that and then sleeping in a tent or a hammock for me so he's comfy and it feels snug with the stone when you're like ensconced in this stone I guess there's something primal about it and it's a it feels very natural to me anyway I know a lot of people look at him but like what the what are you doing keeping under a rock I could like an act like an area wig or whatever the column and but for me it's I feel great now it's like a price primal and it's just raw and it's just natural for me and after Christmas and New Year that's the perfect antidote for Christmas and New Year for me so enjoyed it I just want to say thanks to everyone for interacting or just for watching throughout 2021 it's been a bit of it it was a roller coaster of a year some highs some lows but it was fun and I wish you all the best for 2022 Namaste out of trouble I know what you're like that's when it's when it's your you mean to go on in it walking back to the camera love you bye be you in the cold night for