This week I have mostly been...

...camping in my tiny tent beside a tarn in the Lake District,

learning bushcraft skills with Ben from Woodsmoke,

roasting cray fish and crab over a long fire.

followed by bacon and amazing camp breads the following morning,

pit roasting whole onions with seaweed-wrapped sea bass and mackerel,

all of which took place here.

Best coffee ever: cowboy style, alongside trout,

which we prepared on hazel sticks.

Foraging for pig nuts- delicious.

 

Bannock slice cooking on a mini easel.

 

Orrest head path,

leading to a view over Windermere.

 

I shall certainly be back with Woodsmoke soon, hopefully in June for a week of all round bush craft, then in Western Scotland in September for the week-long Coastal Forager. My heart and body feel very well after the silence of Gaia House and the natural world immersion in the Lake District. Words are harder and harder to find, and I am less inclined to try. See you at class, hoping all is well with all of you who may be reading this.