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Monday, 21 July 2014

Ashden woodland camping trip 2014

This weekend I had friends from work come to camp in the woods, as happened about a year ago too. Fortunately the freak storm from the previous night had passed away, and we had mostly good weather!

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As you can see, I'd put a tarpaulin up just in case of rain, and it did get used briefly in the evening! I had a second one set up on our old shelter frame as well:
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There was the obligatory walk around the woods, which the sun came out for:
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During the walk we saw some windblow from the previous night's storm:
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Back at the camp a couple had a go at chainsawing some logs, then there was the most impressive food preparation I've seen in the wood in a long time, perhaps ever!
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We had a bit of a tent village going on, which was good as there were ten of us sleeping over!
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The kids played on the rope swing until it went dark, then after they went to bed the rest of us went on the swing too - it's much more fun in the pitch black, and after a glass of wine! :-)

We finished up the next day with some target practice with the air rifle and a good breakfast cooked on the fire:
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Looking forward to next time!

Mike

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Friday, 21 June 2013

Ashden Awards 2013!

Just come to the end of another great Ashden Awards week! If you only watch one of our winners' films from this year, make sure it's this one, from Hollybush Primary school in Derry:



There's loads more videos on the Ashden YouTube channel, and you can download copies of the films, as as well as case studies and photos, from the Ashden website.

Mike

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