A Walk Around Britain

This is where Ginger shows us how to make a three-legged stool, with all speed and ease. With the then weather warming, this stool kept us out the mud, and prompted a spate of replicas to be knocked out.

Thank-you Ginger.

Tools required, are:

And that’s it.

A Video Series on How to make a Wooden Spoon, really well,

with Barney Spoon.

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This video shows how to split a hazel rod.

Hopper had already taught us the rudimentary techniques of hurdle-making (CLICK HERE), and in this video he shows us how to split hazel rods.

As well as the practical techniques of splitting, Hopper also shows how to measure the height of a tree, with a stick. Interested?

There’s also an interesting discussion, on recycling, universities, and Martians. And there is a very blunt billhook, the inadequacy of which led Hopper to loan us a nice sharp replacement.

The video might take a short while to buffer, but please be patient. Hopper is worth the wait…

This is a first attempt at video editing by Will, who is neither skilled nor trained in the art.

It is a series of clips from our first days in the woods last November, when we trolleyed in all the canvas, hand-tools and books that we felt necessary.

The track soon bogged up thickly. And once we’d done the many runs each, to bring in all the bits, we found a shortcut through a sheep field that would have saved us hours.

The film also shows the first part of building the A-frame, which was our immediate shelter while the main house went up.

And the fiddle tune was recorded by a doctor in a stone circle in Cornwall, on an earlier walk. It is a Breton tune, called (trans.) “the jumping chicken”.

This fantastic little animation to the song “Staines Morris”, was made by our friend Rufus Herbert.

A short video of Ed, Will and Ginger singing in car park of the Royal William public house, on the outskirts of Stroud. July 2009.

We are glad to have met and sung with the Scout movement. They are curious souls, eager to learn and improve their interactions with nature.

The songs they sing are, however, strange and slightly fearsome, but so it goes.

They told us stories of how their boyfriends had dumped them for taller blondes…and these were girls of 9 years old. It was an education to learn where youngsters are these days, and truth be told, they are just where we are.

Big up the youth.

We are here singing at the Faversham Hop Festival, at a gig in the Gulbenkian, Canterbury, supporting Chris Wood, and at a Christmas party.

These songs are being sung in times between walking, in our home territories.

This is a shorter edit of the documentary filmed by Molly King while we were in Cornwall.

The longer version of this film won an RTS Award and was shown on BBC South. To view the 15 minute version : Part 1 & Part 2