Cut the top sixty to one hundred centimetres of a spruce or fir tree, including enough length for a handle.
Mix the dry ingredients, flour, baking powder and salt, then add the water gradually to make a dry dough.
Before you check a forecast, read the signs around you.
A handrail is any long, continuous feature you can follow to stay on course without checking a compass all the time.
Pass the working end of the rope around the pole, crossing over the standing part.
Gather small, similar sized samples of dry wood from a range of species, such as oak, ash, birch, pine, hazel, elder and willow.
Gather your tinder, kindling and dry wood fuel in advance, then light a fire that you plan to let burn out completely within five minutes of becoming established.
Position your length of roundwood on a wood block so the cut will open up under gravity as you saw.
Position your wood block at least two outstretched arm lengths from anyone else.
In late summer and autumn, head out to a hedgerow, woodland edge or patch of scrub to see how many different berries you can find.