MungoSaysBah
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Mungo's Exciting Inaugural Occasional Twitter Digest
20 Apr 2011, 9:30 amI post a lot of links to outdoors, bushcraft, camping, and plain ol' interesting sites using my Twitter account. Given the volume of information I tap out on my keyboard, I thought it might be useful to compile my Tweets in a daily digest post. Some ... -
Redux: A Tutorial on How To Build a Coke Can Stove for Hiking, Bushcraft and Camping
15 Feb 2011, 12:27 pmI was just looking over my Coke can camping stove tutorial and thought it might be a good time to post it again - it is such an easy stove to make, and lots of fun. Okay, following up on a post about emergency preparedness, picture this: your power has ... -
Ray Mears Videos: Northern Wilderness - In Arctic Footsteps
12 Feb 2011, 1:46 pmI became a huge Ray Mears fan a few years ago - and have watched nearly all of his inspiring bushcraft and outdoor skills based programs. "In this episode of the series, Ray follows in the footsteps of an unsung British hero who helped put modern ... -
Mungo Is Still Mad About Wool Blankets
27 Jan 2011, 8:32 pmSo this is a rewrite of an older post. I'm going to start writing more again soon - but with the cold winter upon us here in Ontario, I wanted to share my Wool Blankets post again. Stay warm out there! I picked up some wool blankets recently at a ... -
A Snowy Saturday, Spent Indoors
16 Jan 2011, 12:59 amIt was a snowy Saturday here in Toronto, so we stayed indoors and played and read and napped and had a great time. James and his sticker book. James playing with stickers. Monty sniffing James. A view outside the back window, with the shed and ...
Wood Crafter's Blog
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Autumn Boletes and a Mouse Hole
9 Oct 2011, 4:37 pmMore photos from the weekend's excursion. A couple of boletes and a small hole that a mouse (didn't get enough of a look to see if it was a wood or house mouse) disappeared down. I also saw a squirrel but didn't get a photo of him as he ran off up a ... -
Woodland Amphibian
9 Oct 2011, 4:32 pmA long way from any ponds or lakes is the last place you'd expect to find a small green hopping thing. I'm guessing it was a juvenile toad. It was no more than an inch long and fantastically well camouflaged. I spent a few minutes following him and ... -
I, Caveman
6 Oct 2011, 9:52 pmI recently came across this programme (two 45 minute episodes), part of the Discovery channels "Curiosity" thread. Aside from the use of "caveman" in the title, a rather inexact and infantile term, and a rather awful quiz on the ... -
Cutting Edge Technology of the Stone Age
3 May 2011, 3:22 pmI've been reading a lot recently about archaeology. I've always thought that archaeology, along with anthropology, provides a lot of inspiration and ideas for bushcraft. Of course, for use in a flint and steel, the ability to get a sharp edge is pretty ... -
Every Spring
28 Mar 2011, 9:23 amIt's the same question every March, has spring come yet? What that boils down to is usually snow fall - going back over 4 years of living in this area of Poland I can see that we usually get one snow fall after the "official" start of spring ...
Tom Brown III Blog
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New website and New blog
17 Dec 2010, 2:05 amI have finally moved into a new website and I am more than happy with it. I have also moved my blog over to the new site.. Check it out at http://primitiveac.com/new-yearHelp me spread the word!T3 -
Teaching...
11 Jun 2010, 2:10 pmIt feels so good to be back teaching.After a long winter doing administrative work to get Primitive Arts Collective off the ground I am finally seeing the fruits of my labor.It started with an amazing memorial day weekend at the MAPS meet in Maryland. ... -
My past, present, and future plans....
18 May 2010, 12:44 pmI am sure by now many of you may have heard that I have left New Jersey and moved to Ohio. You may have also heard that I am also no longer working at The Tracker School. I have indeed moved to Cincinnati. The Midwest is beautiful, and this part of ... -
Giving thanks...
4 Mar 2010, 9:39 pmHI everyone! I know that it has been a while since I posted last. Been wrapped up in a lot of other things as of late and have not been able to keep on top of it. I am going to try from here on out to be more consistent with my posts. I am going to ... -
The Hazards of Expectations
29 Dec 2009, 11:09 pm“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations, neither are you here to live up to mine, I don’t owe no one no obligation, no one owe me none so everything is fine. I said I am that I am”-Peter ToshExpectations… They truly are a silent ...
Jon's Exmoor Bushcraft
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Long time no see!
15 Mar 2011, 3:39 pmWell I have been busy - what can I say!This is one of the things I have been busy with ... -
Short sighted owl?
20 Jun 2010, 8:44 pmLast night we saw a Tawny Owl on one of the power lines. It had been there quite a few minutes before it flew off. This in itself is not unusual I hear you say. And quite right too.What was unusual was this. It flew across the garden just as a bat ... -
Close encounters
20 Jun 2010, 8:14 pmOn Thursday and Friday just gone I was running a private course for a chap called Chris. He was keen on learning about tracking and was up for an intensive 2 days of solid learning and experiences.Well we certainly managed some fantastic wildlife ... -
Tip of the Day - 7
12 May 2010, 4:54 pmIf you want to collect rain water from the trunk of a tree or a stem of a plant, tie a cord or some cloth around it and use that as a drip line! Direct the drips into a receptacle and there you have it. Remember that you may still have to purify the ... -
Foxtastic
21 Apr 2010, 9:24 amI was out with the dog last night and the little darling decided to leg it and chase a herd of deer! I wasn't too impressed with this behaviour but it did give me the chance to see some other behaviour!Whilst waiting for the mutt I was watching a fox, ...
1999 Our first one
