South Queensferry

Sun on the Forth Rail bridge 20.1.2014

Orocco pier - bar and grill menu

5 miles from campsite

Animals - Hare video

Hare 2.1.2014

Just hopping around on the pitch "Axis".

Fungus - Algae - Moss - Lichen

25.3.2014
yellow moss on stick

20.1.2014 Doing some repairs at the campsite steps

 and saw this yellow frilly edged fungus

Fungus - velvet shank

Spotted 2.1.2014

Velvet shank fungus on Pitch "Ox"

Lichen

Moss

Maintenance of woodland - Video of tree limb felling 2014

17.3.2014

Woodland spring cleaning - a leaning sycamore trunk

Felling for safety, more light and drying out pitch.

Video

 and of course a dead hedge windbreak using the brushwood

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10.12.2014

A bank of tangled elderberry scrub

and brush for dead hedging

a few buckets of debris

Woodland clearing up and pollarding

4.12.2013

Untangling and  tidying forlorn and dead elder scrub and

ivy clad and dangerously leaning 

sycamore clusters,  coppiced decades ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollarding

Video of lane clearing. November sun and snowdrops.

27.11.2013 early morning sun and snowdrops

 

video of  lane with leaf  and tree brush clearing

Campfire food and outdoor cooking

BBQ and campfire local food
including gluten free.
Video of cooking eggs and bacon in a paper bag
Bacon and egg in a paper bag on the campfire.

Mat Follas camp fire recipes

9.9.2013
Coppicing at "Burn"

A quick bacon sandwich and warmed apple pie on the campfire
whilst coppicing in the woodland.

Shack campfire

Warm bread and
corn cooked in it's foliage. Brush with chilli butter optional.
2011

Tree regeneration - Coppicing, saplings and seeds

Acorn germinating

If the acorns float in a bucket of water, 

they won't germinate, so only bother with those that sink.

Sessile oak and acorn

 Coppiced lime

Sapling

Our main tree generating is "Coppicing" but we have also, in the past, planted saplings.

So here's a third method, germinating a few acorns from a Sessile oak.

Coppicing

3.5.2014

A previously coppiced and regenerated sycamore tree

Coppicing
3 offshoots of sycamore

Uses:-
Continued life of a tree, so it doesn't die of old age but regenerates from the roots.
Dead hedging for camp pitch boundaries.
Wildlife refuge.
Wind breaks.
More privacy/boundaries in some cases.

Violins in the woodland - a regular camper