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Honesty boxes

High summer sees vegetable plots across the country bursting at the seams with fresh produce, most people grow enough to furnish their own tables from time to time, but there are a handful of green-fingered wizards that have taken their patches to the next level

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The Cow-barn diaries?

It seems conventional living isn’t really my cup of tea… I mean, wheres the fun? Since moving out of the tree house last October I have been plotting and scheming my next move

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The Treehouse Diaries: The book launch.

Considering I had a month to get a manuscript of 80000 words in, the book has come to finally come to fruition! What better time to release it than time for time – while I was building my arboreal dwelling this time last year.

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Sussex Graffiti

As a person with a degree in Archaeology, I obviously have a bit of a soft spot for old stuff. The fact I chose not to squander my time digging, sifting through bags of mud, counting the amount of different shell types from shell middens and touching myself during repeats of time team was something I realized after my first year of the course.

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Chasing Ghosts on the flats of Little Cayman

This is somewhat a delayed post considering it took place over the back end of 2008, but I came across the photos and felt it was a worthy adventure to write about: Caribbean Island, palm trees, tropical fish…in December. Why not?

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Wild Camping

When you think about it, man isn’t designed to live in a house, certainly not the houses we live in today, perfectly flat floors feel weird beneath the toes: our feet our able to bend and flex in conjunction with the terrain we walk upon, or is that just me?

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Micro Adventure: Slumming it Stone Age style – Sleeping in Caves

Some things never go out of fashion. Regardless of whether fire is still a necessity to modern man, it is still capable of bringing about a “stare-on” amongst the best of us.

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Micro Adventures: Pillboxing

Nick checks out the pillbox

I packed a small rucksack with headtorch, knife, flint and steel, culinary survival kit, pork (fresh from my friend Dan’s recently dispatched piggies) book, i-pod, camera, notepad, two ponchos, hatchet, water and the all important hip flask of whisky.

I clipped my sleeping bag and roll mat to the side of the bag and set off into the countryside at 4pm. I didn’t have a destination and only an hour of daylight left, unprepared perhaps, but as Mark Twain once said, you need two things in life: ignorance and confidence. And that seems to have worked for me in the past!

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Treehouse Diaries #8: A roof & four walls…almost

Nick shoes off his new roof / Photo by Nick Weston

As I mentioned last week, I had the good fortune to have a visit from the Hungry Cyclist (to see a full account of our escapades please check out his blog Photos from The Treehouse Diaries, and Leg of Lamb in a Fire Pit – The Treehouse Diaries here.

Tom was a massive help on the roofing front as well as force feeding me chicken hearts (actually no forcing was necessary- they are incredible and at £1.90/Kg, an absolute steal! Douse with a little Tabasco and lemon juice to serve).  He also made me a fine birch broom for sweeping out the Treehouse: it looked more Hogwarts than household and I have still to give it a test flight…who knows I might make seeker this year for hufflepuff, after all I’ve got the elder wand…in your face Potter.

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Treehouse Diaries #7: A throne fit for a king…& Jeff

Nick checks the throne for size / Photo by Nick Weston

The days seem weeks ago and the weeks seem months ago. Things are so hectic down here I don’t know where to begin!

I have just returned from a rather damp day of teaching foraging on the South Downs after 2 nights nestled in the newly roofed treehouse. The last few days have been grand, I have had the fine company of Tom Kevill-Davies a.k.a The Hungry Cyclist, the author of a book I am reading at the moment- and a terrific one at that, check out his blog for an update on his treehouse experience- the first of many!

With work progressing at an obscene pace, it is hard to know what to tell and when.

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