Lapland autumn 2009 – 24th September part 2

We headed off away from the bear den and after walking a while Teres spotted a beer bottle pushed under a fallen tree.  Amazingly she could remember having sat there with her friend when she was 15, drinking the bottle of beer and after they had finished she pushes the bottle under the tree to [...]

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Lapland autumn 2009 – Surströmming

During my last three visits to Lapland my friends have spoken of “Surströmming”, a delicacy and favoured food of the people of the north.  It is in fact fermented herring which has been caught in the Baltic Sea.  The herring is fermented in barrels for two months with just enough salt added to prevent the [...]

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Lapland autumn 2009 – 18th September

There are some beautiful scenes across the lake on cold, misty autumn mornings.

To provide more of a feel for the this scene I took a small piece of video

more about “Pictures by sufguy1 – Photobucket“, posted with vodpod
After breakfast I took Teres and Emma for a row around the lake

and later we walked through the [...]

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Lapland autumn 2009 – 12th September

I began the day cooking breakfast and making a batch of pinn bröd dough

Teres was keen to help me ;>)

I cooked the breads on the top of my woodburning stove

My neighbours were at their cabin for the day and there grandson was collecting blue berries and threading them onto a grass stem.  Apparently many children [...]

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Lapland autumn 2009 – 11th September

I begin the day carving a plate from a piece of Birch and then I took my boat out and rowed around the lake to take some pictures.

We collected some blue berries (although known in Lapland as Blue Berry they are in fact Bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus) and with the addition of some apple moose I [...]

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Lapland autumn 2009 – 10th September

I arrived at Gallivare airport at 21:20 on 8th September and my girlfriend Teres was there to meet me.  I spent the following day with her and her family and we went shopping for food.  We visited the butchers in Gallivare

to purchase  meat products including this sausage (korv in Swedish)

On 10th we drove to my [...]

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Vegetable plot

In March this year I decided to set aside a small area of my garden as a vegetable plot.  I cleared an area 2.8m x 1.3m back to bear earth and created a raised border around it

I have a heavy clay soil in my garden so I dug the area over and mixed sand, leaf [...]

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Birding and bushcraft

Last Friday I headed off to the British Birdwatching Fair which is a three day event held annually at Rutland Water Nature Reserve.

I was there to make contact with nature tourism companies who are, or who are considering running tours in Northern Sweden.
After a day at the bird fair I travelled down to Danemead Scout [...]

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Fruit leather

I found a large number of Crab Apples on the ground and decided to try and make use of them.

I placed them in boiling water for five minutes and then pushed them through a fine sieve to remove the peel and pips.  Then I did the same with some Blackberries but boiled them for a [...]

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Cooking Roe Deer in the ground – Part 2

Nettles were added until a thick layer covered the embers

Then the meat was placed on to the nettles

Another thick layer of nettles was placed on the meat and then a fire built on top

After four and a half hours the fire had burnt down to embers and ash

and so I decided to scrape away the [...]

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