Bush survival

11th May, 2011

Anyone taking a Sunday afternoon stroll around our bluebell carpeted spinney earlier this May would have had their reverie disturbed by two tribes of semi-feral children enjoying a day of bush survival.

Twenty five children in all from the top two years took part and they soon found themselves lighting fires by rubbing things together and cooking trout, corn, mushrooms and sweet potato over the resulting pyres. It’s amazing what children will eat if they have cooked it themselves. In addition to narrowly missing a dose of botulism, we also built weather proof shelters which were soon put to good use when the rain gods made their presence felt.