(Della): “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”.. Plenty still on the tree, but if I get this lot preserved in jars and the drier over the next few days, we will be very well set-up for apple this year, as these will be in addition to some bottled Gravensteins from early in the season. That […]
You have probably seen my posts about Westies Hut and about that section of the South Coast Track. We have stayed in the remarkable hut in a sea cave at Price’s harbour – and hope to do so again, next time for a slightly longer period, despite the sandflies. I doubt we will be staying
(Della): First task for today: Cooking up the green tomato pickle. Miserable weather outside keeping me out of the garden is the perfect backdrop! The finished product. Yum.
Lots of people live in flats and don’t have anywhere to store a normal kayak. It may be they don’t have a car with roof racks either but they still want to go canoeing on a beautiful silvery river on a hot summer’s day – as who does not? The folk at Tucktek have come
A tent for two that is also a (two-person) hammock tarp which weighs 150 grams in cuben. How good is that? During this coronavirus lock down we are very busy here on the farm building several kilometres of new vermin-proof fences just for example. I also need to spend hours each day on share market
If you have sewn a couple of tents or similar projects you will no doubt have encountered this well-nigh compulsory seam. It is awkward to do. The cutting is tedious, the folding over is really difficult when you have ‘hands like feet and feet like No 10 shovels’ as I do, and the results are
I needed to make a stuff sack to finish off my Hammock Tent anyway so I thought I would post some instructions and photos showing how I do it. This may help you get into sewing your own gear – as I do. As you can see the completed tent with floor, all guys, line
(Della): Social distancing is pretty easy where we live: Our afternoon walk.
I have completed sewing a silnylon version of my 10 x 10 tent (actually 3 x 3 metres) out of some 1.25 0oz/yd2 (43 gsm) silnylon I sourced from China for US$2.50/metre. The key to understanding how it works is where to put the tie-outs. The photos below show it erected as a tent (for
New Zealand’s Dusky Track a wonderful challenging 8+day trek in Fiordland. My post from this day in 2014: ‘Expect a break from me: tomorrow I am off for ten days’ hiking in Fiordland. In the unlikely event that I capture a photo of a live moose, I will come back $100,000 richer as there is
