Woodlore Aspirant Instructor and Quartermaster David Southey recently enjoyed some well-earned downtime following his trip to Finland, assisting Ray on the Woodlore Winter Bushcraft in the Northen Forest Expedition and before the busy course season gets underway in April. [caption id="attachment_8233" align="alignnone" width="625"] Winter Bushcraft in the Northern Forest[/caption] As an outdoors person David naturally enjoys spending his spare time outdoors and his recent time-off was no exception, taking a walk in his local woodland looking for the signs of spring. During his walk, David spotted a Badger latrine, he had a brew fire and then set about making some coat hooks for his home. [caption id="attachment_8234" align="alignnone" width="620"] Woodland[/caption] [caption id="attachment_8237" align="alignnone" width="551"] Spring is kicking into gear[/caption] David sourced some Hornbeam from his local coppice to start his simple project. He stripped off the bark and shaped to allow a single screw to secure his new hooks to the wall. [caption id="attachment_8238" align="alignnone" width="620"] Cutting Hornbeam[/caption] [caption id="attachment_8235" align="alignnone" width="620"] Coat hooks[/caption] A simple project which brings the outside inside.