Moots

The cheap availability of modern cord – all-but makes the skill of cord making obsolete – so what might we gain from learning this skill?  Let’s face some facts here – the likelihood of us ever being “suddenly stranded” on...

Like has been mentioned elsewhere, the likelihood of us ever needing to make a net for survival is very remote.  However, making a net is merely a progression of simple techniques to build competence and confidence in handling cord –...

Welcome to the second Winter Moot No more winter blues… The Winter Moot is coming!! The idea behind the Winter Moot is that we have a week in the woods with no pressures, it can be a time to relax,...

We all learn to make knots as toddlers, learning to tie shoe laces and later the dreaded School tie. I, like many others, took the skill a little further, learning knot-making when I joined The Scouting Movement – when we...