{"id":484,"date":"2012-05-08T12:50:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T12:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2012-05-08T13:10:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T13:10:15","slug":"spring-forager-course-in-the-lake-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Spring Forager Course in the Lake District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In occasional fits of craziness I scoot up to the Lakes and rip animals apart and eat them [ <a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2009\/09\/28\/twigs-in-my-hair\/\" title=\"Autumn 2009\" target=\"_blank\">Autumn 2009<\/a> ] and the past Bank Holiday Weekend was an occasional fit of craziness.  Last time I headed up there I took a pop up tent with me and I don&#8217;t think people took me seriously, so this time I took a hammock and tarp&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2012\/05\/08\/spring-forager-course-in-the-lake-district\/img_0769\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-485\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0769-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_0769\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0769-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0769.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2012\/05\/08\/spring-forager-course-in-the-lake-district\/img_0772\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-486\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0772-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_0772\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0772-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0772.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Breakfast on day 1 was Langoustines.  Basically you whip out your bush knife and sharpen a stick at both ends.  One end of the stick gets pushed through the Langoustines face and the other end gets shoved into the ground near a fire which generates the following results&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2012\/05\/08\/spring-forager-course-in-the-lake-district\/img_0782\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-487\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0782-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_0782\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0782-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0782.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2012\/05\/08\/spring-forager-course-in-the-lake-district\/img_0783\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-488\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0783-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_0783\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0783-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0783.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lunchtime of Day 1 was a choice of Lobster, Crab or Plaice.  The Plaice was already dead, not much fun in that, so I opted for a Lobster.  Drove my knife through its brain and lobbed it on the fire.  Tasted goooood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2012\/05\/08\/spring-forager-course-in-the-lake-district\/img_0793\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-489\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0793-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Still alive at this point\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0793-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0793.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2012\/05\/08\/spring-forager-course-in-the-lake-district\/img_0795\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-490\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0795-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"But not at this point\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0795-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0795.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2012\/05\/08\/spring-forager-course-in-the-lake-district\/img_0797\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-491\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0797-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Perfectly cooked and about to be eaten\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0797-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0797.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rest of Day 1 was just a blur of Lobster Bisque, Lobster and Crab Thermidor, Fish parcels cooked in an underground oven made by heating rocks in a fire and collapsing it into the ground.  Fun fun fun&#8230;.until I had to get into my freezing cold hammock again.  A foolish sense of manliness prevented me from putting up my popup tent and actually being warm, and you know, comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Day 2 started with Rare Breed Bacon and a baked in the fire Bannock.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-497\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2012\/05\/08\/spring-forager-course-in-the-lake-district\/img_0806\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-497\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0806-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_0806\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0806-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0806.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bacon sizzling by an open fire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-498\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2012\/05\/08\/spring-forager-course-in-the-lake-district\/img_0807\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-498\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0807-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_0807\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0807-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0807.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excellently cooked bannock..unless you look at the bottom of it...which is ummm caramelised??<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The afternoon was spent ponassing a fresh trout which basically involves taking the head, tail and spine out of the trout.  Splaying it between a split stick with some other sticks holding it open and &#8230;.yeah you guessed&#8230;sticking it next to a fire to cook for a while.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-499\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2012\/05\/08\/spring-forager-course-in-the-lake-district\/img_0808\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-499\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0808-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_0808\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0808-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0808.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One trout chopped apart really rather nicely<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-500\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2012\/05\/08\/spring-forager-course-in-the-lake-district\/img_0810\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-500\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0810-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_0810\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0810-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0810.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ready to get cooking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-501\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2012\/05\/08\/spring-forager-course-in-the-lake-district\/img_0812\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-501\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0812-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_0812\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0812-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0812.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cooking...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-502\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2012\/05\/08\/spring-forager-course-in-the-lake-district\/img_0813\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-502\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0813-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_0813\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0813-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0813.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cooked and ready to eat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of course, with all this food flying around one has to expel it somewhere.  The toilet for the trip is a &#8220;tent&#8221; with a hole in the ground inside.  It&#8217;s very liberating squatting over a hole in the ground to take a crap.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-503\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2012\/05\/08\/spring-forager-course-in-the-lake-district\/img_0817\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-503\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0817-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_0817\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0817-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0817.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The tent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_504\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-504\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2012\/05\/08\/spring-forager-course-in-the-lake-district\/img_0818\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-504\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0818-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_0818\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0818-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0818.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">and the hole in the ground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In occasional fits of craziness I scoot up to the Lakes and rip animals apart and eat them [ Autumn 2009 ] and the past Bank Holiday Weekend was an occasional fit of craziness. Last time I headed up there I took a pop up tent with me and I don&#8217;t think people took me &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?p=484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spring Forager Course in the Lake District&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}