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Most survival guides would leave you politely at your front step, on the presumption that if you’re home then you’re safe. But for us it’s indoors that it all begins. The reason’s simple: the urban bushman is driven to unearth new challenges and new thrills in the most familiar of places, and, for that, there’s no place like home.

With this fresh perspective and a few new tricks, your humble abode will be transformed into the Great Indoors; a place that screams adventure, with its wide expanse of carpet, and seductive line-up of gadgets (just look at all those remote controls!), not to mention the benefit of central heating and more tea than you could ever drink.

It falls naturally into two sections. To begin, this chapter concentrates on handy skills to turn everyday annoyances at home into a journey of discovery; junk calls, washing up and arguments over the telly are all problems we’re out to solve.

But there’s another important dimension to bushcraft with your slippers on, far beyond pure practicalities. Home is a place of respite from the need for results that muscles in on the rest of your life. So in the second part of this chapter you’ll find some bushcraft for the weekend, where we take things at a more leisurely pace. There are discoveries to share with the family and suggestions to ensure you’ll always have something to do when it’s raining.

But first, it’s purely practical. You need to put the kettle on, so let’s start in the kitchen.