Ellie
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Some more work in the woods
April meant more tidying up of the woodland and the rides, dealing with some fallen trees and starting to demarcate the rides and paths and accesses! Also we have not killed off the hedge by laying!!!!!!! Hurrah!!!! And we have some more wood for the wood piles!!!
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More Forest school practical!!!
Way back just after Easter….. I went on my forest school practical days in the Gower!!! We stayed the night in the lovely Cwm Ivy Bunkhouse and much fun was had with fires, tools, making and cooking and enjoying the gorgeous weather on the Gower! Here are a few photos!!
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Belated post of Easter shenanigans
A week sure went fast over Easter!!! Work in the woods!! In what will be the forest school area!!! Starting hazel hurdle fences…. Rendering the end of the house…. Concreting a hole in barn three’s floor…. Burning wood to make charcoal… Willows arrived and planted…. Rendering drying….…
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Building work from the beginning of April!
A quick photo update!!!!
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Starting work in the woods
James and I finished off the hedge laying and started a woodland entrance…. We seem to start work and more bits appear!!!! We have a downed ash to chop up and some blackthorns to chop up to make steps…. Oh and reams more of the damn black plastic and more tyres!!!! Oh and it looks…
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Ahhh nearly a month ago!!!
ok it’s been nearly a month since my last blog post here!!! Time certainly flies when you are having fun hopefully some of the next few blog posts will explain the busy and the lack of blog posts on a regular basis!!! Anyway….. After the last posting about the West Country game fair I had…
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The West Country Game fair
Last weekend we went down to the Bath and West Showground for the West Country game fair!! They had a small smallholders area too where we met some lovely and interesting people!! Who given the distance between the Bath and West and our holding were happy to share some of their hints tips and expertise!!…
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Back through the woods… The woodland part three
Once we had managed to make it down to the stream we had to climb all the way back up!!! However we found that the old coppice paths still were visible through the woodland and they, other than the occasional blockage allowed for us to clamber back up somewhat more easily!!! Well definitely more easily…
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Down to the stream…. The woodland part two
So…. We decided to clamber (ok for me slide down on my arse) down to the stream which is our boundary with the neighbours across the valley. Down and down we went….. Things got more mossy, damper, warmer, more ferns appeared on the ground…. Then the woodland opened up for the…