Woodland
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What a difference a month makes!
September…. End of September…. October…… Loving the Autumn colours!!!
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September in the woods!
James and I took another walk through the woods to see what we could do over the winter…. The dog came off the worst full of seeds and sticky buds!! …
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Shave horse!
Last weekend my Dad brought down a shave horse he built me! This weekend James and I spent some time making stakes to stabilise woodland steps!!! I think we ended up with about 32, at four per step….. Mmmmm….. 8 steps….. Few more to make me thinks!!!
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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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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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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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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…
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The woodland part one!
James and I decided that the other weekend was a good time to start surveying the woodland. So we togged up and off we went with paper, books and camera in hand!!! We went into the woodland from the furthest corner of big field…. And we worked our way down through the woodland…