The name was chosen by the Monday tribe - It's just like a bath bomb, one said. Gifted by Graham Norgate on his last lunch in the woods, what was once a wedding venue, is a snug cave for us. A home for Dungeons and Dragons to be played, a place of art, it will… Continue reading Bath Bomb
Category: 2021
Midsummer’s Night’s dream to the woods
Midsummer's Nights Dream came to the woods last night, and what a magic dream it was. Leon the Prince of Warm Ups, Beth the nurturing and calm director, Titania in a wheel barrow, the amorous brilliantly acted lovers - with the backdrop of bird song throughout.
June – Birthdays, theatre, jackdaws and wrens nests
It's been busy in the woods after the spurt of coppicing, the lull, the expansion, and now the enjoyment. Mells birthday gathering of wild women, Halesworth Green celebrated Annette's election to Suffolk CC, Beth bought theatre, Midsummers Nights Dream, the Elders came every Monday and kept coming.
Daily Mail
I sit. I sit on my whicker chair looking out to the medly of sap green hornbeam, dogs mercury, awthorn, hazel as someone, a stranger, brushes my uncombed hair and plats it. It feels luxurious. Another paying attention to a part of my neglected body. 'Do you stay here?' the photographer asks. 'I mean really… Continue reading Daily Mail
Graham Norgate’s hands
Four seasons had passed to the day that Graham died. Those February March days last year before the pandemic changed all our lives. The virus, of course, was around, and Paul remembers at Grahams funeral it was the first time someone greeted him with the elbow greeting, but I do not recall a consciousness of… Continue reading Graham Norgate’s hands
Coppicing Feb 2021
Paul with his battery chain saw, Jim with the old petrol chain saw, Blake from forest school, tall Gemma all worked that first day, not raining, but in dull weather. Charlie arrived, new to our coppicing network, new to this wood and new to us all, he'd just bought a wood - to put bees… Continue reading Coppicing Feb 2021
Non Coppice day
We got that wrong - the forecast rain didn’t come the day was even , even warm. I’d cancelled the planned Coppice but forgotten to cancel Gemma, who I’d just met on email. She’d arrived on her bike. Your tall, I said. Yes 6 foot, she replied, and she stayed the day as it unfolded… Continue reading Non Coppice day
2020 – Lockdown year of the wood
Began well, with the annual two days coppicing with Paul and Jim on chainsaw, and a possy of volunteers, Phil after some stakes, Pauline and her friend, Mark, Malcolm and E, and their daughter. But most effective of all was Sam, who came on Workaway, and not only learnt the gentle art of coppicing, but… Continue reading 2020 – Lockdown year of the wood
Oak Notebook
Oak Notebook
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