Thank you all for coming to Silver Wood!

Lots of people came, some from quite a long way away! It was lovely to see you all, we had a great time, and hope you did too. We took some photos.....

Party on!

The weather looks good and the Silver Wood is waiting for you!

Follow the arrows

And we will see you at the end of the path !

Things to bring; well, nothing essential really. But its a wood (brambles, mud etc), so old clothes obviously. There are some benches (aka bits of wood) to sit on but feel free to bring camping chairs if you want. We seriously need to off-load our home made cider and there will be a continuous kettle boil for tea but if you want to bring other drink then please do. I have been letting my inner GBBO free so we have some cake and Heather is making a tray of her lovely cheese scones so we are well provided with nice things. But we can light a fire if you want to BBQ (self-burn only) and bring more cake is a pretty good rule for life. Oh, and don't forget to print out the map......

See you soon!

Getting ready for winter

So that's the firewood store sorted!

Looking forward to seeing you!

Heather and I are looking forward to an afternoon in the woods with friends, neighbours and colleagues. Hope it stays dry and if it does, that you can find us! Instructions on driving and suggestions about where to park are here and if you want to try public transport, see here

But when you have found Old Park Wood, you need to find our little patch, Silver Wood, and then the clearing where we will be. There are three entrances to the wood and I suggest you use either the gate and main ride off Roundwood lane or the footpath entrance by Colliers Green school. Both are marked on the Google map here. Best not to use the entrance on the main A262 as there is no useful place to leave your car there. 

When you have parked near the yellow lines and have found the entrance then follow the blue path in the satellite image below, Silver Wood is outlined in red and the clearing is the yellow patch. Past experience tells me that it is probably best to print this out and bring it with you 😅

If you do get lost then fear not - there are no bears!

And we do have mobile phones although connections are not brilliant. Mine is 07766 252347....  Good luck!

Its not all woods, woods, woods...

..... also fishes and birds

Sunday June 10th - summer is here

It was beautiful in the woods today. The bluebells are now in seed and doing really well in the rides I cutback last winter

Other flowers are now out including common spotted orchid and birds-foot trefoil (AKA eggs and bacon plant),

Foxglove,

and honeysuckle.

Preparing for a charcoal burn next weekend I noticed that something had been burrowing underneath the oil drums. Whatever it was, it had clearly made itself a nice nest and food cache

Making legs for a chair

Not the best movie you will ever have seen but I had fun doing this. Three steps to bodging a chair leg - first axing out the billet from the log, second sitting on the shaving horse and using a draw knife to get the billet approximately round and third using the pole lathe to get it to final shape. Then its just a matter of doing the same for all legs, spokes, rungs and inserting them into a chair seat - easy!