Poor tree
Richard How many miles of roadside trees are vandalised like this each year, I wonder? Flail hedge-smashers must be one of the worse machines available to agriculture these days. Time there was a...
View ArticleWet day in Strid
RichardIt rained today in Strid Wood The river was as high as I’ve seen it since I started here a year ago. Richard D was with me and he took these photos. It was cold as well as wet and we only had...
View ArticleOh no! It snowed!
RichardSo what can you do in the woods when it’s all snowy? Well you can get all that wood shifted back to the bodgery that’s been lying around since last spring for a start. OK, no felling new wood...
View ArticleBoo! Autumn, rain and floods. Hurray …
Flying Shavings Rain Floods FIRE! Pretty wet day, continuous rain. The River Wharfe boiled and roared all day long. Few visitors and all wet and somewhat bedraggled. Spent the day turning poles for...
View ArticleA four-legged workshop
RichardToday I ran a workshop for five people making deer. I was ably assisted by my wife (chief photographer, waitress, tool mistress and adviser for the day). Two of the chaps on the course shared...
View ArticleVeteran oak and smoke
Richard I’ve just done the first charcoal burn of the year. Turned out not bad. Half the load was pre-sold and it was a good outturn 13 hefty 5 kg bags and 20 handy 2.5kg bags, or, technically, big...
View ArticleNot Spring yet
RichardAlthough March is now with us and it also stopped raining about two weeks ago, the temperature is still dropping to below freezing most nights. However, it’s sunny, and last week I enjoyed a...
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