The colours everywhere in the woodland are bright and clean today. The range of green tones are exceptional and this year the yellow archangel flowers add a speckled pattern across the woodland floor. The warmth of the air seems to encourage speedy growth and ferns are opening like slow motion explosions. I spent the morning […]

A bank holiday, we don’t meet up as volunteers but the draw of fading bluebells and the hot weather made me spend time alone in the wood. The value of maintaining and creating glades is now very apparent in the display of wild flowers. With the flowers come insects and all around feels alive. The […]

It has been unsettled weather, never sure if its going to be wet and cold or windy and sunny. It was still very muddy from the winter rain and we thought it wise to work together as a group in the quarry again. Eventually this place will be a wonderful source of hazel coppice but […]