Despite the rain and wind we had a little party in the barn at lunchtime on 31st December to welcome in the the New Year with friends and neighbours. We kept cosy and dry with an oil drum brazier in the barn, which also kept the soup and mulled wine warm, and warming.

It was a good way to say goodbye to the old year, with children and dogs running around and throwing and chasing sticks for each other. Not sure which way round this was happening  most of the time..

We also had some beautiful live music courtesy of Alfie and Ben, who just happened to bring along their violin and double bass, as you do to a wood, in the rain.Fantastic playing and singing.

It’s really important to us that we can share the wood with other people and use it as  space to do things in with them,alongside the  more traditional activities one associates with woodland.i.e getting tractors stuck in mud, chopping and thinning trees, cutting fire wood,making fires, building barns and having carved four poster beds hidden in the middle of the trees.

Thank you every one for coming and making it a special last day of 2012