There is no such thing as silence in a wood, though there is a certain quality of quietness . It’s a muffled eerie quite of boughs creaking and melting snow dripping and branches cracking. It’s like listening to nature holding it’s breath and waiting for something to happen. You can see all the footprints leftContinue reading “heydon-hill-in-the-snow-jan-131.jpg”
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New Years Eve
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 wasContinue reading “New Years Eve”
Rain,rain and more rain. Tractor continually getting stuck in the quagmire of the forest floor,and extraction at a standstill (again). Very frustrating times for the forester this autumn, but has given us plenty of time to dream up even more exciting projects for next spring. Been clearing the felled larch (ahhh poor larch)and getting theContinue reading
Welcome to heydon Hill West Wood
Decided that it was time to start a blog, though I can’t promise that I will be posting regularly. It really should be Paul writing these posts,as he spends so much more time up there than I do nowadays. Paul has been working really hard, chopping trees, to sell the wood,to drill the bore hole,Continue reading “Welcome to heydon Hill West Wood”
decided it was time to share our beautiful wood with more people.
The Avenue

Spring
The perfect join

Barn building

Waiting for the cladding