Noisy in a Quiet Place.

I took a whole car full of stuff down down to the Hospital, I had sticks, wood, screws, drills, saws, work benches, extension cables, protective sheeting, brooms and dust pans. In fact I had so much stuff I took my wheel barrow (with statutory flat tyre) to ferry everything from car the working space.



our bird boxes were fab.



Lot's of drilling and noise, they must notice the difference when we show up. It's noisy in a very quite place.



Staff from Kent Wildlife Trust making a noise and a mess.

  I was talking about Yugoslavia, next thing I know the staff at KWT are making more noise than the rest of us put together. We all drew, owls, or other birds, trees, flowers, suns or mushrooms, something on these bird boxes so a lot of routing out of designs and drilling done in this session. In total we made four bird boxes with one gone for xmas present somewhere. So maybe any future nesting birds in there wont be in the grounds of St. Martins!

We also carried on with our terraced housing insect home.

This has been an ongoing construction for a couple of weeks now, with more still to do. I am hoping the next session will finish it. There is a lot of sawing to cut the canes and sticks to 8 inches long to fit the living rooms. So a range of activities this week with one more bird box to make and designs for two, plus the insect home, there's still enough for one more session. Encouraging conversations about carrying on with the work here. Even suggestions about a trip to the woods, not sure about the logistics, paperwork and even van hire on that suggestion. The aim here would be to collect stuff from the woods, bring it back to make things for the hospital grounds. Might be ambitious that, but personally I feel it as an aspiration for this programme.



The insect homes are shaping up, one final session should see it through.

I must remember to bring some mud next week to put in the ends where the windows are. Some insects will choose to live in the soil while most in the cavities between the sticks. I am looking forward to placing these in the grounds of St. Martins. 

I must thank the volunteers who cleared up afterwards, we did make a mess and I was talking not tidying so many thanks for that...... much appreciated.