We ran a workshop along the lines of the ones done previously, this one was in the Junior school closest to where I live. Anyway this class had been to the woods before with KWT and were very talkative, they were actually really noisey. So noisey in fact I thought that after about 20 minutes they would have all shown me their drawings about 4 times and start throwing stuff about and tell me stories about firing their brothers air pistol or something similar.
Although noisey they continued to work and my prediction was utterly wrong. They carried on working very well, right to the end of school. I listened to a few stories while we worked, one or two might have been a little on the tall side, but they just worked in a noisey way!
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some of their work was amazing
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| again working best with good reference material provided bt KWT |
The other thing about this workshop was that I carried this socking great tree trunk up a number of flights of steps. This was a finished example from one of the previous classes workshops were I had carved their designs onto the tree trnck. I wanted to show then what the finshied thing would look like. They were excited then right at the start.
There will be a total of four of these mini totem poles made, and many more of their designs will be cut into the top of flat tree stumps cut by a chain saw when coppicing. I will start these in the woodland within a week or so and will post photos then.
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| the Blean Woods is home to the very rare Heath Fritillary Butterfly |
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| This is the finished pole for class 6 Szarbo in my garden |
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| deatil including 'Cosmo' further in the background |
And the final piece of news is that I updated the map of the trail features, as things have developed slightly and some things being eliminated while others added, or modified this made the old one rather out of date.
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| the updated map |
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