Logs, Logs Glorious Logs (and Mud)

Designed with nature in mind

Beautiful detailing, well done KEN!!!!

Look at that curve!!

Half made logstack

Now I know I am a wilderness bore but the logstacks are going to look so amazing once completed. The first one is in and thanks to Matthew Morey and his team at Aerzen who put together the frames for the stacks to sit in and also to our lovely regular landscape artist, Ken Daly. Andy Goldsworthy has nothing on him!! Well... apart from the millions of pounds.

Ken has worked so hard and did an extra two days over his allotted time to get the first stack finished. I cannot thanks him enough for bringing my plans to life so successfully.

He will be doing a demonstration session on the 1st of December when we have our big tree planting day in the wilderness, so if you want to have a go, please come along.

As well as the logstacks coming along, we had another brush with fame when the Richmond and Twickenham Times came in again to see the kids planting bluebells and pond dipping, even though there was nothing in the pond to dip at the moment (minor details!).

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Community Bluebell Planting and yes it was the whole community!!!

BCTV Volunteers

HSBC Volunteers

Keep Digging Reverend!!

First injury of the Day, Katie with a nettle sting

There are so many people in our school that have the ability and the drive to make things happen. Peter Greenwood is one of them. He is a dad who happens to work at HSBC and because of him the richmond HSBC managers came on a team building day (so much better than the SPA day they had intended to go on!) in the wilderness to help us to prepare the area for planting of bluebells (English Bluebells, Hyacinthoidies non-scripta of course).

BUT not only did we have 11 of the best of the HSBC (Peter, Mick, Ali, Mark, Catherine, Andy, Harpreet, Katie, Liz, Joy and Simon) , but we also had another 14 of the BCTV (British Conservation Trust Volunteers: Dan, Laura, Steve, Simon, Anna, Iain, Heather, John, Kevin, Aneel, Nick, Dans, Richard and Keith.) who not only volunteered but we had 3 of them leading the exercise with myself and also making available all their tools.

We also had The Rev Graham and Jerry and their friend Jane and the many parents that turned up including, Lucy (Great with a wheelbarrow), Alison, Lindsay, Suzy, Liska (hope I have spelt it correctly), Liz, Anne and Kate, as well as all my family including children, husband and not least my mum.

It was a truly community effort and we had the most beautiful November day that actually felt like Spring.

We managed to prepare the ground and plant 1500 bulbs.

Today the job was finished off by the pupils of the school who all came in class by class and managed to plant the rest of the 3000 bulbs we had for our Bluebell carpet.

The Richmond and Twickenham Times came in to document this and to make sure that the rest of the community also know what we are doing and trying to achieve.

Phase 2.1 is complete! Apart from the few bulbs that were left over for the children who were ill today and called in to the school in tears as they were missing their chance to plant bulbs and be part of the wilderness. What a lovely thing that they care so much!

Tree planting day will be Wed Dec 1st!! Keep the day free, Please!

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