For many spindle was a novel revelation, first time seen here in the wood – we were spindle virgins.
Useful for making charcoal
Latin Euonymus europaeus –
Lots of engineered garden varieties one with crimson leaves
Nature walks as a child, loved the shocking pink
Never heard of it until last week.
Used to make toothpicks and clothes pegs
First time I heard of it was last week. Thought of spindles on stairs
Traditionally seed was baked and ground up to treat head-lice or a cow with mange!
Kally showed us a drop spindle made of spindle.
Egyptians thought it lucky to have spindle on their boats
Discovered it when came to the woods last year.
It is the remaining tree of Britains temperate rain forest.
Colour of Barbie
Spinning, turning, all words connected with Spindle
The Spindle Flower Fairy my favorite.
Planted 2-3 spindles for the hedge on the new land
Leaf like that of the olive
Used to make gunpowder.
When my son, aged 2, was fed the seed by my daughter, he was taken to Farnham hospital!
Spindle Ermine catapillar.
After talking spindle, Rachel gave us a demonstration of fashionable layered clothing, stripping down to leggins and vest.
Nicky warmed us up with tapping.
Kally amazed us with spinning yarn using a potato and a chopstick to create a drop spindle. We hand carded some of the fleece we had naturally dyed into rolags, had a go spinning our rolags using a twig spinner and a Mayan style paddle spindle made from hazel rod. Then we met niddy noddy who we wound yarn around.
Rachel worked with the boys to see what spindle was like to strip with a draw knife.
Nicky made charcoal out of spindle branches
What rocked us, and what sticked out, and what leaf letting go?
Learning about spindle
Making charcoal.
Spinning with Kali
Companionship
First time carded
First time spindle
Mushroom soup
Rachel’s fashion show
Diana’s cheese scones
Its taken 40 eyars to know the name of the berry that nearly poisioned my son.
Mostly we wanted to let go of our aches and pains, our bad backs, our cold feat!
Kinda Elders in the woods 