We could not have wished for a more glorious spring day. After lunch of the last of last years potatoes from our community alotment (before we planted some more), we gathered in our circle and said what we noticed had changed:
- Running water in new kitchen
- The ritz
- The kitchen roof looks ever so much better
- Really hot, too hot for my boots
- Leaves are bursting every day, The trees are coming on and its dry
- You’ve cleared a lot over there, Opened up, can see blue sky
- The venue…. The Catering Venue! Next is a hot tub! Wonderful, its as though the woods spring cleaners have been in,
- The most impressive is the larder
- The winds dropped and the suns come in
- Less mud, more heat
- Different experience to yesterdays tribe of children, more mature faces, both ends of the stick
- Hearing the distant woodpecker, the singing robin and the openness of the woods
- The two black sheds, I’m not sure if I’ve seen them before
- How light and bright it is
- Its opened up, somethings missing
- Its been coppiced
- That board and the new seating arrangement in the carpark, the kitchen
- THE GREEN RITZ
- Lovely to be back, to see everybody is a good feeling
- Singing the song ‘trees grow tall in the heart of the forest’ and doing it in rounds was spontaneous and
- lovely thankyou
- Weather good, people ok, some of them anyway
- My day was eggsalent
- It was eggciting getting lost in the woods
- Relaxing, walking in the sunshine and don’t it feel GOOD
- Holding Bonnie in our hearts
Some of us explored the land, peering down the Black Poplar tubes but missing a tape measure to compare with exactly this date last year when we first measured. Next week when Peter returns, we will do it. Impressed with the mulch on the community garden.
Some of us decorated eggs with hibiscus and onion skin dye.
At the final circle we relayed the news from Emily of her beloved Bonnie, and all of us spoke and sent Emily our love.
It was such a gathering that no one seem to leave at the end.
Kinda Elders in the woods 