It did not rain! Sun shone, the day was full, our bellies full of delicious jacket potatoes and beans. 30 more bicycle rims delivered - we will have our Saturn! Much good work in the tool area making staffs and swords spears and large pencils. Visitors explored the solar system. Leon and Bo practiced their… Continue reading KFS Wed – wood chippings, make up, spears and Solar
It had been 2 or 3 weeks since the Monday tribe had come to the woods what with WINDS such as Denis and Ciara, so there were many changes to find. Above all MORE MUD, but the tribe all came kitted out in an rainbow array of boots and wet suits. 'There's nothing on the… Continue reading KFS Wed March – climbing the fallen oak and Eloise’s tea party
Luis mentioned Jack and Ave were in Italy, may be delayed with the Coronavirus outbreak there, so we discussed this virus and how with this connection the danger came to us in this Suffolk wood. Gabrielle the Forgetful announced his imminent departure to the US and sadly he is leaving us just before our solar… Continue reading KFS Wed – more mud, climbing the felled oak, seeing Jupiter and birthdays
Mell and Lorna took our worms, and their Rights and the Earth, down to Aldeburgh for the exhibition 'ARE WE GOOD ANCESTORS?'
After storm Ciara, a top of an oak fell, impacting the forest floor and leaving a limb dangling precariously above. We had to walk around Jupiter, which was strictly out of bounds. Mell arrived early to do a risk assessment issolating the dangerous area with keep out flags. We had singing almost all day when… Continue reading KFS Wed January – after storm Ciara
It started with the Trike, the Trike that became the International Space Wagon (Solar Powered) Space Disco. This is Lewin the project leader from the outset, spring 2018. Dave lending a vital bike hand, adapting one of the links in the bike chain. The Saturn Ring project Here's Lewin describing the sum total of our… Continue reading Kinda Bike Project
Still more mud, glorious mud. The mud kitchen is the least muddy area of forest school, and our kitchen is a symphony to mud (I did over hear Kym say, she'd just swept the floor, when someone commented on the mud quality). The tribe love it of course. At one moment Tris said, I've just… Continue reading Jan Home Ed: Mud, Jupiter, flour, little people
With Eloise and Launa, planting snow drops, harts tongue fern, climbing up high. Cutting wood. At the end the whole tribe came to see the workers at work coppicing the woodland, cutting back the hazel, putting brush over its stool to protect it from deer munching.
A day full of visitors, and Eloise's very last Wednesday, oh we will miss her. She was as speedy as ever with our morning warm up wolf chase (1,2,3). There was a delightful tea party at the end, inspired by Eloise, of cucumber sandwiches (gluton free and gluton bread), blue berry hot x buns toasted… Continue reading KFS Wed – Eloise’s tea party, cycles, pheasants,blowing embers
Kinda Elders in the woods 