Today the children wandered the woodland. Firstly there are the bramble bushes to pick from on the walk down to the woods from the farmya...

Today was one of those trolley pulling, wood collecting, tree climbing, dust kicking, wheat field exploring, gate climbing, lamb cooing, ...

The children took the trolley for an amble through the woods to collect wood for a fire. We all got distracted along the way, climbing so...

The black berry are out! They tasted, sweet, sharp and delicious. They made great paint. As did the charcoal, which we used so much of, w...

It was a kind of hand washing, wood collecting, stick dragging, bow sawing, hand drilling, string threading, decorating, knot tying, char...

With a brilliant bunch of children we had the most fantastic time. Rain sheltering, coat zipping, hand washing, wood collecting, steel sp...

After the driest spring and summer, we decided that today was the day for final preparations in the woods, just as it started to rain! Th...

This year the garden has been rather full of bees, bumbles, hoverflies, wasps, moths and butterflies fluttering by. You can join in with ...

and parking, planning and pootling around. We've been having lovely lazy days in the sunshine hanging out with the teenagers and a few of...

So one of our day jobs is teaching in a fantastic little school and today we are officially out for summer! We have had an inset day of ...

It's the end of another week. It's the end of another term. It's the end of another year. That all came round a bit quick this time. We a...

It has been a busy week catching up with the end of term wind down and the preparations for the start of the summer holidays and beyond. ...

It's only a week to go before the end of term....! Always an exciting time for those of us that spend out lives working and living with s...

It has been a long few months and it seems about the time to get on with life now. We've been busy getting on with being back at work and...

The sun has just kept on shining, shining, shining through the cloudless skies of recent days, weeks and months. As we write this, we fin...

So another week done and another whole term done. It's end of summer term Friday, on the cusp of a week of bank holiday summer fun. It's...

We've had a quiet couple of weeks of ups (watching a Spitfire fly over the local hospital on VE Day from an idyllic picnic spot) and peri...

Although it is way past the 2nd February, the traditional Groundhog Day in the States, it certainly feels like it here just now. The supe...

Yesterday saw sun, drizzle rain, hail, thunder, lightning, rainbows, wind and sun again. We love a bit of weather, so hid inside and took...

We are greatly missing the sessions in the woods and all of the fabulous children we usually share the space with every week. The small m...