Lou Sanders
May Days
After the downpours at the weekend, we were glad for the light breeze and the return of the sunshine this week. We have started to build...
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Lou Sanders
Jul 24, 20201 min read
Flutterbies
This year the garden has been rather full of bees, bumbles, hoverflies, wasps, moths and butterflies fluttering by. You can join in with...
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Lou Sanders
Jul 19, 20202 min read
Summer Sun
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...
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sawpitwoods
Apr 7, 20201 min read
Busy doing nothing
I've mainly been busy doing nothing. I did spend time at school tidying, sorting and shredding old papers. It's not the same without the...
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sawpitwoods
Apr 3, 20203 min read
Friday flowers
It's been a changeable week. Small scale ups and downs of productivity and inaction. As a family we are slowly adjusting to the altered...
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sawpitwoods
Apr 1, 20202 min read
Starting a Forest Garden
As there is no Forest School sessions going on currently, there is time to spend starting a Forest garden. It has been inspired by family...
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sawpitwoods
Mar 26, 20201 min read
School day
I spent a day in school today. All very peaceful and clam. Quite unlike a usual Thursday. We started with an hour of laptop work, spaced...
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sawpitwoods
Mar 25, 20202 min read
Week 1
So school is out... maybe for summer, but let’s hope not. That’s not something I’d expect a teacher to say, but there it is. Like the...
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sawpitwoods
Feb 4, 20202 min read
A glimmer of light on the horizon
Imbolc has come and gone, as has January. I spent a day lighting fires and watching them burn out again with a lovely bunch of women in...
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sawpitwoods
Jan 20, 20202 min read
Crisp and cold
A pleasant and fruitful weekend was had with the younger brother in Bristol. We continued the wittering which we started on our wet walk...
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Feb 132 min read
Tree tending Day
We had a wonderful day tending our sapling trees in our Children's Forest adjacent to Sawpit Woods this February. Together we mulched...
Dec 18, 20232 min read
Winter Gathering
We shared a lovely day, gathered in Sawpit Woods to celebrate the middle of winter, the turning of the light and to learn and connect...
Nov 1, 20231 min read
Seed, song and foraging day 24/10/23
We had a wonderful day walking the land and learning about the trees and their seeds. Gathering in the October sunshine, over the rising...
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