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7 Apr 08 Pheasants, Photos and Plans

I went to the wood on Saturday and did some more work laying out woodland tracks (rides) and taking some photographs of signs of spring. I've also written a page describing outline plans for the wood and where I'm going with it. [more...]

21 Mar 08 Chains, felling and badgers

I made two trips to the wood this week: one on Sunday with popi to do some BDSM and one yesterday to begin establishing tracks. [more...]

10 Mar 08 Completion Day

I completed the purchase of Bridgewood today, so the first part of my next trip will be putting a new padlock on the gate. It also means I can start cutting out the woodland tracks ("rides") which I roughed out using last time's survey. [more...]

29 Feb 08 The Japanese have a name for it ...

"Shinrin-yoku" is literally "forest-air bathing" and means taking in the woodland atmosphere.

25 Feb 08 Woodland survey and pictures

I had another trip down to the wood at the weekend, armed with GPS receiver, spade, and camera. I've received a proper plan of the boundary as part of the draft contract, but it doesn't show the relative positions of places inside the wood, so I wanted to get a better picture of it all in my head, and look for signs of spring. [more...]

22 Feb 08 Longer than you'd think...

How long have the English, Scots, Welsh and Irish been in the British Isles? At school, we were told that the Celts had turned up with the Iron Age, maybe around 300 BC and not long before the Romans came and conquered them in turn. The peoples who built Stone Henge and left bronze axe heads had been wiped out by the Celts, but when Imperial Rome gave up, the Celts - now called Britons - were left to their own devices. Waves of Angles, Saxons and Jutes from North Germany and Denmark then invaded, driving the Britons into Cornwall, Wales, Brittany and Scotland - so only Anglo-Saxons were left in England [more...]

20 Feb 08 Bridgewood contract and plan

I've now received the draft contract and title plan for Bridgewood, and I understand the local searches are being done. Hopefully we can complete at the start of next month. Getting an accurate map of the property prompts the idea of doing more detailed mapping myself, and I'm thinking of doing a rough GPS survey to identify some of the features such as the glade shown in my first woodland post and the central clearing. [more...]

12 Feb 08 Woodland and BDSM links

Yesterday I posted about making an offer for 19 acres of woodland. In researching this whole subject over the last few months I've collected quite a lot of relevant links, which I'm going to go through now for future reference and to give a broader picture of what's involved. [more...]

11 Feb 08 Buying some woodland

I've had my offer to buy some woodland accepted. I've been looking at various pieces of woodland since the autumn, but this one, Bridgewood, has been the best of the bunch: 19 acres of broadleaf woodland on the southern end of the Cheshire plain between Manchester and Birmingham. The wood is very secluded - it's surrounded by streams and ditches on all sides, with a single access point - and includes a lot of young shrubby growth so it's also well screened. [more...]

5 Feb 08 The first Manchester Munch

Next Saturday is the 10th Anniversary Manchester Munch and I thought I'd write a bit about the first Manchester Munch and how it came about. [more...]

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