Archive for December 2022

Down the woods

Posted by on December 29th 2022 in Foraging, Great Escapes, Pics

It's not all about finding firewood:

 

Occasionally we find something much more interesting:

A Red-tailed Hawk.

Visitors

Posted by on December 28th 2022 in Rambling on...
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For some unknown reason, this place seems to be popular today:

 

Prevent Calendar

Posted by on December 26th 2022 in Health, or lack thereof, Just for fun
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The World's most uninspiring Advent-style Calendar.

With 52+ pages it covers a whole year and so far there's been no chocolate.

 

Foraging

Posted by on December 24th 2022 in Foraging, Pics
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There's a Hobbit hiding away in this clickable pic. Kudos if you can find her:

 

Said Hobbit emerged to take this impressive pic:

 

Clearly her phone's camera is much better than mine!

Gath’ring winter fuel

Posted by on December 21st 2022 in In the garden, Making stuff

We're having a wood-burning stove fitted next month, so we've been preparing for the big day.

All of this wood was locally-foraged and free, and no live wood was cut other than the trunks pruned from our hazels and buddleia.

It should help to keep our future heating bills at an affordable level:

 

We built this during the "big freeze"... two or three more days of foraging, sawing and splitting should see it filled:

"Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice"

Bullshit

Posted by on December 16th 2022 in A bit of a rant
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Fuckwits.