If you go down to the woods today

The out door kitchen

Herefordshire charcoal

The charcoal burner

Sherwood outside his amazing house

I've taken a couple of evenings off work, a) for lambing and b) incase I hadn't got the toilet block finished or the shop ready for the opening of the caravan season, well luckily for me I am just about ready and lambing does seem to be rather slow so this afternoon I took myself off down to Herefordshire to get more charcoal for the shop, off a very aptly named gentleman called Sherwood and what an absolutely lovely afternoon I have had.  Although only 4 miles out of Hereford, in a part of the world I had never travelled before I came across a real woodsman with the most amazing working wood, and to boot he was building an eco cruck beamed house, albeit in its infancy I was totally blown away.   Just bird song and the bluebells shooting through, wood anemones in little clumps everywhere. The kettle was on when I arrived in the outdoor kitchen what a welcome.

Well all I hope for now is some lovely weather over Easter so that everyone will be lighting their barbecues.
Sherwood does woodcraft courses and I am hoping to get a group of us together to go along and make "wooden spoons" they looked like something from Goldilocks and the three bears, they would be wonderful for stirring porridge!