Through the
volunteering I do for the
Essex Wildlife Trust , I ended up being invited along to their Woodland Management Day at
Belfair's Woodland Centre. I'd quote forgotten about it until the email reminder I received on Tuesday saying they were looking forward to seeing me on Sunday.
Last week was a bit of a busy one, as my
day job had me traveling around the country quite a bit. It wasn't until Friday evening that I had the time to start preparing stuff for my stall.
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| Spoons I have lying around |
Fortunately I have a fair amount of spoons and such lying around. Unfortunately they tend to be in various stages of completion. So on Friday night I got them all together and start to finish off the ones that needed the least work.
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| A little decoration. |
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| All I did to this elm burr scoop was sand it. First spoon I've sanded for years! |
I ended up with about 30 spoons in a state I was happy to try and sell them. On Saturday I had quite a few other tasks that needed to get done but I managed to write out price tags for all the stock.
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| Priced up and ready to go |
On the day itself, the weather was abysmal. It was cold and raining hard. Unsurprisingly not a whole lot of people were inspired to head out into the woods so the turn out was a little poor. Fortunately for me, I was only there for fun and spent pretty much all of my time carving, drinking tea and chatting to interesting folk. Which made it a very enjoyable Sunday for me. The Trust will be running another woodland management day in March. I'll definitely be attending, and for them, I hope the weather is a little fairer.
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| My stall. |
