At long last, a beautiful week of sunshine!

Julian and Craig 'enjoyed' some fantastic sunny weather felling larch poles in Coed Tyllwyd, in preparation for building a woodland workshop.

Julian was especially fond of the long walk uphill to the felling site - so much more stimulating than working on boring flat felling sites!

 For myself it was great to meet two people so committed to living on the land and working with wood.  It is a privilege to be able to meet people at the beginning of their journey or working with trees.  So many people I have trained have gone on to do amazing things.

Julian is already an accomplished chainsaw carver www.derwyddjones.com who now knows for sure that he doesn't want a career felling trees!

Craig has his own smallholding and is starting the road from IT Consultant to self-sufficient farmer/woodsman.

Just for the record, matter how successful you are or will become, at some point we will all be challenged by rewinding the starter spring!

Many thanks to Craig and Julian.  Here are a couple of feedback comments from them:


Craig: 'If I'd have known how hard this course was going to be, I'd never have done it ...... but having done it, I'm very glad that I did'

Julian: 'Thank God that's over!'