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Watchcraft - Enjoying the craic with the funghis

5 GoodGymers made their way to help the Forestry England - Leigh Woods in Bristol.

  • Alice Whale
  • Bristol runner
  • Melanie Young
  • Fiona Lewis
  • VaguelyNorthernDarren
 
Friday, 14th of June 2019
 
Led by Melanie Young
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Many hands make light work of dismantling dens made by many other hands over quite a long time.

Some of the "host" trees were suffering from not enough air and space so we'd been asked to dismantle the big dens that had been built up at Leigh Woods. We felt a bit like the fun police, but the aim is to enable the dens to be re-built in time.

We tried various tactics from javelin throwing to caber tossing, always enjoying the loud crack as logs fell to the ground. And spotted a fair variety of fungus on the logs.

After a dry half hour, the rain came back with a vengeance by we carried on to clear the next couple of dens and celebrated Fii's wizardry at setting her phone on the woods and using her watch as a remote control to take a fab few photos.

Hopefully we'll be back to play in the woods soon, now we know that if we build dens big enough, we can help take them down again!

Report written by Melanie Young


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Fiona Lewis
Fiona Lewis
Friday June 14th, 2019 21:23

Love all the fungi pics Mel! Thanks for organising this one and for putting the report together ☺️

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Melanie Young
Led by Melanie Young

Area Activator for Bristol Loves being outdoors and being active, helping make the world a happier place to be one day at a time. Eats cake.

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