Bridgewood weblog

7 Jun 09   Access work almost finished

I went to Bridgewood this afternoon to see how the work providing car access onto the site is getting on. I've taken some pictures, and it's now almost finished: the work with the heavy machinery is now backing towards the entrance gate, rather like working back to the door when you're painting a floor! [more...]
18 Apr 09   www bridgewood org uk

I've now moved the Bridgewood pages onto their own site, www.bridgewood.org.uk , along with the Open Air BDSM listings. This is primarily in the hope of getting better Google rankings for searches including "bridgewood", but it also simplifies things a bit and makes it easier to send people the website's address. [more...]
25 Mar 09   Spring in Bridgewood

The weather was lovely at the weekend, with sun all day and quite warm at lunchtime. I took this picture showing the Glade starting to come to life, with the ground that was trampled during felling and clearing now turning green again. The contrast with the view from January is striking. [more...]
5 Mar 09   The Green Wood Centre

I went to The Green Wood Centre in Ironbridge at the weekend, partly to see what it's like and partly for the Small Woods Association meeting being held there. It was quite an eye-opener. [more...]
21 Feb 09   Green shoots ... at Bridgewood at least

No green shoots in the economy yet, but it was a sunny spring day in Bridgewood today and the ground has a scattering of new growth. The red shape in the bottom-left corner is Scarlet Elf Cup, a type of mushroom that grows on decaying wood, and also comes out in spring.
7 Feb 09   Bridgewood in the snow

There was about an inch of snow on the ground today. I took these pictures and a short video, and did some work tidying up from last time. The snow revealed a lot of small animal and bird tracks! [more...]
6 Feb 09   Trafalgar Square vs Bridgewood

I couldn't sleep last night, so I started playing around with Google Maps, and ended up superimposing a rough outline of Bridgewood onto a satellite image of Trafalgar Square at the same scale. Ahem. Maybe I should try cocoa or something? [more...]
30 Jan 09   New Glade and Middle Ride pages

I've written pages about the the Glade and Middle Ride. They're mostly links to existing pictures and text, but they show how both parts of the wood developed during 2008.
17 Jan 09   Felling tree video

I made a short video of one of the trees I felled today, in this case using yellow plastic wedges hammered into the back cut to tip it over. I left a thicker hinge than usual because of the branch snagged in a fork, so it would come down slowly with the wedges rather than straight away after the chainsaw cuts. [more...]
14 Jan 09   The Glade Cleared, with a short video

I've now finished the work of clearing the Glade, which I talked about in this post last month, and I've put up a short video showing how it now looks from the centre. [more...]

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