Month: September 2011

  • Sad Tree, Happy Tree

    Our new-to-us woodland has a large number of standing dead trees or ones with bits dangerously hanging off. Whilst I need to wait until autumn proper to kick off the program of works that is rapidly forming in my head, I am slowly racheting my time up at the woods which is no hardship. Today…

  • Clearing a path

    Our woodland is in need of some TLC, as things currently stand we can’t get to all parts of it because it is so overgrown. We’ve no management plan yet so we want to minimise any changes but we identified one blockage between the two main clearings that if removed would mean we could at…

  • Buying Land with a Pension

    Before I begin let’s get the disclaimer out of the way: I’m not a financial advisor nor am I ‘regulated by the Financial Services Authority’ and your risk profile, circumstances, motivations & world view are likely to be totally different to mine. Do your own research. DO NOT take the following article to be in any…