We went to our club and met a real woodcutter there! He was really good at the woodcuttery stuff, showed us all his knives and saws and things and even how to make a spoon out of a twig of silverbirch! (It actually went pretty well, and he made the right amount of dip and the right amount of wood and things in it. And he even said that he had learnt how to do it out of a Ray Mears book as his first try of carving something.)
I’ll write you a bulleted list of facts:
- Silver birch is probably the easiest wood to cut
- Big trees are actually very hard to find, and small ones not, so only cut down big ones for good reasons
- If you left a block of ash untouched for about twenty years, when you came back it’d be gone
Those are some of the facts I learnt at there I properly understood, but others I didn’t…
There were some activities in the hub, all of which I enjoyed. We made some funky spoons and flower-pot-models and things. It was fun!
Then me and Liv-Astrid (my new friend) and Tilly and Katie went to the park. There we played, chatted and argued, mainly but mainly not having any fun. I don’t know which, but I do know that it was pretty fun before the arguing.
