Woodland Skills
Woodland Skills
Heading out of the house for an hour at a time doesn’t really lend itself to rambling. We’re quite lucky in having a bit of wildlife on our doorstep with the fields and woodlands which lie between our home and the M6 but even that isn’t entirely wild. There are a few reminders of it’s past dotted around such as concrete drainage channels, steel posts which at some point would have probably held sturdy pit gates as the whole area would have been unrecognisable 100 years ago. Wigan was extensively mined in the early 19th century and you can still see lines of troughs where mine shafts have been deliberately collapsed, dotted around the area. It’s all a lot greener now and nature is doing it’s thing, but the scars are still there if you look hard enough.
So with Lockdown preventing any proper exploring, we’re resorting to getting the kids outdoors in the back garden. Rachel has made a little rocket-stove for them out of an old stainless steel kitchen utensil holder and has bulk-bought the chocolate biscuits and marshmallows.
Just because you can’t sit beside a real campfire, doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the best bits!