WOW

On the first three days of March we welcomed students from the occupational therapy course at UWE as volunteer workers at Filnore Woods.

This is part of their training called WOW, Widening Occupation Weeks, where they visit various enterprises to do something different from the exams they have just taken and the placements they will be going on.

On the first day half of them did coppicing while the other half did a great job clearing the former cowshed area and then raking up the cut grass below the viewpoint.  The rain started about 3.30 pm just as they were finishing.

The weather on the second day was almost continuous rain.  This group finished off the raking, slipping and sliding on the slope.  Although very cheery and hard-working, they were so cold and wet by lunchtime that we sent them home.

On day three more coppicing was done, producing a nice lot of bean poles and hedging stakes, 

. . . and a dead hedge was constructed with the waste material.

Thank you WOWers.