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Rough Around the Edges Project Update

Pupils and parents from the school at Widmer End had a great morning making bird and hedgehog boxes with me on the calm Saturday before the storm that followed. They have now put in lots of homes for hedgehogs, birds and amphibians around their new pond…

The Bodger, by Alice Dean

by Alice Dean

Andy Dean, one of our Woodlanders volunteers, has found all kinds of treasures in his private archives, including this account of bodgers’ lives and work written by his grandmother, Alice Dean who became the family historian. Alice starts by describing watching her father-in-law, Richard Dean, working his pole lathe.