I can’t believe we are so close to finishing here. Tonight we said goodbye to Ollie as he is off early tomorrow for a course so we won’t see him again before we go. He gave us a full collection of bird language stuff on a memory stick which we’ll explore further at the weekend, teary hugs and promises to stay in touch.
Today has been another good day. This morning was more wood chopping and I did some too which was good as I quite like chopping wood, but I was on the side of a hill and five times the bits I split rolled off the block and all the way down the hill which was rather frustrating! The kids spent time with Rowan lighting fires :).
Lunch was early which shortened the morning somewhat and we spent some time chatting to Jon, who was the first person from here we met about 3 years ago at our first Green Fair when he was manning a stall there to promote the courses held here. I remember chatting to him back then and him saying to me ‘maybe one day we’ll see you at Steward Wood’. Today he said that we would be welcome back here to stay any time as friends, not WWOOFers 🙂
Ady and I walked down to the van after lunch as Davies and Scarlett were going to the park with Son & Asha and there was the promise of hot chocolates from the cafe on the way so they needed funds. We waved them off and they had a fab few hours, proved by some pictures and video clips Son showed us on her phone later :).
I spent some time with Dan in the kitchen, talking about spiritual stuff which was very interesting. He was telling me about Shamanic stuff and the sounds of the universe :). I chopped some kindling and helped him carry some of the Riverford delivery around to various people’s houses. Then Chris asked me to help with some weeding of veg beds which was nice as we’ve done hardly any gardening.
Ady and I had early baths before dinner as tonight was Story telling. We gathered around the fire pit and Jon told the story of How Fox Stole Fire which ended with a friction started fire with everyone blowing to start it, then Dan told a story about Peace including some drumming. All very magical and lovely.
In lots of ways we’re ready to leave here, it’s only the very beginning of our adventure after all but in many more ways it will feel quite a wrench and we’ll definitely be back.