Wombling Free

Spending most of our time away from our homes and families doing something we are paid to do, to earn money to pay for the things we need for ourselves our homes and families. However there is nowhere stranger than Running Deer and the motley selection of people that work there. I say this with admiration, as I feel that we are a disparate group of similar thinking, somewhat like minded but extremely different and divergent individuals. And the things we get up to!

Sometimes I feel like we are all wombling about ‘making good use of the things that we find, things that the everyday folk leave behind” (Mike Batt) as can be evidenced by some of the structures that now exist in Butterdon Woods.

One fine day in September Alex and I upgraded the recently upgraded and re-sited staff toilet facilities as although we now had an external urinal area it had no roof. This had been fine but with the rainy season approaching it felt like a problem we should get ahead of. After some rummaging about (mental and physical) we came up with a few useful items and supplemented this with some hazel branches to fashion a beautiful rustic creation which still keeps you relatively dry in inclement weather (which we are still experiencing in MAY!!!)