Glorious sunshine! At last! It couldn’t have been more perfect for the show. Partly because of this we were incredibly busy especially on the Saturday.

Thanks to everyone who came to see our stall and Table of Death. Also thanks to all the traders. It was great catching up with everyone too numerous to mention – but particularly our neighbours Woodsmoke, Dave Mark and Helen Shark, Dave Watson and Ben Orford.

As usual we ran tracking sessions and, new for this year, we were demonstrating our Countryside courses with our new stars, Poppy the Polecat ferret, Harry the Hawk and Mr Spock the owl. All of whom went down a storm.

I was on stage for a talk about Tracking in the British Woodland that drew a bit of a crowd and received some great feedback.

Thanks to everyone who assisted on the stand – Richard, Beccy and Luke. Also a big well done to Jason, who organised the stand and us as part of his instructors module. I think Jason appreciated it’s not that easy running a show and getting us lot organised as you can see form the photo above!

Once again and for the third year running, we are attending the Bushcraft Show in Elvaston, Derbyshire.

It starts this Saturday and goes on until close of play Monday. The weather WILL be good!

The show is well worth the visit with loads of attractions and familiar faces from the Bushcraft world like Lofty Wiseman and the husband and wife pair Mykel Hawkes and Ruth English from the series “Man, Woman, Wild”. There’s also a visit from the Masai.

What to expect from Woodlife Trails? Well, as usual we will be there with dead things and this year some live things as well in the shape of our ferrets and Harry the Hawk.

You will most probably get an opportunity to fly Harry yourself if the conditions are right.

We will also be doing Tracking and Awareness workshops and I will be presenting a talk on Tracking in the British Woodlands, which is guaranteed to make most “tracking” schools sit up and take notice.

Here’s a link to our shows page:

http://www.woodlife.co.uk/shows/

We hope to see you there.