One seriously fabulous compost loo...in the making!

Saturday was a great day, full of activity which at all times looked like organised activity, and not chaos at all! I say that, slightly tongue in cheek. It was not chaos, it was organised chaos and it was the smell of cedar wood and the sound of power tools that made saturday a gorgeous day! The compost loo went up in a matter of eight hours, and the chaps from learning from the land did a truly magnificent job. There are a few things left to do but the loo itself was in full working order the following morning, when the glue had dried. I think that in this case, pictures say it all and so I will add a few of the many, many pictures we took of the building of the compost loo. Some pictures are of the compost loo and others are of all the happenings that were occuring at the same time...a lot of fun was had as the day went into the evening and we ended the night with the lighting of lanterns and a spot of overnighting in the bell tent.

Getting the dogs ready for a weekend in the woods.

Frank using child labour to cut the chicken wire...ingenius!

Roo and Meg discover that other animals live in hay bales...
and the first post goes in.

George...and the building starts to look like something...

How many children does it take to saw a log?...4?

And a frame appears

All the girls had journey sticks too with lots of wonderful items they
found to wrap around them, and talk about them later on.

Someone working really hard!

Its an accessible compost loo - don't you know!
 Beautiful organic hazel hand rails too...

Where would we be today without the power tools? 

Ahh, the lovely Sarah and Sam with the dogs -
in the audience, supervising the building.

And a spot of tree climbing was in order too.

The audience, again.

George saws through 4 planks of wood...I have to say I was impressed!



Looking more and more like a building now



Check out the roof

Frank...not sure what he was doing...

What colour shall we paint the door?

Drinking tea and discussing tree houses

Some more tree climbing, anyone? Monkey feet only!

The magical hour.

How clothes ought to look after having a lot of woodland fun!

So - as you can see, it was a great weekend for the Woodland Play Centre.
We hope to see you on 2nd July at the Blackdown Hills Woodland Fair - and we are very much looking forward to it!