Spent the day watching the weather as the MET office were predicting winds of 37 miles an hour. So at lunch time I was filling the FS flask with hot water as I was expecting that we would be running the session indoors and we aren’t allowed to light fires in the school hall. As I walked through Holt towards the school the wind died off with each footstep.
We had another new helper this week who is cousin to Chris Holland of “love my world” fame. It’s great to now have three adults supporting the children when they need it. So after around of name, animal and action the group went and got some extra chopping blocks from the front of the school. There was some really nice cooperation amongst the group as they tried to get really big logs back to the FS site.
Because of the wind the group worked on one of the dens that was not under a big tree, this led to some of them exploring an old platform which we started last summer built in a small tree. With a lot of the wood taken out of the tree and ending up in the den on the ground there was still room for a couple to sit up on what was left in the tree.
With some energy burnt off, hot chocolate drunk and biscuit munched we started on our spoons. Concentration is still a problem for some in the group so it always seems to take along time to get started as I’m not willing to give any of them a knife until the whole group is switched on. Once they were all ready, they worked hard and there was hardly any chatter. I had showed the group how to use the chopping block and the crook knife. It is good to see them using a number of different techniques to carve their spoons. Sometimes you do need to step in as carvers forget to only cut away from them or don’t appear to be concentrating and the knife is going everywhere. The interesting thing to observe is when the group starts pointing out to each other where they are going wrong, ‘So and so, you aren’t sitting forward enough or hold the sheath at the bottom.
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