Many of us have been inspired by the wood and by our visits there. Here is a collection of things inspired by time spent in Oakley Wood or other woodland.
At the recent AGM, someone admired (thank you) the photo of Oakley Wood that I was using as the background on my laptop, and I promised I would make it available. It and another I […]
I missed getting out a Christmas greeting, but – as they say – a Happy New Year to all our readers! There’s been lots of rain lately and the new paths in the wood are […]
I made a seat for the wood from brash that was lying about, mostly just to see if I could. No screws or nails, just jointed wood. It seemed OK and surprisingly strong, so I […]
Well, Cathy had us all stumped with her quiz. No-one got it all right. The questions are here, and these are the answers: Acorn Badger Sycamore Woodcock Beech Roe deer Hedgehog Walnut Lichen Wood anemone […]
At our last AGM the evening’s entertainment included a cryptic quiz about the wood to test your brain, devised by our Cathy Kennedy. We’re repeating it here for those who may have missed it. If […]
In case you haven’t made it to the wood recently, here are a few pictures of summer I took last week. The pretty Herb-robert, a type of cranesbill Red campion Hedge woundwort, historically used for […]
It’s a beautiful morning and I’ve come to the wood to collect the memory card from the trail camera. I park at the south-east corner of the wood. As I enter, barely twelve steps in, […]
Anne Chambers has known Oakley Wood for nearly eight decades. Here she shares some of her childhood memories of the wood.
This picture by Ed Phillips is titled “Woodland Dreams”
One of Wendy’s favourite poems, “The Way Through the Woods” by Rudyard Kipling, is superimposed on a photograph she took in Oakley Wood