“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt”  Margaret Atwood

In my previous blog post I wrote of mud and ice, and how we were looking forward to spring.  Two months later and we feel like we’re only just getting there.  The Beast from the East and weeks more rain meant that our Easter holiday forest schools were some of the muddiest on record.  But as our photos posted on our Facebook page show, our forest schoolers are a hardy bunch and took it all in their stride with lots of creative muddy play.  I love this tweet from one of our freelance practitioners, Ruth McBain … (more…)