Welcome to winter!

We have now been back in school for two weeks.  It has been rough weather - both wind and snow!
Last week, we sheltered in the shed and then managed to nail a couple of panels onto our compost bays.

The school was closed last Friday as the area had a power cut due to wind damage across the region.  Here you can see a branch has fallen from the trees above - luckily we were not around for it to fall on!

As always when there is a strong wind, lots of panels blew out of the OJ greenhouse!  When the weather improves, one of our main jobs will be to re-fix the greenhouse to the ground (it is held with concrete blocks just now!) and then add extra struts to secure the panels properly.  You can see also, the benches need to go back in as well.

Meanwhile the rest of the garden is asleep under the snow!

On Wednesday this week, we attached a few more panels.  Our compost heaps now have two panels left to add, then we will have two bays complete.  We will add layers of green garden waste and brown twigs plus sawdust to help the decomposition process.

The old Christmas pudding we put out for the birds had completely gone!  We topped up the table and feeder with seeds and nuts.  Thursday this week was very wet, snowy and cold so we ate our lunch and chatted before retreating early!  We have started to plan crops for next spring and will soon be ordering some seeds.

The Forest School group this week took a snowy walk to assess the storm damage and work that would need to be done to clear the paths at Evanton Woods.

It was very scenic with trees hanging with snow.