Rye Fawkes 2013 bonfire, parade and fireworks - video & photos

Brilliant parade, fireworks and bonfire in Rye last night!

Here's a short video I put together of the highlights...

Loads of burning torches in the parade, and no accidental fires as far as I could see!

though it did look like this guy might have an accident...

Big crowds as usual, thousands of people there!

Looking forward to the next time...

Mike

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Ashden Awards 2013!

Just come to the end of another great Ashden Awards week! If you only watch one of our winners' films from this year, make sure it's this one, from Hollybush Primary school in Derry:

There's loads more videos on the Ashden YouTube channel, and you can download copies of the films, as as well as case studies and photos, from the Ashden website.

Mike

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Snow in the woods Jan 2013

With the snow over the last few days, I did of course have to make a trip to the wood to see how it was looking! I'd been busy at a Recycle Swap Shop earlier on Saturday, and as I had the trailer with me for that, I collected some Holly we'd felled into the garden of a woodland neighbour and headed into the woods with it...

There's a moderate amount of snow, but not as much as last winter:

I got the Holly moved onto the stack of green wood, and split up the big lumps - looking forward to burning these heavy logs in a couple of years!

Not sure we're going to get any more snow in the coming week or so, but there's still all of February...

Mike

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