2024 - 4 Months of doing something different

Fuddy duddy it is then!

Walked through a wood I am thinking of buying today. I say 'walked' I should have said 'scrambled'. Kato and I kept getting tangled in brambles trying to find the boundary fences? There are a couple of clearings but it is very overgrown and the top half is at a steep slope. I really don't know whether I am up to the work involved in taming it? If managed correctly it could keep me in firewood for the forsesble future but I couldn't let Kato run free when I was using brushcutters and chainsaws and it would be wrong to leave him cooped up in the motorhome! I need to get my thinking cap on and do some serious thinking!

Was there anywhere to park up for the night? Neighbours? Was it a larger wood that had been subdivided? Public footpaths? Water source?

There was a parking spot but it was next to a minor road and a streetlamp.(Only seen one car on this road in the couple of hours I was there)I could see some houses from the parkup but there was an option for a parkup deeper into the wood which would have been more secluded but take a good bit of work to facilitate.There was a public footpath on the plans but it was oergrown and impossibl to navigate without a lot of cutting back. No water source but a boggy clearing that would make a good pond. It was a wood between two roads, a major road and a minor road but thre was a bit of noise from the major road. The only way I new where the footpath must have been at one time was a style in a fence, but no path to it? I have decided to give it a miss, but will still keep looking. The advantage it had was that it was only  8 miles from where I live.