Balance
Everything has its pros and its cons. Every job has good tasks and annoying tasks. Every week has productive days and slow days. Forest School sessions have their ups and downs. This week has been the perfect example of that! It has been gloriously sunny, that equinox weather that comes twice a year, cold mornings, sometimes even frosty, followed by a clear blue day and rising temperatures that mean you end up carrying half your clothing home in a bag! Layers are the secret to all Forest School dressing! After a bright and cheerful weekend, I arrived at basecamp on Monday to find we'd had visitors. To use the legal term we'd had trespassers. This happens way too often. Mostly it's very minor disruption. I have to remove their empty alcohol bottles, their food wrappers, stand up all the log stools, put basecamp back into a circle, and check over the site. Obviously, all the time muttering to myself because it eats into my set-up time and makes me nervous about what I might h...