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Wreath Making Day – Sat 9th December
Humber Woodland Wreath Making
Planting Day Saturday 28th October (10am to 2pm)
Planting Day at Humber Woodland
20 years of Humber Woodland
2023 marks 20 years of Humber Woodland of Remembrance. In this short film Diane talks about her inspiration for Humber Woodland, her love for the countryside and how the woodland has changed over the last 20 years See our video here.
‘Woodland Burial’ by Pam Ayres
Don’t lay me in some gloomy churchyard shaded by a wall
Where the dust of ancient bones has spread a dryness over all,
Lay me in some leafy loam where, sheltered from the cold
Little seeds investigate and tender leaves unfold.
There kindly and affectionately, plant a native tree
To grow resplendent before God and hold some part of me.
The roots will not disturb me as they wend their peaceful way
To build the fine and bountiful, from closure and decay.
To seek their small requirements so that when their work is done
I’ll be tall and standing strongly in the beauty of the sun.
Reproduced by kind permission of Pam Ayres, from her book Surgically Enhanced
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