The last cache and the Billy Witch

Well, all three logs are now in place, the files are dressed up and in their requisite locations and all that’s needed now is storywalkers!

On Monday I dropped off the last cache box in Culbone woods and found one of these bugs. They are huge, the one in the photo I took the day before as it had been trying to fly through our kitchen window. They are called Cockchafers (I kid you not!! have a look at this Wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer ) though I like the name Billy Witch more.


Apparently they were serious pests back in the days before pesticides eating oak leaves mainly, and in ancient Greece children used to tie muslin to the bugs feet and watch them fly in spirals! When this one opened it's wings I was surprised at it's inability to fly up, it just seemed to kamikaze around into the lights (which we then turned off) and he then kamikazed into us!!

 When we dropped the cache and log book off, there were so many people walking the woods it was quite a surprise. One couple suggested it was like Blackpool promenade! Great the woods are walked though and a little shame that the tea making shack of yester year is no longer there at Culbone.

This is round the back of the church, and it's not the best picture but you can see a little chap with pointy ears and a long piggy nose. We wondered if all the residents of Culbone looked like this at one time!

And finally Art on the trail, this walk is so rich in many ways and to find impromptu art just on the path is very refreshing.