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Holiday pictures:

We went to Symonds Yat Rock and saw peregrine falcons and a buzzard soaring

We had a lovely tent in the forest

We rested under the trees and had gentle adapted yoga with the sunset, blissful

under the copper beeches…..

amazing sunsets, no hills like in wales so such big skies and skyscape views! 

sweet bertie dog

We went to the fab scultpure trail. http://www.forestofdean-sculpture.org.uk/

There were some problems, they said it was wheelchair accessable and we found it truly wasn’t. So they kindly drove us around it and are changing the website and leaflets. It may be suitable for powerchairs but not for me! I hope it is made truly accessable one day soon….

this lovely lady from the forestry commission Judith took us around

these are carved railroad sleepers…

I love this one, a hugs fir cone and cup sculpture. there are sculptures scattered through the forest, some are not marked on the map, secret ones people just come across…

This sculpture is an echo of the old stone quarry behind it. Some of the pictures are far away as they were taken from the car, I wasn’t well enough to get out of the car for them all and not all there accessable anyway, we got to see lots of them though.

This is my favorite! The Cathedral! A huge stained glass window showing scenes from the Forest. Its just in the middle of the trees. Magical

this picture is for scale. that is linus and bertie underneath! even we didn’t realise how big it was before we saw this photo, the scale is lost in the scale of the forest but wow it is massive and gorgeous

and on the way home I painted a vase at Taurus Crafts. It arrived in the post today after being fired and glazed. Tommorrow a friend is coming over to help me and I am looking forward to her picking some flowers to go in it from the hedge next to our house, I think some honeysuckle would be beautiful there!

It was a fabulous holiday, I can’t say that some of the illness/ pain/ access disabilitty stuff wasn’t tough and challening as it was but we loved it. An amazing time, living a dream of sleeping in the woods, relaxing and returning to a de cluttered home ( see http://basicmissions.com/?page_id=206 appreciate and be free)

We are looking forward to going again and resting lots to recover from this trip

Tons of love and thanks for reading, see you soon and over at basicmissions.com

all love, Grace and Linus xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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