No smoke without fire

Long hike to the Green Gym site today.  Arrows had been sprayed on the ground to stop us getting lost.  We were at the nature reserve where a lot of willow has been cut down by one of the lakes, to enable ground nesting birds to build without fear of foxes etc.  Eventually it is planned to make 'The Bund' into an island to give even better protection.  It was freezing cold with bright blue sky and a strong wind.  It took us all our time to keep it stoked up.  We had two fires at one point and proceedings were supervised by two ex boy scouts in our midst!  You could feel he heat from several feet away.