We had a huge disappointment over the weekend.

32 acres of woodland came up in Pembrokeshire on Thursday afternoon. Friday 8:30am straight after the kids were on the school bus we drove up there (after calling the agent to check it was still on) by 2:30pm I was stomping around it thinking where I could put a green woodworking shelter (like this one on the cover of Mike’s excellent book), was noting where drainage and access needed improving and thinking where we could put some ponds. It was all very exciting.

Like a fool I decided to sleep on it which was a mistake because the next morning when I called to put an offer in I found it had been taken at 4pm the previous day!

We drove home crestfallen with a feeling that we’d never get the wood of our dreams. However after a night’s sleep we felt better and decided that we simply needed to get more agressive in our search.

Enter stage left woodlandwanted.co.uk. We figure that the majority of woods swap hands via specialist (offline) agents or by word of mouth so we’re launching this in the hope that we can get locals to keep an eye out and let us know when something comes up.

Hopefully Google will index it nice and quickly. If you have a blog and feel so inclined then a link to Woodland Wanted would be appreciated to help us get some of that Google love.

In March we’re also going to put adverts in some local papers like we did last year in Herefordshire.

KBO, etc.

Photo courtesy of Wikimedia.