very delicate. It was hard,
thirsty work.
Even more delicate metalwork is produced by Connie Adam (
casculpture.com). She creates amazing animal sculptures from galvanised steel wire and scrap metal, the results are amazing.
It’s nature, meets industry and human imagination and skills. The wood sculpting is similar: foraged wood turned into amazing creations.
Tree surgeons Drew Holmes and Daniel Woodburne showed off their
rope skills. Tree surgery is taught at Eastern City College in Norwich as part of a course on woodland conservation skills.
And how, you wonder, do the ropes get up the trees in the first place? Well, they use weighted throw ropes and for the taller trees, catapults to get the first ropes to the branches.
There is a shortage of tree surgeons but no shortage of work. Train as a tree surgeon and local employers will snap you up. There are lots of skills
on display associated with the Norfolk Broads. Watermill restoration, the protection of marshland and boatbuilding, ancient skills still in demand and taught at the nearby International Boatbuilding Training College in Lowestoft.
And imagine you could see what wildlife sees? David Atthowe of Reveal Nature specialises in biofluresence which wildlife sees but humans can’t, unless we use special ultraviolet torches.
Bees use it, it assists pollination. Kestrels use it to identify prey. Wildlife sees a whole different world – almost cartoon like – where hedgehogs and crabs glow bright blue.
A ‘Royal Show’ might be misnamed. I didn’t see any royals and very few of the Norfolk County Set. It was an extravaganza of skills, pride in those skills and the result of those skills. Where livestock, wildlife and nature met in some sort of harmony.
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