Still chugging away at year 2 of the old conservation diploma. Finished my 2nd work placement at Avon Heath. Coming to the end of the course as I believe there's only maybe 12 teaching weeks left, possibly fewer. Nothing remarkable in terms of college at the minute, but finished the freshwater and coastal units. Still on the chainsaw, greenwood crafts, deer ecology and management, and a few others. I was going to take the environmental interpretation unit however I decided just to switch it out for livestock management. Looking forward to the ecological concepts and applications unit which should be starting soon. What else? Nope. Mostly just coursework. Oh, after having dropped the Ecology of Plants book I've picked it up again and slowly mlaking my way through a sea of formulas and BSc/MSc wordage.
Well, spent a lot of time in the New Forest the past few weeks and generally watching a lot of good documentaries, mostly Attenborough. Went to revisit Langley Wood NNR today, without thinking how early it is for wildflowers yet. Give me AWIs! One good thing is that it reminded me that for some reason I never got my own Francis Rose so I just bought one today. Probably a good idea to finally buy the industry standard on pant I.D, eh?
