{"id":126,"date":"2017-11-21T17:12:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/?p=126"},"modified":"2017-11-25T17:18:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T17:18:45","slug":"collecting-hazel-sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/collecting-hazel-sticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting Hazel Sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Coombs-Stick-Cutting-Team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Coombs-Stick-Cutting-Team-300x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Coombs-Stick-Cutting-Team-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Coombs-Stick-Cutting-Team-768x737.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Coombs-Stick-Cutting-Team-1024x983.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peakdistrict.gov.uk\/looking-after\/volunteering\/ppcv\">Peak Park Conservation Volunteers<\/a> team, specifically Dave Cramp for arranging things and Nick Baker for being our host for the day, Jason, Beth, Lucy, and Adam spent a day weilding bow saws, loppers, and pruning saws in Coombs Wood near Stoney Middleton. A large quantity of hazel was coppiced and among all the pieces of felled timber we found enough suitably-sized, and almost-straight, morris sticks.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; after a few months storage in a well-ventilated dry place, we&#8217;ll be able to add some stick dances to our repertoire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-129 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Coombs-Stick-Cutting-Nick-and-Lucy-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Coombs-Stick-Cutting-Nick-and-Lucy-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Coombs-Stick-Cutting-Nick-and-Lucy-768x1080.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Coombs-Stick-Cutting-Nick-and-Lucy-728x1024.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-128 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Coombs-Stick-Cutting-Jason-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Coombs-Stick-Cutting-Jason-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Coombs-Stick-Cutting-Jason-768x1105.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Coombs-Stick-Cutting-Jason-712x1024.jpg 712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the Peak Park Conservation Volunteers team, specifically Dave Cramp for arranging things and Nick Baker for being our host for the day, Jason, Beth, Lucy, and Adam spent a day weilding bow saws, loppers, and pruning saws in Coombs Wood near Stoney Middleton. A large quantity of hazel was coppiced and among all&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/collecting-hazel-sticks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Collecting Hazel Sticks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/cracken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}