<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1192" alt="woodworks-festival(sept13)" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/woodworks-festivalsept13.jpg" width="150" height="200" />It has been two years since we went to the Woodworks Festival at Marston Vale in Bedfordshire. We were introduced to it by our friends Kate and Martin now living in Bulgaria. The festival focuses on country crafts, natural England and forestry. The last time we visited it was very wet and there weren't many opportunities to get away from the music tent to see other activities because it was tipping down with rain.

Thankfully the weather was reasonable and we went round all the stalls and watched some excellent, informative demonstrations on training horses, using gun dogs, ferrets and falcons to hunt rabbits and carving with chainsaws.

We finished the afternoon listening to Berkhampstead Ukulele Random Players or BURP who played an eclectic repertoire that normally wouldn't have been on our playlist but certainly amused us.