The hideaway

Two years ago some friends and I found a place in the woods and we made it our special meeting place. We had some chairs and a table and a little stream down the middle. It was going perfectly until some other kids broke it to pieces. After that it all started to go all wrong. The meeting place was what kept us all together. So we started looking for a new one. We looked hard but found none, so we gave up. We stopped looking and we each did our own thing.

One day one of my friends and I were having a walk thinking about the idea my friend's dad had given us. He said that they used to have a hideaway inside a bramble bush. He also said they had cut out the inside of the bush and made it hollow so they could be inside. We were walking alongside a bramble bush and we went through a little passage and looked to the right. Our eyes met and I knew we were both thinking the same thing. It was the perfect spot for a new meeting place. If we only had the patience to perfect it it would be excellent. So we went back and told the others.

The next day the work began.

My brother and I took some pruning scissors and started cutting. Two hours later we were already half way through. The branches we cut, we used as a little dam to hold the water in the stream. We also used the dam as a bridge.

The following day we finished the clearing and cleaned it all up. That same afternoon we brought some tree stumps and lay them around. A week later we found some cut up branches and set them up in different places.

We enjoyed it until summer ended. After that we couldn't go weekly so the bush grew and covered it all up.

This summer we cleared it all up again and set up a basket with nuts for the birds and animals. I also planted some lawn. And its all looking excellent.

That's how we made our new woodland hideaway.