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The interior ceiling of the Savill
Building Visitor Centre at Windsor Great Park, Winner of Winners at
the Wood Awards 2006. West Sussex based Green Oak Carpentry, design
consultants and builders of the Savill Building’s larch gridshell,
won Best Use of British Timber and Katie Walker won both Furniture
& Innovation. See p.5. Photo J Martin
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The
paper version of WoodLots has a new look.
When the cost of posting A4 envelopes
increased dramatically earlier this year redesigning the paper version
of WoodLots into a
smaller A5 format became a necessity. We’ve aimed to achieve this with
minimal change - I hope you find the new layout easy to get around.
Feel free to offer your feedback. We’ve increased
page numbers and, with space to fill, we can encourage more display
advertising to help pay for the free service. Equally, I encourage you
to contribute your ideas, letters, feedback, news items, photos
etc.
The seasonal search for gifts is upon us - I encourage you to take a
fresh look at WoodLots and aim to find some if not all of your
Christmas gifts from these pages.
In particular, Garden & Horticulture, Fine Furniture &
Finished Products, Courses & Training, Events and Publications all
contain potential gifts that support the local rural economy,
celebrate the versatility and renewability of wood and have a
relatively high novelty factor. Books
about wood, products crafted from local wood, creative experiences
with wood or in woodlands - this is the stuff of WoodLots!
This issue includes news about developments at the Woodland Enterprise
Centre, an update on the Forestry Commissions pilot Woodland
Harvesting, Processing & Marketing Grant, news from the Wood
Awards 2006, updates on WoodNet’s activities and of course lots of
timber related advertisements.
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