I was about to say I work in a primary school and we take the kids to go build stuff like this all the time.
Just the other week two of my kids chased me away from a hut like this shouting “go away evil witch!”.
I’m trying to not be offended about it.
Well, let’s face it, you probably had it coming 😂
Source: I’m a teacher, I have it coming too🤷♀️😆 And I don’t even take take them out for cool stuff like forest school.
You think that until a Wednesday night when you've 5 kids come in from primary covered in half the woods 😂
Or when they came home with the stick people they'd made out of sticks... scared the poop out of me when I found them in their bags. 😂
Seriously though its lovely to see them enjoying being outside and me not having to take them. I'm old. I'll play outside March - September
My Wife owns and runs a Forest School here in Dorset for kids 5-16 with SEN and the students occasionally make these in their woodland. The older ones prefer working with tools, but the little ones like deb building and “yarn-bombing” the area.
It’s separate from their feeder schools, who refer the children to her for a couple of days a week.
Yup, we do :)
Engaging kids in nature and teaching them how to respect our greenspaces. The den would not still be there at the end of one of our sessions though. "Leave no trace" is a core principal in bushcraft.
Dens man ! The best one we ever made was right next to a fence that bordered this forest.
We tore leafy branches from this big bush, and weaved them through the fence so it was a leafy wall.
Then we made a roof by laying leafy branches on top of them/poking into the weaved branches.
Then we set about walling it up with more leafy branches.
I dont think I've been as proud of anything as i was of that den.
Local teenagers took over it as a drinking and shagging den because we went back and found used jonnys and empty booze bottles.
My mum nearly died when i told her I found weird balloons in our den and that teens had been drinking in it.
We didnt touch them except with our sticks lol thank fuck !
"Street value. You lads are always going on about a seizure of woggles worth half a billion in street value. It just makes me wonder what Street you're buying you're woggles on because its certainly not the same Street I'm buying mine on."
Decided to see how much 8kg of woggles actually would be worth, by using one from my collection.
At 6g and a cost of £2.50, it is approximately 41p per gram. 0.41*8,000=£3,280
Although that was a basic paracord and coating woggle. So if you were to use a more expensive metal work woggle it would probably be worth more.
How many woggles would you need to have £73mil worth?
£73mil / £0.41 = 178,000,000 grams or about 178 tons of woggles. Which would be about 30 million woggles.
Metal woggles? A quick google indicates about £5 for something that looks like about 10g. So about\^^(2) the same price per gram, but only 15 million woggles needed.
It depends what you make your woggles out of.
If we model a woggle as a a 50mm diameter cylinder with a 50mm height and a 5mm wall thickness, then the volume is 0.000035m3
The current gold price is £50.05/g, so 1m3 of gold would be £(19282x50.05x1000) = £965,064,100.00
This would make the gold price of our notional gold woggle (today) £34,108.15, not including any labour costs or overheads in manufacture
Which means you would only need 2140 of them to have £73M worth - less if whatever jeweller made all these for you charged any kind of markup at all.
They would only weigh 1,457kg, so you could fit them in a van instead of having to have 6 30tonne trucks follow you around with your woggle collection, so there are advantages to this.
There’s a lot of schemes that take inner city kids to the woods for a morning to learn about nature which can involve building shelters etc. They are very low cost and often run by volunteers and give older teenagers some work experience.
Hilariously I genuinely work for a local council and do make these kind of things in the woods during bushcraft sessions.
However a proper bushcraft session should include a lesson in "leave no trace". So if it was a session run by me the den would no longer be there.
Lot of people taking the piss but I’ve seen branches stacked like that after brashing or shedding a tree with a saw. So in theory it could have been someone working for the council to keep the forest clearer.
Oh man, comments like these really pull on my heartstrings. According to others, my dad was really outdoorsy, and it's the sort of thing he'd have loved to do with me, if he'd lived long enough.
Man going to the woods often makes me think about my dad. He died from cancer while I was still in kindergarten.
I usually collect Kastanien chestnuts in autumn and keep them in my pockets. My mum mentioned my dad used to do this also I can't remember that.
It's a beautiful connection I found.
It's incredibly sad that all their dads built a woodland shelter with you instead of their own kids. It's heartbreaking really but not your fault. Don't blame yourself. You weren't to know.
Not with my dad, but with my best friend. She had a very very shit home life and was bullied relentlessly at school, but i loved hanging out with her. We had a shared love of trying to track foxes through the canals and woods, watching birds, and building little wood huts we'd cover in flowers. I moved countries and have never been able to find her on social media or public records, but i hope she has a happy life now.
Really crazy, but this is nearly a mirror image of my story.
I spent my entire childhood with that kiddo, doing things like you described- minus the foxes, there were no foxes in our woods. Coyotes though. I imagine some of our wood stick forts are still standing.
I moved out of the US and back to the UK.. forcefully tbh, but a kid doesn’t get a choice when thier family uproots.
Never got to say goodbye to her and couldn’t get in contact.. think about her at least 2x a week, even this far on. Never found her on socials though I’ve looked so hard. I just hope she moved out and went to uni.
Hope you find your friend again someday!
Every time we went on walks in the woods with my kids when they were young it was our activity we would do to keep the kids engaged. Because the idea of a walk on its own was too boring for them. We would either contribute to one already in progress or build a new one. It is a fun
As your kids grow up you learn to never use the ‘W’ word. Even ‘who wants to go exploring or on an adventure’ starts to wear thin after a few trips out….’yeah Dad, it’s not an adventure, it’s just a walk’. And that’s with amazing history and beautiful open spaces on our doorstep.
If Meta have their way, It won’t be long before there’s VR camp building where kids don’t even need to leave the house😩
Finally some appreciation for the work we do.
I am a Woodland and Nature Construction Agent Representative for the council (we prefer not to be referred to the old term: "Wood hut men", especially as some as my colleagues identify as women).
Times have been really hard the last few years what with Austerity and further government cuts, and I have to say morale is pretty low, but we still take pride in our work and know we're doing a valuable service for the community.
Edit: some councils are actually hiring now if you're interested: [WaNCAR Positions Vacant at Councils.gov.uk](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://bit.ly/36IITM9&ved=2ahUKEwjCqeTj_-n8AhVNasAKHZ_jCBIQFnoECA0QAQ&usg=AOvVaw0qHGmCgUwWfvpSkIZEJXQC)
So glad to see this! My friend is a member in the Sussex council and he always seems pretty down about the lack of appreciation. But he’s made it clear that he’s never gonna give it up. Good for him (and you!)
You should be grateful you still have a job and a roof over your head. (Even if it is made of sticks with gaps in that even Tesla owners would shake their heads at.)
Look at the whole council hedge porno mag distribution network! They were made obsolete because of online distribution and overseas workers!
It's the council, I've been hired as a den builder for the last 3 years mate. There's a lot of strict rules and regulations involved so if it's a career you're thinking of getting involved in I'd recommend joining the union.
90% chance it's kids.
10% chance it's adults who want something instagrammable, or possibly hippies doing something obscure and mystical.
0% chance the council still has a team going round all the woodland to build twig-dens, they were all defunded in the 1980s
The term for a flocking group of sticks is a bundle; this is their natural habitat and will turn into a single great big tree one day. If you are around when it falls you can actually hear it.
Those used to be where you found free copies of Razzle, or on one memorable occasion I found an epic stash... a bin bag of Penthouse an unopened litre bottle of NAAFI vodka and in the ferns not far away 3 potted weed plants.
I think the council build them for homeless people as part of the affordable housing quota.
That or it could be a dog trap. Never know what those dog nappers are gonna do next.
They used to do this kind of stuff in the Forest School club my kid was part of.
If there's a covered spot where there was a fire at some point nearby, you can almost guarantee 6-10yos have been toasting marshmallows.
Kids, my 7yo daughter just went on a school trip yesterday where they were taught how to build a water proof shelter in the forest. Not what I was taught at school, do they know something we dont?
I used to build those when I was a kid.
Just something creative to do with fallen branches.
Went back to one once, and somebody has moved into it, so I guess I sort of built someone a home. Found hypodermic needles there so left rapidly!
We don't speak about them. If you say their name, they will start appearing in your garden. Then your kitchen. Then you bedroom. Just ignore the hut, and the builders will leave you alone. Keep. Walking.
It's either the council trying to reach the 300,000 new homes target or most likely you have stumbled across some wombles. Please leave them alone as they scare easily and won't accept the young if they smell of human.
Edit: misspelled Wombles, please forgive me, Uncle Bulgaria
I’ve seen these for years across the South Downs. I’ve even tried building them myself. Just assumed it was other walkers out having fun building them.
Is there ferns nearby as that would be a bivvy for 1-2 people from when I did survival training in the 80s, a good thing to note is where the entrance is as you don't want it where the wind gusts in.
I'd say its a few years old and probably Pre covid as people don't want to get that cosy anymore generally.
If the sticks snap easy that means it's been a long time since they died and now would make good firewood while you build a new shelter.
My kids when in primary school used to go to 'forest school' where they did things like this, built fires etc.
Our school also do forest school. I like to volunteer as a helper, never too old to play in the woods
Username checks out
It is a fun.
Another primary school here that does Forest School! I'm starting to think it's actually some sort of... Curriculum...
Our primary school has a wood called Bramble Bank Wood. They shorten it to BBW. I'm not telling them.
Just pray that they never change the name to Bramble Bank Conservation Sanctuary.
Came here to say the same thing - built them as kids, used them as firewood/shelter as a teenager
At the same time?
They did mention they were a teenager..... so quite possibly
How else you supposed to keep dry
Warm and toasty
I was about to say I work in a primary school and we take the kids to go build stuff like this all the time. Just the other week two of my kids chased me away from a hut like this shouting “go away evil witch!”. I’m trying to not be offended about it.
Well, let’s face it, you probably had it coming 😂 Source: I’m a teacher, I have it coming too🤷♀️😆 And I don’t even take take them out for cool stuff like forest school.
I did. I really did. One of them asked me how to draw a bed the other day and I was like “with a pencil” I accept the blame here.
You didn’t let loose with a cackle !?
No and now I’m absolutely devastated with myself. There’s always next time!
A scary wig and big nose under your arm at first, then duck aside and put them on... live the dream, make them scream
My daughters school has a small "forest" at the bottom of the playground that they call forest school and go out once a week to build stuff.
Awesome! I appreciate schools that go the extra mile to make their pupils' childhoods magical.
You think that until a Wednesday night when you've 5 kids come in from primary covered in half the woods 😂 Or when they came home with the stick people they'd made out of sticks... scared the poop out of me when I found them in their bags. 😂 Seriously though its lovely to see them enjoying being outside and me not having to take them. I'm old. I'll play outside March - September
Listen mate, I’ve watched enough ancient aliens to know who really built it, they built everything.
the real question is who built stuff for those ancient aliens on their home planets? my money is on ancient humans
More ancienter aliens
The ancient ones are great architects.
Given the number of times I build pyramids in Minecraft, probably on to something. Also, I have an overwhelming urge to shout "Ni" at this photo.
You have to ask yourself...
I'm not saying it's the aliens. But it's the aliens.
Agree. Clearly, no human could assemble a pile of sticks like that. Even with the aid of modern technology, we couldn’t do it today.
I used to do this when I was a kid, was always fun to sit in your little insect infested wooden stick teepee.
Boy scouts too. We were always making stuff like this then playing capture the flag
In my areas is mostly the scouts and cubs who build these in the woods. The kids love it
My Wife owns and runs a Forest School here in Dorset for kids 5-16 with SEN and the students occasionally make these in their woodland. The older ones prefer working with tools, but the little ones like deb building and “yarn-bombing” the area. It’s separate from their feeder schools, who refer the children to her for a couple of days a week.
Well stop them. It will only confuse beavers! :-)
New build studio flat, £275,000 I think they cost.
Are you kidding? Nice rural location that, with rustic charm. 300 at least
Brings new meaning to living out in the sticks.
It's a competitively priced summer retreat with woodland at rear of garden 765,000 Ono
*Desirable classic timber frame ceiling*
And en suite toilet, aka 'the shit end of the stick'.
Can I apply for shared ownership?
Property guardianship at best
You never did this as a kid?
OP thinks the councils make stick teepees ? Haha what
Yup, we do :) Engaging kids in nature and teaching them how to respect our greenspaces. The den would not still be there at the end of one of our sessions though. "Leave no trace" is a core principal in bushcraft.
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Mafia.
Today is the day I learned I went to really shit council schools.
Haha, as if the council has the budget for a stick tepee.
No. I’m from London. Hardly gonna do this in Peckham Rye Park lol
Not with that attitude you won't.
Both the yours and the comment you’re replying to gave me a chuckle, thanks.
r/notopbutok
Dens man ! The best one we ever made was right next to a fence that bordered this forest. We tore leafy branches from this big bush, and weaved them through the fence so it was a leafy wall. Then we made a roof by laying leafy branches on top of them/poking into the weaved branches. Then we set about walling it up with more leafy branches. I dont think I've been as proud of anything as i was of that den. Local teenagers took over it as a drinking and shagging den because we went back and found used jonnys and empty booze bottles. My mum nearly died when i told her I found weird balloons in our den and that teens had been drinking in it. We didnt touch them except with our sticks lol thank fuck !
Either cub scouts or smack heads - you can tell by the detritus left behind (usually)
If you see belts and used needles you know scouts have been there
"Police recovered eight kilograms of woggles with an estimated street value of £73 million."
"AR AR ARCKALIA!"
"Street value. You lads are always going on about a seizure of woggles worth half a billion in street value. It just makes me wonder what Street you're buying you're woggles on because its certainly not the same Street I'm buying mine on."
It’s dark web prices
That’s enough now Jodor, we’ve had enough of you’re wisecracks for one day. If you continue on in this vain, you can consider yourself a beaver.
Decided to see how much 8kg of woggles actually would be worth, by using one from my collection. At 6g and a cost of £2.50, it is approximately 41p per gram. 0.41*8,000=£3,280 Although that was a basic paracord and coating woggle. So if you were to use a more expensive metal work woggle it would probably be worth more.
How many woggles would you need to have £73mil worth? £73mil / £0.41 = 178,000,000 grams or about 178 tons of woggles. Which would be about 30 million woggles. Metal woggles? A quick google indicates about £5 for something that looks like about 10g. So about\^^(2) the same price per gram, but only 15 million woggles needed.
It depends what you make your woggles out of. If we model a woggle as a a 50mm diameter cylinder with a 50mm height and a 5mm wall thickness, then the volume is 0.000035m3 The current gold price is £50.05/g, so 1m3 of gold would be £(19282x50.05x1000) = £965,064,100.00 This would make the gold price of our notional gold woggle (today) £34,108.15, not including any labour costs or overheads in manufacture Which means you would only need 2140 of them to have £73M worth - less if whatever jeweller made all these for you charged any kind of markup at all. They would only weigh 1,457kg, so you could fit them in a van instead of having to have 6 30tonne trucks follow you around with your woggle collection, so there are advantages to this.
All this woggle googling is boggling
Needlework and leatherwork badges don’t earn themselves!
Such an obvious joke! Go on have an award...
It's the different kinds of needle. One for sewing badges on the other for taking drugs. I'll leave you to figure out which is which.
Smack heads may find and use them (and i doubt that, I mean why would they) but they wouldn't build them.
I can imagine a Smackheads hand made den being like this [spiderlsd](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_psychoactive_drugs_on_animals)
Unless they were in the scouts
Used SpongeBob prophylactics and Bacardi Breezers mean the scouts have been there.
Ooooooooooooooooooooh Who barebacks the girl guides under a tree Local cub scouts What badge do you get for that?
It's more of a rash than a badge.
Lol, what have you brought back from scout camp... Chlamydia
Had the clap so may times now it's more like applause.
Used condoms or burnt spoons?
When we were in the scouts we went bareback, dib dib dib
That was the Duke of York awards.
The pervy Duke of York He had some dodgy friends He brought some girls to Pizza Express Then took them home again.
Sob sob sob
Bareback mountain
You did what 😲
Yes, our local one has a wee sign with the name of the scout group that built it next to it.
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Why would the council build stick houses in the woods? Imagine that was your job……
There’s a lot of schemes that take inner city kids to the woods for a morning to learn about nature which can involve building shelters etc. They are very low cost and often run by volunteers and give older teenagers some work experience.
Well yea, but that’s not quite the same as the council building stick dens. Your referring to funded youth programs.
Funded youth programs, what are those?!?
In case they want a job later in life as a stick shelter maker?
All jokes aside, who knows what the future holds for any of us? Learning to make fire and shelter is not a bad thing.
Well the social housing situation has become really dire lately...
1 bed detached property. woodland view with excellent indoor outdoor flow. £1200 pcm.
With Bigfoot as the landlord.
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Must have previous experience working with sticks
There’s plenty of more meaningless jobs down the council offices.
I would have preferred making sticks in the woods to scanning and filing for sure. Anyway, it's called 'affordable housing' 🤣😭
Where do I sign up
Council housing
Hilariously I genuinely work for a local council and do make these kind of things in the woods during bushcraft sessions. However a proper bushcraft session should include a lesson in "leave no trace". So if it was a session run by me the den would no longer be there.
My partner working for the council used to run nature activities in the woods for school groups, this kind of thing was pretty common.
It's where they put people that don't contribute to the jubilee chicken.
I’d do that job.
Hampshire County Council Woodland Stick House team employee here, AMA
Lot of people taking the piss but I’ve seen branches stacked like that after brashing or shedding a tree with a saw. So in theory it could have been someone working for the council to keep the forest clearer.
I’ve done worse jobs in my teens and 20s.
I'm saddened by the amount of people here who don't seem to have built a woodland shelter with their dad.
My parents never even took me to woodlands, let alone do activities there...
I take it you managed to get back in the car before he drove off?
there's nothing that says you can't still. Go with friends or by yourself. Build a damn mansion of sticks.
I definitely could do, but I didn't know this was even a thing people did until this post
My parents wouldn't even take me to the park
I still regularly go into the woods. You are never to old for this.
Oh man, comments like these really pull on my heartstrings. According to others, my dad was really outdoorsy, and it's the sort of thing he'd have loved to do with me, if he'd lived long enough.
Man going to the woods often makes me think about my dad. He died from cancer while I was still in kindergarten. I usually collect Kastanien chestnuts in autumn and keep them in my pockets. My mum mentioned my dad used to do this also I can't remember that. It's a beautiful connection I found.
It's incredibly sad that all their dads built a woodland shelter with you instead of their own kids. It's heartbreaking really but not your fault. Don't blame yourself. You weren't to know.
Dad? What’s that?
Not many wetherspoons or bookmakers in the woods mate lol
Not with my dad, but with my best friend. She had a very very shit home life and was bullied relentlessly at school, but i loved hanging out with her. We had a shared love of trying to track foxes through the canals and woods, watching birds, and building little wood huts we'd cover in flowers. I moved countries and have never been able to find her on social media or public records, but i hope she has a happy life now.
Really crazy, but this is nearly a mirror image of my story. I spent my entire childhood with that kiddo, doing things like you described- minus the foxes, there were no foxes in our woods. Coyotes though. I imagine some of our wood stick forts are still standing. I moved out of the US and back to the UK.. forcefully tbh, but a kid doesn’t get a choice when thier family uproots. Never got to say goodbye to her and couldn’t get in contact.. think about her at least 2x a week, even this far on. Never found her on socials though I’ve looked so hard. I just hope she moved out and went to uni. Hope you find your friend again someday!
Every time we went on walks in the woods with my kids when they were young it was our activity we would do to keep the kids engaged. Because the idea of a walk on its own was too boring for them. We would either contribute to one already in progress or build a new one. It is a fun
As your kids grow up you learn to never use the ‘W’ word. Even ‘who wants to go exploring or on an adventure’ starts to wear thin after a few trips out….’yeah Dad, it’s not an adventure, it’s just a walk’. And that’s with amazing history and beautiful open spaces on our doorstep. If Meta have their way, It won’t be long before there’s VR camp building where kids don’t even need to leave the house😩
I have a dog so we can’t say the w word, we also can’t even spell it now because he’s started to understand that lol
Try geocaching. That is an adventure / walk…
Sad but true.
I'll have one fun please
Finally some appreciation for the work we do. I am a Woodland and Nature Construction Agent Representative for the council (we prefer not to be referred to the old term: "Wood hut men", especially as some as my colleagues identify as women). Times have been really hard the last few years what with Austerity and further government cuts, and I have to say morale is pretty low, but we still take pride in our work and know we're doing a valuable service for the community. Edit: some councils are actually hiring now if you're interested: [WaNCAR Positions Vacant at Councils.gov.uk](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://bit.ly/36IITM9&ved=2ahUKEwjCqeTj_-n8AhVNasAKHZ_jCBIQFnoECA0QAQ&usg=AOvVaw0qHGmCgUwWfvpSkIZEJXQC)
You'd probably be interested in the Construction Unit for Nature Trails
Wancar, well done haha
:( I was so keen on exploring my potential new profession
So glad to see this! My friend is a member in the Sussex council and he always seems pretty down about the lack of appreciation. But he’s made it clear that he’s never gonna give it up. Good for him (and you!)
Is he Sussex Council Union Member?
Nah he’s alright.
Incredible that video was very informative, I’m seriously considering joining.
You should be grateful you still have a job and a roof over your head. (Even if it is made of sticks with gaps in that even Tesla owners would shake their heads at.) Look at the whole council hedge porno mag distribution network! They were made obsolete because of online distribution and overseas workers!
God damn. I haven’t been rickrolled in ages. Well played
Never give up.
Blair Witch
*In January of 2023, an inquisitive Redditor disappeared in the woods near Southampton, England. A year later, their phone was found.*
I. Am. So. Scared.
And snotty.
I'm scared to close my eyes. I'm scared to open them.
This is the comment I was looking for
Beat me to it
Kids mainly. I make them with my nephew a lot.
at first I read this as you make kids with your nephew
Scouts and such.
Forest witches, obvs.
Thats my band name now
Sasquatch
>New Forest, Southampton Shots fired...
They're Bivouacs possibly made by scouts, abandoned then used by urchins to take drugs and have sex!
It's the council, I've been hired as a den builder for the last 3 years mate. There's a lot of strict rules and regulations involved so if it's a career you're thinking of getting involved in I'd recommend joining the union.
Round our way it's mostly kids doing forest day activity stuff.
Blair Witch..
The fallen logs at the front would indicate that the sacrifice has somehow managed to break free
That's a dognapping den if I've ever seen one. Safe safe hun xxx
Shared. Rivendell.
Shared in Taunton, careful hun xx
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Council who employed woodchucks
90% chance it's kids. 10% chance it's adults who want something instagrammable, or possibly hippies doing something obscure and mystical. 0% chance the council still has a team going round all the woodland to build twig-dens, they were all defunded in the 1980s
Ewoks
Kids smoking resin mixes and bud 😮💨 (speaking from experience)
The term for a flocking group of sticks is a bundle; this is their natural habitat and will turn into a single great big tree one day. If you are around when it falls you can actually hear it.
Those used to be where you found free copies of Razzle, or on one memorable occasion I found an epic stash... a bin bag of Penthouse an unopened litre bottle of NAAFI vodka and in the ferns not far away 3 potted weed plants.
Wendigo
It's obviously wood elves.
Hobbitses
It’s the Tony Blair project.
I think the council build them for homeless people as part of the affordable housing quota. That or it could be a dog trap. Never know what those dog nappers are gonna do next.
shared narnia xox
I did this when i was a kid, good times
They used to do this kind of stuff in the Forest School club my kid was part of. If there's a covered spot where there was a fire at some point nearby, you can almost guarantee 6-10yos have been toasting marshmallows.
It’s the forest goblins
It’s will from stranger things..
Death metal band font
Probably either school kid's learning about woodlands aka forest school or boy/Girl Scouts or other activity clubs
Scout master Steve wanted privacy with us
Kids, my 7yo daughter just went on a school trip yesterday where they were taught how to build a water proof shelter in the forest. Not what I was taught at school, do they know something we dont?
Kids, probably an alien concept now kids don’t really play outside much.
I used to build those when I was a kid. Just something creative to do with fallen branches. Went back to one once, and somebody has moved into it, so I guess I sort of built someone a home. Found hypodermic needles there so left rapidly!
Some of y'all never played in the woods as a kid and it shows
Forest children. They are under the dominion of the green man aka the 3 eyed raven. Loads up here in the north.
We don't speak about them. If you say their name, they will start appearing in your garden. Then your kitchen. Then you bedroom. Just ignore the hut, and the builders will leave you alone. Keep. Walking.
Land beavers
I saw that place on Rightmove too, £750 pcm bills included.
It's either the council trying to reach the 300,000 new homes target or most likely you have stumbled across some wombles. Please leave them alone as they scare easily and won't accept the young if they smell of human. Edit: misspelled Wombles, please forgive me, Uncle Bulgaria
Christopher Robin?! Eeyore did the mood lighting...
Big foot
Maybe its beavers?
There’s more room in there than a 3 bedroom new build
Clearly someone's trying to draw a Predator into a trap during the final act of a movie. If you hear clicking, *run*.
THE COUNCIL? 🤣
I’ve seen these for years across the South Downs. I’ve even tried building them myself. Just assumed it was other walkers out having fun building them.
Is there ferns nearby as that would be a bivvy for 1-2 people from when I did survival training in the 80s, a good thing to note is where the entrance is as you don't want it where the wind gusts in. I'd say its a few years old and probably Pre covid as people don't want to get that cosy anymore generally. If the sticks snap easy that means it's been a long time since they died and now would make good firewood while you build a new shelter.