Fed up with Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers?  The SWOG newsletter has none of them, but we do wish all our members a very merry Christmas. Escape the madness and read about

• Dan Gould, arborist and recent convert to horse-logging
• Living with a log-fuelled biomass heating system
• Book reviews – Oliver Rackham’s The Ash Tree and others
• News of a SWOG meeting in Yorkshire in 2015