Helena Golden

Hi, Derek.

Lovely to talk to you.

Well, I suppose I'm the willow woman because I teach basket making.

So I started basket making, willow basket making as a hobby about 10 years ago.

And it's just a really nice, tactile, rewarding craft.

And over the subsequent years, I ended up turning it into a business.

So I am.

I work with people of all ages and abilities, from primary schools up to active retirement groups, just teaching our heritage craft of basket making.

That's fantastic.

Where are you based?

I'm based in Leitrim Village.

So we're midway between Drumshambo and Carrick-in-Shannon in County Leitrim.

But I travel pretty much all over the country teaching the craft.

So it's my first season to have a nest box with a camera in it.

So I'm very excited that we have action in it on the first season.

I've always had a few nest boxes around our garden and the blue tits have always been nesting in a nest box that I had on the front of our garden shed.

So I suppose coming up to Christmas, I maybe dropped some subtle hints that I had an interest in getting a nest box with a camera.

So I got my nest box at Christmas time.

It's a dual camera.

So there's a camera on the outside, a camera on the inside.