Positive, hopeful, full of love – Ted Lasso
You have got to find a way to watch Ted Lasso. Honestly. It is one of the most heart warming things I have watched in a long time.
It has won Emmy’s and Rotten Tomatoes likes it. But that’s not why you should watch it, you should watch it because it is so full … Read more
A new Permaculture Design Course (this is a longer than usual read so grab a cuppa)
Permaculture in the pandemic
It was the year of the pandemic. Living on the Wales and Shropshire border meant that our experience of that time was schizophrenic. When England was not wearing masks, Wales was. When England was free to travel, Wales was in lockdown. One village had the pubs in England opened while the … Read more
Mind your language
Words, words, words
I’m having some coaching at this weird liminal time where this phase of motherhood is ending.
This week my coach used the word ‘strategy’ and I had a ‘yuk’ reaction to it which he questioned. Then, the word ‘target’ came up and I yukked again.
So we got curious and for my … Read more
Women are the first environment – Katsi Cook
I love the On Being Podcast and the episode with Katsi Cook called ‘Women are the first environment’ touched me very deeply.
Katsi is a Mohawk midwife, mother and grandmother and I loved how she described women as the first environment! So obvious and true.
We know that what the mother eats and drinks crosses … Read more
The cost of caring
Just a thought.
I don’t know whether you caught the news recently, you know, the usual, ‘all these immigrants coming over here taking our jobs’.
Then on the same news slot, managers of care homes running at under capacity because they don’t have the staff.
Because guess what, care is paid less that working in … Read more