We all need the same things
Wasps have a bad rep in our house. I think it might have started when the boys were playing with a friend’s sons, in her garden and one of them poked a wasps nest with a stick. It didn’t end well. The wasps won.
The wasps didn’t help themselves when we went out to celebrate … Read more
Sunflowers and Gratitude
I work with Neil.
Sometimes we walk together and talk. He can be really serious. You should see his Facebook posts about Trump.
He is also hilarious, witty, creative and sharp. Hence the walks.
It is good to work with people who make you laugh and I am lucky that I work with funny people, … Read more
Backpack and freedom
Over the summer, I went away to the south to do some work and visit friends. When I got back my soon-to-be-leaving-home son, asked when I was going away again as he had liked having the house to himself.
Kind of hurt, but also kind of getting it, I booked a foot-passenger ticket on a … 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
Fluid and flow
Writing
I’m starting to understand my pattern. I seem to have written a book once every 6 years and this year as seen Farmotherlands birthed. Writing feels like exhaling: lots of previous learning and experiencing and remembering; sending it out into the world. Now the book is born, I’m inhaling again, reading and listening to … Read more