Earth care, people care, fair share – and why being needy can be creative
Permaculture ethics
These are the principles of Permaculture that we covered on the first morning of our first day of our first ever integrated Permaculture Design Course (IPDC) at Treflach Farm.
Ceri, Steve and I have known each other for years. We know and understand each other’s work to some extent but have never collaborated … Read more
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
Certainty
I have a tendency, a desiring for, a preference for – certainty.
My preference is to know what time you will be home, to know if I have work next year, to know that this relationship is going to last. Not knowing is uncomfortable. If I knew what time you were getting home, or going … 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
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