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
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
Life after retirement
This man, Robin Keen, is my old head teacher and my old employer. He is 93 or 97 depending on who I listened to and retired at, but my calculations, around 60.
I was down in Kent this week to give a talk on ‘Creating a life you don’t want to retire from’ at my … Read more