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
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
It takes a community to write a book
(This first appeared as a guest blog for Booka Bookshop, Oswestry).
I grew up with the image of the lonely artist; Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, James Joyce sitting in the lonely garret writing in splendid isolation. I accepted that Wordsworth really did wander lonely as a cloud and that Yeats wrote about things falling … Read more
Why VE day makes me feel uncomfortable
Hmmmm. VE day makes me feel awkward
8th May 1945
I can’t imagine how it must have felt on 8th May 1945 for all that atrocity to end. Or start to end. My dad remember the troops rolling through the city and the smell of fresh bread. I can’t imagine.
I understand the need to … Read more
Friends
We are nearly at the end of our third round of watching Friends.
Yes, all the series, all the episodes, nearly three times.
The first time was about 4 years ago, then we watched again during the pandemic, and then we started again as my eldest started to move away from home. It’s what … Read more