Rose and I have come to spend a few days at my parents house, and my mum and sister Ceri have got their hands on Rose: tiara, pink track-suit, excessive jewellery and high heel shoes - and get this – combed hair. Bit of a contrast to our usual little ragamuffin!
So it’s that time of year again – it’s autumn and it’s TREE TIME! The popularity of the living willow structures are continuing and we’re starting to get the first calls of the season from the schools. We’re also getting interest from fetes, fairs and schools about doing displays. This doesn’t really work with the living [...]
Lisa is really getting stuck into the allotment and sorting out some permanent paths for the place. We have now have about six tonnes of wood chip 200 yards away from allotment – hands off you fellow allotment owners! If anyone has a wheel barrow be warned, there may well be a wood chip moving party [...]
I’m a great lover of maps. I can spend many a happy hour poring over maps, especially local maps, looking for a new, undiscovered corner to discover. So you can imagine my delight when Rose drew her first map (that I’m aware of anyway). It had some islands on it that we lived on and [...]
I throught I’d make the most of the glorious weather and go for a stomp/board in Long Wood today. I ended up at Hob’s Garden and took a look at the new roundhouse that’s been built up there.
Very impressive. It was built under the guiding hand of Tony Wrench of ‘that roundhouse‘ fame. I’ve seen another one he did [...]
I’ve just read on interesting account from Melissa Maples about a not so rosy Goenka vipassana retreat in the wilds of turkey: little and poor food, creepy badly functioning hotel, creepy crowd of people and topped off with a little sleep deprivation. Good to get some balance on my experience although I can sympathise with the [...]
Lots of catching up with all the boring stuff over the last couple of days; fighting my way through the small mountain of admin that having all of these little businesses create. Sometimes I think its good to assign a day to ploughing through it all, but that makes for a very long, frustrating day. Sometimes [...]
It’s now been four months since I completed my Vipassana retreat, so how is it going? Am I keeping up my two hours a day? Has it turned my life around?
Well I definitely feel calmer day to day. It works well with the Non-Violent Communication, in that Vipassana gives me the mental space in which to [...]
After the usual frantic start to the day trying to get everyone and everything together, Rose and I headed up to the cottage to do a change-over. The plan was to get there by 10:30 to leave us a bit of time to hang out (I wonder if she is going to learn to hate these [...]
Well I think Rose has had the busiest and most news worthy day of us all, so I’ll dedicate today’s post to her. She started it off doing a bit of baking with Mum. Rose had bought a fairy cake making kit yesterday when she was down the shops with Lisa and spent the morning [...]