Boarding!!!
Just received my latest toy through the post: a mountain board. I’ve done a lot of snow boarding in the past and had my snow-board optimistically hung up in the living room for a while, ready at a moment’s notice. […]
Category: Family Diary
Guilt free Idleness
I’ve been making a big effort to try and reduce the amount of time I spend working, and increase the amount of time I spend idling – “Don’t do anything that isn’t play”! I’ve been doggedly studying the works of Tom […]
Home Education
Imagine if when you were a kid, one day your mum had said to you “Jimmy, you don’t have to go to school any more if you don’t want to. Apart from helping us out occasionally you can pretty much […]
Nonviolent Communiation Course
The big thing that I’m excited about at the moment is Non-Violent Communication. The basic idea is that to resolve conflicts and differences of opinion you express your needs and the feelings that are associated with those needs, and empathise […]
Ysgol Pontrhydfendigaid Bug Hotel
This is a bug hotel Lisa and I (Living Willow Wales) had a lot of fun building back on a glorious day in June this year at Ysgol Pontrhydfendigaid. There are more photos here. And you can also download instructions for making […]
10 Day Vipassana Meditation Retreat
I finally did it. I went to see what having nothing for company for ten days – not even my own thoughts – was going to do to me . And it was pretty amazing! I’d definitely recommend it. It […]
Garlic Graves
Summer is coming on afoot now and it looks like we’re in for another warm spring – hopefully not the wet summer’s we’ve been having the last couple of years. So what have we been up to – agriculturally? Garlic […]
Ysgol Llanwenog Willow Play Area and “Living Classroom”
We had a fantastic turn out of parents and children on the Saturday we spent creating this structure; the head teacher had done a great job of rallying support for the day. It felt like a real summer party atmosphere […]
Ysgol Cilcennin Willow Play Area and “Living Classroom”
The caption reads “Some members of Ysgol Cilcennin in their new “Willow Dome”. The children helped build the dome, and once fitted with curved benches will serve as play area and fair-weather classroom”. One of our structures, that we built […]
Willow harvest, garlic tops and hedge laying
Just rediscovered this blog I was so keen about last year. Events of the moment: first shoots of music garlic popping up; 40m of very sexy hedge laying completed which my dad very helpfully came and lent a hand with […]
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