The days are blurring together. But this is the kind of stuff I've been up to. Friday morning was the beach walk with the family. It was refreshing, relaxing and resulted in a catch of one dead seagull, two dead shearwater and a dried out blowfish. More on that here. Saturday I got stuck … Continue reading Home Shopping
Yesterday I planted out our first trees. There was no pomp and ceremony. Not loudly anyway. I carted up several loads of sandy soil and dumped them on the growing swale at the top of the slope. I filled up several more and left them by the swale. I gathered the soaked cardboard, the composted … Continue reading The First Trees are Planted
As told in a previous post, we are now home schooling our boys. So when I'm tasked to teach about distance and measurement I take the opportunity to make it real. I have been designing and building our chicken yard recently and in the eleventh hour I made an alteration to the design as you … Continue reading A Matter of Distance & Why it Matters
Gran - despite her robust diet of packaged meals, meat pies, toast & jam, dry biscuits and Promite, fizzy drinks, milk chocolates and prescription medicine - still has a fairly tenuous grip on life. Especially after her near dead experience last November. Grans health (and a society gradually contracting as a form of risk management … Continue reading Lessons from Our First Week of Home Schooling
It's 4:30 am and I am awake. Rested, but awake. Gran is mumbling to herself in her darkened room. She watched television until late last night. Why else would you mumble in your sleep? Have you seen what's on TV these days? When I get up after my morning mediation and enter into the passage … Continue reading Petit Paradis – Soup de jour – Spicy Pumpkin Soup
Petit Paradis 