A stitch in time saves nine.
Waste not, want not.
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
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
Today, I had the luxury of getting outside early. Though ten minutes into my day I was already sweating as I carted buckets of sand up the slope to where I am starting the very top swale. It is hard work, but I have a Little Fella with me - more for conversation and entertainment … Continue reading The Wall, The Soil & The Beans
I was preparing sauerkraut late at night in the kitchen. I had some of the nice outer leaves of green, crispy cabbages from the Farmer's Market and a few other bits and pieces that I really thought would do better inside me than the compost bucket. I chopped them up roughly and put them into … Continue reading Petit Paradis – Soup du jour – Cream of Vegetable
As morning emerges, magpies carol. Softly. Carried over stillness. In the earth worms move restlessly. Slowing. The winter approaches. These things unseen, sensed from within, accepted. With gratitude. With reverence.
Petit Paradis 