The astrologer, Pam Gregory, said last December that the pace of 2025 would be fast and that by June time would feel like it was flying along. Here we are in late July already and I must agree with her; time is flying by very fast indeed. July started with Groundswell, the agricultural show based […]
A storm blew up nearby this week, although not a meteorological one. Sucked into its wake, I felt angry, resentful and indignant at being affected by chaos that wasn’t my making. Consciously or unconsciously some people choose to live within choppy waters; perhaps it is what they have always known and riding the ups and […]
Midsummer, or the summer solstice, is a good time to honour; the long days, when energy of all life seems to be at its peak. Celebrated for centuries, this is a festival of significance for many but has become less observed by the majority of us in more recent times. I decided this year […]
I missed a week of writing for the first time since I started this blog in January. Admittedly, 6 months isn’t that long to be doing this, not compared to some, but as much as I tried to compile something last week, I couldn’t find anything much to say. Last weekend we were part […]
A little over a year ago, I was on a course called Primal Gathering; about connecting people to the land and creating community. I learned a lot and enjoyed meeting like-minded souls all developing skills to better understand themselves and their environment. My biggest revelation was in one of the first workshops when we were […]
The change in weather this week has brought about a noticeable change in me. I hadn’t realised quite how tense I had felt from the incessant dry spell we have had. The crops, our first ever, now stand a chance of reaching maturity and thus, harvest. The grass should now be able to grow enough […]
