Comments on: Downshifting

By: Personal goals

Personal goals — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:28:13 +0000

[...] we downshifted in July 2006 – actually it turns out that I didn’t really downshift, I simply started again [...]

By: Becoming Domestic » Deciding whether or not to home educate

Becoming Domestic » Deciding whether or not to home educate — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:40:40 +0000

[...] and within a few weeks we had quit our jobs, took the children out of private day nursery and downshifted to a life in the Worcestershire countryside where I became full time stay at home mother and Bealers [...]

By: Bealers.com - » Tis the time for lists

Bealers.com - » Tis the time for lists — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:13:42 +0000

[...] The combined selling of Exponetic, moving from London after 8 years, downshifting and the setting up of Siftware. Everything is going very well, too well if truth be known. I’m getting fed up of 15hr days, 7 days a week and the focus this year will be on profit rather than volume. [...]

By: Becoming Domestic » Why I love FlyLady, her daily household management tips and Christmas planning

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:24:37 +0000

[...] This year as we have downshifted and moved much nearer to our families in Bristol (and because we have kids are at that lovely age of nearly four years old) we have lots of family coming to stay with us. Normally I would be paralysed by fear at the prospect of all that hostessing, shopping/card sending/food prep etc but thanks to FlyLady’s daily pearls of wisdom (such as ‘Stop being a perfectionist’) I’m really really enjoying the run up to Christmas and am so happy that I’m on top of all the various things we do to make it a happy holiday for one and all. [...]

By: Becoming Domestic » Ironing Incentives

Becoming Domestic » Ironing Incentives — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:11:44 +0000

[...] I really don’t like the idea of ironing and since I stopped using the tumble drier when we moved (and downshifted to a simpler way of life) in favour of the outside washing line to conserve energy usage I do get a lot of crinkled clothes forming a large pile in a basket in the corner which grows and grows until I have to spend a really good chunk of time tackling it and getting it down again. [...]

By: Becoming Domestic » Borrowing cookery books from the library

Becoming Domestic » Borrowing cookery books from the library — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:17:31 +0000

[...] Since radically downshifting we are on a long-term aim to reduce the amount of ’stuff’ in our house, to minimise the amount we spend as a family on thngs we don’t really *need* and to home cook family meals twice a day I have become a frequent visitor to our local library in order to borrow cookery books. [...]

By: Becoming Domestic » How to make and maintain a compost heap

Becoming Domestic » How to make and maintain a compost heap — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:27:47 +0000

[...] Since downshifting and moving to the countryside we nowhave a home made compost pile (made from some old wooden pallets as walls and a couple of sections of fencing). The heap is getting nice and big but does have a lot of fruit flies bredding on it. We have a fair few grass clippings and because we are eating so much more fruit and vegetables than we did in our previous life I have investigated how to get the most from the heap as I vaguely remembered that grass clippings were not good for compost heaps and suspected I was perhaps about to end up with a huge heap of stinky slime instead of rich dark crumbly earthy goodness for the garden next year. I had already figured that worms and a bit of soil were probably useful additions but had not actually looked into what I should do make and maintain a really good compost heap in order to get great compost for the plants I’m planning to plant next year. It turns out that chucking bits and bobs onto a pile including masses of grass clippings will eventually rot down into soil as it is the planet’s way of keeping everything as tidy as can be BUT the more effort you put in to making sure your compost heap has the right ingredients and conditions the better compost you will get out of the heap (and it will be quicker too). [...]