Jane and Martha visted us! (as the weather was too bad for them to get back to their island)
Oh the joy of seeing a bezzy mate twice in one week. Jane, Juan and Martha are the only residents of Skomer island off the coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales. Jane has spent four days in London while Juan took Martha to see his parents but now they can’t back to their home while the wind is so strong as the boat would be too dangerous to sail. They came to visit us for the afternoon yesterday.
What joy to see Martha toddling around and making conversation (with blessed little one-word sentences). We shall have to stop calling her Baby Martha soon… Eden and Martha played really nicely together and us grown up ladies had chance to chat, eat flapjacks and sit-down.
Thanks so much for coming over to see us and thanks also for the wonderful pile of books.
November 20th, 2006 at 8:03 am
Hi Cathy,
Libby just put me onto your blog and I love it! So nice to catch up on all that you’ve been doing in the past year or so, and to see a few pics of your beautiful twins.
Sounds like you’ve made a major massive life change… it must feel amazing, and pretty scary at times too. But good for you for doing it, I think the ability to stay sane and happy living in the rat race must be rare, it’s not what we’ve evolved to do so far is it? I’m sure your kids will have so many more happy memories from their country life.
I’ve married a total hippy greenie environmental campaigner, so I can see us moving to somewhere more peaceful and countrysidey as soon as we are able. In fact it’s kind of a coincidence that I found out about your blog this week when Tom and I have just spent the weekend trying to plan our lives and what kind of environment we want to end up in. At the moment we live in a tiny flat, which is nice and handy for the surf, and half way between the two towns that we work in, but it is noisy, there’s no sense of community and, as with most new world cities, you have to get in your car to do anything. NE New South Wales is full of cute little rural villages where you could grow avos and bananas and have chickens and walk to the shops, which would be lovely. So hopefully we’ll end up there one day. But it’s really inspiring to see career girls like you and Jane making that big change and being so happy away from the rat race.
Also good to see that things like recycling and worm farms are starting to catch on a lot more in england. Last time I lived there, tom and I had a worm farm on the window sill of our fourth floor flat and people thought we were total freaks!! Worms are so fab.
Environmental things really seem to have been thrown into the media spotlight here recently, which is a big relief. Last night I was doing a community meeting about bushfires/ecology and heaps of people turned up on a sunday afternoon, which would have never happened a few months back. I think they’re all starting to realise that with global warming amping up, living in a high fire hazard area probably wasn’t the best plan..
Anyway, I’ve waffled on long enough, should do some work really. Was lovely to get all your news though. One of these days i must get my act together and get a computer and internet at home so i can get into all this crazy new technology too.
seeya
Lizxx