Pressure cooking

Father Christmas very kindly gave me a new pressure cooker for Christmas. He must have listened very carefully in the summer when The Neighbour and I were musing about how we might preserve some of the hoped for glut of vegetables and fruit we were tending in our new garden and the question of whether [...]

The Ultimate Roller Coaster Ride –An Abbreviated History of Fossil Fuels

Succinct,hardhitting &very entertaining 5 minute cartoon. I think Richard Heinberg &the Post Carbon Institute are ace.

Permaculture where the problem is the solution

I spent last weekend away on the fourth session of my Full Permaculture Design Course (PDC) in Llandrindod Wells –a 14 day course stretched over 7 months of one weekend per month.

Each time I go I am re-acquainted with a group of twenty or so people already part-way along a journey towards a [...]

A social whirlpool and a day at home

I have met lots of great new people here during the past week or so.

We have landed in a rural area near to a small market town which has a definite ‘alternative’streak to it. There seem to be plenty of interesting folk living here,doing interesting forward thinking things and drawing more interesting [...]

Looking backwards and forwards

Hello from Day 15 of this new year.

I’m so excited to be back in the writing mood as I’m bursting with interesting possibilities for the near and longer term future but have allowed time for thoughtful reflections on time passed.

Many of the blogs I follow concluded with a review of their highlights from [...]