Leaving London and downshifting to become a full-time parent and rural homemaker
A day late but not too late to write a post to participate in blog action day 2008.
The book I am reading at the moment is yet another on the now familiar and alluring theme of family self-sufficiency. ‘Living the Good Life: Changing the world from your own backyard‘ is Linda Cockburn’s diary of her [...]
Thank you thank you Bealers for doing spending your time improving this blog with a new theme and the latest version of Wordpress. It looks great and I love it.
I do know that we are extraordinarily lucky living where we do and living the way we do. We have three beautiful, healthy little kids, great friends and family etc etc etc but very occasionally, when I’m tired, or have too many things going on at once and feel under it I need a reminder [...]
As someone who used to have a job as a crisis management coordinator for a big global firm. I realised this weekend while talking to my uncle about oil prices and how heavily our island society depends on oil to transport food that my young family is currently woefully ill-equiped to cope with any kind [...]
Hmmm. I’ve just been watching the boldest, chunkiest rat while I did the washing up. He/she/it was waddling around the path in the garden, popped up the apple tree and sat looking at me then waddled back down, had a sniff around the drain and the rubbish bin (no lid and generally has refuse sacks [...]
I added a reading list page for any other would-be domesticated types out there. It covers a broad spectrum of home finance management, saving money, household management, decluttering, being more organised, parenting, cooking and gardening:
http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/recommended-reading-list/
I’ve been back in the office for a couple of weeks now that the children have started school and are there Mon-Fri until 3pm each day.
For the first couple of weeks I had quite a backlog of paperwork and spreadsheets to bring up to date but now am able to do everything I need to [...]
[Update: I decided not to write a note to the teacher after all as really don't want to be a tricky customer]
I’m planning to write a quick note to the teacher/school on Monday as I need to nip a potential problem in the bud but I really don’t want to be known as the troublemaking [...]
My lovely friend Bryony came over yesterday and sympathised with me about the huge number of fruit flies swarming around the kitchen as she had a similar experience last week. The children and I had returned from a long weekend away while Bealers was doing a long mountainous camping trip to find the plate of [...]
Oh dear. More than a few people have moaned at me for not writing & have asked me why I haven’t.
I’m not sure if why I haven’t written can be attributed to some of the things that have happened in the last month or so – I’m pretty sure they’re all contributory factors.
1. A month [...]