I’ve got to admit I was a bit skeptical. I’d been to a couple of the recent working bees at Our Apple Tree and had been a little let down by the turn-out. They reminded me of an anecdote about a group who helped start community gardens. They would hold an initial meeting and if…
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Imagine that!
The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. John F Kennedy So today marked the first day of what seems to have become a very training heavy end to the year.…
Read MoreOn Reflection
The opportunity to publicly talk about what we have been doing has been an interesting challenge. I talk for a living so it’s not the standing up and talking in front of people that concerns me but it did challenge us to think about what have we actually done, achieved and what is the impact.…
Read MoreAnd then there were six (a busy weekend part II)
Our nature strip has been a great success. At times, when the kids are asleep and I’m avoiding doing the housework, I just spend a little while watching passers-by stop and consider what it is exactly that they’re looking at. Some look around as if they are on hidden camera and this is some sort…
Read MoreDude…..Where’s my box? (A busy weekend part I)
We’ve been robbed, that’s right we’ve had a box theft. It’s been sitting in our front yard for a couple of weeks but we finally decided that now was the time to put it on L’s nature strip, and it looked great. We were all ready to fill it and bed it down then and…
Read MoreThe Life Out There
Whilst preparing for our ‘Transition in the Pub’ presentation I’ve been looking through a lot of photos from the last year (and beyond). It’s funny that some photo’s that I previously didn’t think much of or about now stand out for me that much more. I was trying to find photos that acted like a…
Read MoreTreading Lightly to the Pub
It’s been a frantic week at Treading Lightly HQ. The Johnson Strip, our plant to reclaim the nature strips has made a quantum leap. Our nature strip is still looking great and the second box is really starting to fill up nicely with green as you can see. This is obviously making people consider what…
Read MoreThe Human Scale
What is the basic unit that cities are developed for? Is it people? or is it cars? This is one of the central questions posed in a movie that I recently got to go and see called ‘The Human Scale’. The concept is fairly straightforward. The movie goes over how in the 50s and 60s…
Read MoreBack to basics
It’s been a while since I’ve managed to post, it turns out that whilst in general encouraging a sharing culture within our family is good this does not apply to tonsilitis! The ‘Reclaim the Curb’ competition has come to a close announcing that our plan to make our street into a DIY shopping and grazing…
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I initially titled this blog ‘A whole heap of seemingly unrelated observations that hopefully will come together as a coherent blog post’ but that seemed a little long. You see there have been a couple of things swirling around in my head for a while now and I think I may have resolved them through…
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A Life of Treading Lightly 