I knew it was coming, but that didn’t change the fact that I wasn’t really ready for it. It all seemed so innocent when the kids brought home chicks from the kindergarten. We played with them for a little while but have some friends who lost some chickens to foxes so made the offer to…
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Perspective Shifting
I’m pretty keen on staying abreast of news but I’ve got to admit that I am stopping in order to maintain my owns sanity. It seems every time I read something I find myself learning more about our government’s seeming ideological quest to rip, chop, mine, sell and basically just dismantle every environmentally positive action…
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 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 MoreThe Johnson Strip (part 2)
We decided we needed to make a start. We would like to show people, or at least demonstrate how a boring strip of grass could become an engaging space. Problem one. Grass. We thought over a couple of options. Poison seemed clearly against the whole ethos of our plan and covering it in plastic or…
Read MoreThe Nanna-Technology of food waste
Rubbish seems to have become a bit of a fixation for us lately. We were pretty rapt to get our family of four’s rubbish down to a standard supermarket bag a week but it has prompted us to think about what we used to throw out. It turns out a lot of it is food…
Read MoreGetting Us Together
It’s been a busy week already and it’s only Tuesday. One of the challenges that we face is that it is really easy to come across like you believe that you’re the only one doing anything to change the way we live. This is not only arrogant but it’s simply not true, there are loads…
Read MoreSo What’s it All About ?
Ever get the feeling we’re missing something? Ever wondered why we hear about the fluctuations of the FTSE, the Yen and Tapis crude a dozen times a day but don’t know the names of our next door neighbours? Ever stopped to think where that tomato actually comes from or when that apple was actually picked?…
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A Life of Treading Lightly 