I am really excited about having moved my blog to a new server courtesy of a local business – my own company, in fact – Osprey Hosting. My blog posts have always been written using renewable energy because that’s the energy I have – we use a home made wind turbine and a photovoltaic array…
I subscribe to the mailing list from the FIndhorn community because sometimes what I receive is simply lovely, as it is today – Be very, very simple, very un-complex, very natural, like very small happy children, undisturbed by what happened yesterday or what may happen tomorrow, but living and enjoying the ever present Now to the very…
I spend today working to organise a workshop space in a building in a local town where we are going to start teaching people to build their own wind turbines. We set up workbenches and swept and cleaned in preparation for the workshops which will start on Thursday next. We are part way through building…
Is this really 2008? you wouldn’t think so if you read this sad and horrifying article about the current and past treatment of Aboriginal people by the police and prison authorities in Queensland Australia. Perhaps the clue is in the name “queens”land, it is not unusual for ill-treatment and injustice to follow the colonial rule,…
Our house project is coming along nicely. It is exciting to be in the process of creating our new home after years of dreaming about it. We are self-building and starting planning to do this some years ago when we got the land that we are living on. I was surprised when I saw how…
Although the weather has been extremely cold for the past two weeks no snow had fallen on our hill. We had freezing easterly winds with both day and night time temperatures below zero Celsius. We have been lucky with above average sunshine everyday and beautiful clear starry nights. The east of the country has been blanketed in snow for…
