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Snow Drops
What a beautiful find this morning in the woods…
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Easter 2016
The year is slowly moving through the seasons, it’s nearly Easter and time to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916. What are you planning on doing? I’m sure there will be events all around the country allowing everyone to get involved no matter where we live. We’ve had some wonderful weather in…
Grief, My First Year On This Remarkable Journey
Loosing a parent hurts and grieving is hard work, I know this because my Dad died about ten years ago. Loosing my mother recently has been more impactful than I could have imagined, it is not a strain to say that it has been a life-changing event for me. My “normal” has gone and won’t…
Budgeting manure
I spent yesterday creating a bank in which to plant a hedge (whitethorn) to fill a gap that used to be a gateway and is no longer used. I was using a large pile of cow dung and straw that a neighbour kindly delivered to us last year when he was cleaning out a cowshed…
Whitethorn Flowers
Note: not all of my images made it through the import process, some were lost in a photo sharing program I used to use. This spring there were really beautiful whitethorn (hawthorn) flowers to be seen across the countryside. Our own whitethorns were not as spectacular as last year and I have been told that often…
We Are The Ones
The excerpt below is taken from the website of the relocalization organisation, I have neither added nor changed it… It is beautiful and so very clear… http://relocalize.net/about/relocalization Community Works A Hopi Elder Speaks “You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you must go back and tell the people that…
Haiti’s New Earthquake: USAID Delivers Monsanto’s Poison Pills
I was horrified to read this report, on the Organic Consumers website, about Monsanto being involved in Haiti. Anyone who is a regular visitor to this blog knows that there is no love lost between me and Monsanto. I have long had a strong disrespect for this company and their bullying tactics to further their aims in…