stuck on the road without petrol, yesterday I’m having a small adventure on my own for some days: yesterday I made a very water-challenged trip in the car alone, back to Guardia Sanframondi. In part to

A fierce wind has been tearing through our land - and our house! - for a few days, and we have been awake a lot. We've been wrestling with mud, perpetual dampness, low resources and worries about the longterm

The myriad friends, family, community and even strangers who have asked me about real Freedom, have rarely liked the discussion that ensued... I've usually tried to speak to my own Freedom, Sovereignty,

a cabbage stump pyramid - potentially propogating... We just got through a(nother) tough few days, and I'd be worried about dwelling on the drama and milking attention from the audience, if we hadn't risen

This week is very, very wet... A delight of course, philosophically and in terms of the flourishment of our land: we are seeing the water well fill, the green leafy plants proliferate, the soil become

This bag project has been wrestled with for around a month now - even if I felt originally that it should be a quick one..... 😁😇🤨 I left the lovely main strap - possibly the bag's best feature! - back

wild narcissi from our land Today was a wonderfully enriching day, largely due to our stepping out freely and acting spontaneously. And because of connecting with multiple folks - in real life and online

My dear Hive Friends - and those interested in a deep-dive around these most turbulent times of Revelation, Here is The Art Of Life podcast Listen to this episode on Fountain Listen to this episode on

So Vincent and I have been talking today in particular, around what the state of our human situation is (or might be). This podcast we're both listening to, is a powerful transmission that is informing

Dear Homesteading and Hive Friends! This is an exciting and upwelling week: I've finally managed to identify a few plants, one of which I've been asking around, about.... imaged above and below this paragraph:

Dear Needlework and Hive Friends! Finally, here are some snaps of this latest 'sweatercoat' project! It is mostly-complete, as garments that I make for myself often take a lot longer to get the very final

Homesteading and Hive Friends! We have been back in Guardia Sanframondi, showing our magnificent Arthouse to an interested party, who came from Amsterdam to view it - and to get a taste of the town...

First things first: my 'sweatercoat' is finished! If @vincentnijman and I get the chance, we'll do a nice photoshoot in Guardia - we're just prepping to head there now, to show the Arthouse to a Dutch

We've been excitedly getting to know our land in Molise, Italy, by mostly observing, whilst we settle into our first year-cycle here. One of the areas we (@vincentnijman and I) are most enthusiastic about

Today was - as is quite usual now - a range of the extreme and the banal... From a glorious breakfast on our 'terazzo' to chatting with a very lovely woman from Amsterdam who is coming to view our Arthouse

see below for the story behind this photo A funny thing happened this morning,: as I pulled put my epic sweatercoat project in a bar in a nearby city to our land - looking very much forward to finishing

Today was a spontaneous full working day on our land: I began with selecting an appropriately-girthed oak as a first of 6 pillars for our mezzanine, then we progressed to pruning the olives and clearing

Dearest Hive Homesteading & Natural Law friends! Here is the latest episode of The Art Of Life podcast: an hour of deep-dive into the early days of this glorious Real Life adventure in returning to

the skirt of this coat, beginning to take shape Not quite the classic ‘lingerie and a fur coat’ – a phenomenon that is quite fun and sensuous, but this week I am very proud to have made good progress on

My first Needlework Monday post in a while!! Oh, I have missed very much the sewing, the camaradery, the excitement of switching my internet on in the morning to find the treasures that others are working