...aka the little step ladder that Clare and I used to hang clothes on, in our bedroom. We installed this at the side of our future home ( more on that place in yesterday's post ) to lead up to the roof

After nine days of inactivity - even the guy of the repair shop in town told me to give up on it and buy a new one - my smartphone started charging again, today. I was so inactive though in the family

This write up follows If you haven't already done so, read that first. It has now been raining almost non stop for 4 days and I am relieved to say that we are nearing the end of the downpour. Only about

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

I am working on our land, on a challenging early Spring day. The beautiful but 'threatening' sound of rolling thunder has been going on in the background for over half an hour now. Luckily, it is only

Another week has passed since my post about experiencing our first snow(fall) on our land. It almost seemed it would snow again. It sure was cloudy, humid, rainy and cold enough

The night after returning from a week and a half stay in @clareartista 's old house in the city, I heard precipitation that didn't sound like rain and felt that it might be snow(ing). I was right. The

Usually I'm quiet on here for a good reason aka turbulence and/or great distraction aka life taking over. Saying that the last week and a half have been challenging is a bit of an understatement but hey,

It has been the most straining and torturous week yet, and even so, we have made huge progress on the simplest, most important things. The hardest part was firstly coming into conflict with our landlords,

When we checked back in on the land, to feed the cats and find out how the covering had held up, yesterday morning, we eventually found out that although it had kept most of the water out, there was enough

Clearing paths this week with @vincentnijman on our land in Molise... was powerful challenging, and the labour brought up a lot around depression – around what needs to be unpacked or expanded or

A handful of days ago, whilst visiting the forest area on the hill above our land, we were warned by the local vigile that there was a wolf roaming the area. More on that in my previous post: First Fungi

The first half an hour or so of our walking and climbing through the hilly forest, we hardly noticed any fungi but - as tends to be the case - once we reached a certain point ( of focus ), more and more

Yesterday morning, a week and a half after moving into our rental house ( to over-Winter ), @clareartista and I decided that it was about time to pack up our tent. Believe it or not but for about 3 months,

What a turnaround! 3 months ago, we acquired our 1.1 hectare plot of (wild) land with a house like building on it that was far from ready to move in(to). Since then, @clareartista and I have been going

Dear Hive Friends, Wow, the autumn arrived so suddenly - from Too Hot To Go Outside At Noon .... to hotwaterbottles, duvets and legwarmers, overnight. We're bracing ourselves for the next bout of

Last week I wrote about @clareartista and I deciding to spend two nights in a local hotel, to briefly escape the chaos and discomfort of our new land. It's now 4 days later and we are feeling a lot better.

halo of kittens, as they warm up in the sunrise Dearest Hive Friends and Homesteaders, This post begins on a beautiful fresh afternoon, as we’re just back from a rather circuitous route to a market in

New beginnings in nature are a wonder: coming back to the land as we are doing, @vincentnijman and I, is full of potent potential and with memories - of my childhood immersion in wild landscape, full of

Dearest Hive Friends and Homesteaders! our beautiful Cornus mas tree - one of them; we found 4 already! It is taking a while to appreciate it, but we have just crossed the threshhold into a new dimension: