This is your day to stoke your eternal flames and make willfull gestures of love and lust in the general direction of someone else. Or you can masturbate for peace (for full details read "365 Ways to Change the World" you'll find it in there). This book actually lives in our toilet area so if you visit then be sure to briefly browse at your leisure.
It has been quite cold here to the tune of the occasional minus 10ish in recent weeks proving that winter is still a force to be reckoned with and commands frosty respect. I recently partook of an excursion which involved a team of us serving cob oven pizzas at a little festival which was great. I wore seven layers as it snowed that morning and was so fat I needed assistance to get my coat off when I got in the mini bus. The dough kept resisting rolling due to the cold and springing back but around 150 pizzas later we were there.
My deck boots continue to slip in the mud and provide reasonably inadequate protection against the cold. That'll learn me for buying....deck boots.....Yes they are indeed designed for the high seas, perhaps my lack of sea legs and unquenchable misguided romanticism with anything nautical clouded my judgement somewhat. They are fleece lined (now flattened) and shorter so technically comfier but only seem to come into their own when on.....wet tiles.....oh that pesky and predominant terrain that I stride over perhaps never in a day. Brilliant! They also perform badly on wet wood which is perplexing unless modern ship decks are made of fomica or cheese then they are perfect. I have stuffed them with marsh grass and cardboard cut out insoles carefully constructed from my contact lens delivery packet for added insulation. Let's see if this helps at all.
The animals have been well, however we have had one lame sheep and a cat with a sore paw. I managed to find an aloe leaf from the new mediterranean zone of the polytunnel and carry said cat into my cabin for slapdash homeopathic treatment. With assistance I got it on her paw and then discouraged her from licking it off. Being a cat she humoured us for a bit and then did it anyway and after another grab and swab session the next day it appears she is doing well. In other breaking animal news the pair of Canada geese that visit in the winter are back on the lake and I have identified an unkown hedgerow bird. Neil our resident bird expert suspects it's a female chaffinch. I believe it is a rare form of south African warbler blown wildly off course. Or something. It may well be a female chaffinch.
Of course there are many other exciting things going on. I am currently writing my own job description, taking part on a four day intensive facilitation skills course, gearing up for the first school group and preparing for a week long self development programme. My brain is gradually limbering up to something just beyond steam powered, notching in somewhere between second and third gear. There is only more progress to be made. It's not always a straight road here and burn out can be an issue but I'm doing my waffling, warbling best to keep exploring and not take it all too seriously and have fun and....at the moment......I have a tin stashed of my mum's gluten free cake so the world's treating me well. Hasta luego lovers of the night. Keep those airwaves clear with eucalyptus oil.
It has been quite cold here to the tune of the occasional minus 10ish in recent weeks proving that winter is still a force to be reckoned with and commands frosty respect. I recently partook of an excursion which involved a team of us serving cob oven pizzas at a little festival which was great. I wore seven layers as it snowed that morning and was so fat I needed assistance to get my coat off when I got in the mini bus. The dough kept resisting rolling due to the cold and springing back but around 150 pizzas later we were there.
My deck boots continue to slip in the mud and provide reasonably inadequate protection against the cold. That'll learn me for buying....deck boots.....Yes they are indeed designed for the high seas, perhaps my lack of sea legs and unquenchable misguided romanticism with anything nautical clouded my judgement somewhat. They are fleece lined (now flattened) and shorter so technically comfier but only seem to come into their own when on.....wet tiles.....oh that pesky and predominant terrain that I stride over perhaps never in a day. Brilliant! They also perform badly on wet wood which is perplexing unless modern ship decks are made of fomica or cheese then they are perfect. I have stuffed them with marsh grass and cardboard cut out insoles carefully constructed from my contact lens delivery packet for added insulation. Let's see if this helps at all.
The animals have been well, however we have had one lame sheep and a cat with a sore paw. I managed to find an aloe leaf from the new mediterranean zone of the polytunnel and carry said cat into my cabin for slapdash homeopathic treatment. With assistance I got it on her paw and then discouraged her from licking it off. Being a cat she humoured us for a bit and then did it anyway and after another grab and swab session the next day it appears she is doing well. In other breaking animal news the pair of Canada geese that visit in the winter are back on the lake and I have identified an unkown hedgerow bird. Neil our resident bird expert suspects it's a female chaffinch. I believe it is a rare form of south African warbler blown wildly off course. Or something. It may well be a female chaffinch.
Of course there are many other exciting things going on. I am currently writing my own job description, taking part on a four day intensive facilitation skills course, gearing up for the first school group and preparing for a week long self development programme. My brain is gradually limbering up to something just beyond steam powered, notching in somewhere between second and third gear. There is only more progress to be made. It's not always a straight road here and burn out can be an issue but I'm doing my waffling, warbling best to keep exploring and not take it all too seriously and have fun and....at the moment......I have a tin stashed of my mum's gluten free cake so the world's treating me well. Hasta luego lovers of the night. Keep those airwaves clear with eucalyptus oil.
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