Woodland Management on Sunny Days
The weather has been kind to us. The mornings are frosty and bright gradually giving way to sunshine. We work in the woods or inside, but the lure of the good weather keeps one outside much of he time.I have taken to
Read more…April Fool's Day and a Friday - how inauspicious ! Nonetheless, it was a good day for us.
It was Modgala's first full day here. Very nice to have her with us. In the morning we all went to Oasis. This was our second time to hold our service/puja at O
I'm afraid that this Daily is a bit of a hotch-potch of my current happy and sad feelings.
My regime these days is simple enough. Some mornings we have a service and some we don't. After that we have breakfast - outside if weather permits. Then I wri
This Daily is from Elja
This morning I was miserable and feeling very sorry for myself. I was stuck – no laptop, worried about my operation, unable to arrange things from France, feeling defeated by the bureaucratic system. David came up to see me and
This morning we had another joint service with Oasis, but his time they came here. A very nice event. In the talk I talked about how we are all mirror's of the Light of All the Buddhas.
When we came out of the ceremony hall there was warm sunshine. W
Read more…At breakfast we discussed the issues of teacher and disciple. Adam had memories of previous discussions here on similar topics from a couple of years ago. Elja was pleased to see that there have been some good responses to her article which also appe
Read more…Winter came back briefly today. We managed to get out a bit between rain showers. Adam collected wood. I cut ivy rescuing oak trees. I am gradually working my way around our woods. One ivy I cut was a foot in diameter. I'm sure that the great oak tre
Read more…A day of perfect weather.
Dharma at Oasis
In the morning we went to Oasis and held a serice there. Lovely to connect with our Buddhist friends. I gave a Dharma talk about Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana. hinayana is the simple approach to spiritual
Today I was outdoors most of the day and my major achievement was to weed the strawberry patch. Disentangling strawberry plants from the little creeper that grows among them, twining itself around their stems, is quite a fiddly task. I also sent a la
Read more…Work Camp
Under the grey sky we have been working. Adam has continued with laying concrete slabs to create an area that will eventually be a base for another wooden shed. He got quite a bit done today and we have now run out of concrete slabs so will
Last night we had a beautiful sky. After the sunset the pale blue was banded with swathes of pink. The calm of evening held one like a tender embrace.
This morning we went to market in Sancoins. I am feeling swamped by nostalgia. I’m sure that this is
It has been really hot today. The birds are singing. The roses are blooming. The grass has grown. Having completed one stage of my woodwork project and needing in any case to reorganise the downstairs of the barn before I can work overhead on the oth
Read more…Departure
This morning Jnanamati left Eleusis to travel to UK. We were a bit worried that he might meet with difficulties due to the strike action currently going on in France. I took him to the station for 6am and there was a coach waiting rather th
Read more…The rain has finally stopped. Hurrah! Everywhere is still sodden. I expect that the water will gradually go down now. I swear the grass has grown inches in the last three days. Most of the plants seem happy enough. There are a lot of buds on the rose
Read more…Answers to appear in a few days time...
1. What flowers do we have on our shrine at the moment?
2. Which of the following prickly plants grow at La Ville au Roi (Eleusis):
(a) thistle, (b) blackthorn, (c) wild rose, (d) hawthorne, (e) cactus?
3. Whic
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Dentistry - green not pink
This morning we went to the medical centre. Firstly, I saw the dentist. A filling that I had had put in in England in December came out just before my admission to hospital and there had been no opportunity in the midst of
Breakfast Discussions of Relationships
Breakfast in the community is often one of the most interesting times. This morning was no exception. A long discussion grew up about relationships, especially polyamorous ones, and we talked about the tensions
Read more…Planting a rose we bought at the flower market in Charenton
This white flower is abundant this year. Do you know what it is called?
A tall oak amid a sea of flowers in Eirene's Wood
This is the area in the Aphrodite Field where I cleared thorn bu
Read more…Weather
We are having exceptionally wet weather all of a sudden. It has rained virtually continuously for about 48 hours and the ground is saturated. All holes have filled up and turned into little ponds, the yard is like a paddy field, and we even h
Read more…Today we had to be in town to make appointments with the doctor and dentist. I saw a nice flower shop which I thought was very typically French style, and went in to buy something pretty for our beloved friend Annette – I think her nickname should be
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