Our little friends are nearly ready for flying lessons.
The roses are blooming
Strawberries are sleeping
Tomatoes are ripening
And pumpkins are on the way
Lama Wangmo, Cedric and their daughter came to visit us at Eleusis. It was nice to show them round and then all to meet for a sumptuous dinner. A good deal of work has been done since Cedric's last visit and this was Lama Wangmo's first time to see a
Read more…This morning we went to Oasis. Normally, on Sundays, we have a service here at La Ville au Roi (Eleusis) and sometimes people from Oasis come here, but today we went there as they were having a special day. Lama Wangmo gave a Dharma talk in the hall.
Read more…Another very hot day. I have been working all day on my book manuscript. As much as possible I have been sitting outside in the shade of the walnut tree. Later in the day I move to the shade of the maple, as the sun moves round. Tara the kitten sleep
Read more…Adam and I spent much of today mowing half of the Aphrodite Field. It is a beautiful spot and something of a suntrap. The weather recently has been hot so the usually lush grass has all turned yellow. There is a perennial problem in this field of inv
Read more…I have spent some quiet time here since I returned. I have been walking around with crutches, and these last days most of the time with one crutch. I also spent some time with family and friends. I slept a lot and to pass the time I knit a scarf. The
Read more…I'm busy preparing for my bike ride to Santiago de Compestela.
All kind of things, from gear to route booklets.
I decided to start with the St. Jacobs Route from Netherlands to Orléans, then go to the Euro Velo 6 (along the Loire) to La Ville au Roi
Today, Elja went to Clermont ferrand to collect her foster daughter. I drove her to the station in our neighbouring small city of Moulins and spent the day there until they returned.
When we woke up this morning we were a community of seven, but by coffee time there were just Adam and I left. Elja, Naomi and two guests left for Netherlands, and another en route for Hawaii. It is quite a contrast and it feels a little strange havi
Read more…The month is nearly over. Time flies. Walking in the woods today I was conscious of the first fallen leaves. Autumn is coming. Everywhere blackberries are ripening. Today we harvested our first pumpkin, a big yellow one. The tomatoes are ripening too
Read more…This morning Annette came to our Sunday service and afterwards helped us with our phone connection problem with some success - many thanks!! We now have a working phone connection again. Then, later, continuing my spring clean, moving a heap of thing
Read more…There is now no longer room for all three chicks in the nest so one has crossed over to the next beam.
leaving two in the nest. The parents keep coming and feeding them all.
including the one on the nail. They are all practising stretching their wi
Read more…On Wednesday we often go to market in Sancoins, the nearest market town. This week I stayed home for the morning and most of the group went to town. While there they picked up things for a picnic and in the afternoon we all went to St Bonnet, a pictu
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Phase five...
Still needs a ceiling, but we are getting there.
This morning we went to Oasis and it was a very nice gathering with four people from Oasis and four from Eleusis and, between us, French, British, Russian, Dutch and Hawaiian. As usual we had a service and then sat outside drinking coffee, chatting a
Read more…It has been three weeks since we got our keys to our new place. We were really fortunate to have my sister Linda and her husband come over to help us with the move. And we were even more fortunate to have my friend take Selena for one week which mean
Read more…Working
Yesterday we collected Jan from the train so there are noe four of us here and already it feels like a well integrated community as though she had been here for months. We have all been out working today, weeding the strawberry patch, shreddi
Read more…Today Adam and I were once again working in the Aphrodite Field clearing thorn bushes while the three women were all working together in the kitchen making chutneys. Thus we had an old fashioned gender role system in action. When one lives in a place
Read more…Indoors
I always like it when I come across and interesting new word. I was reading about Aristotle and the author used this word ‘zetetic’. I mentioned it to Elja and she looked it up in her on-line dictionary and got a message to the effect of ‘you
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