Mind your language - Julie Leoni
Words, words, words I’m having some coaching at this weird liminal time where this phase of motherhood is ending. This week my coach used the word ‘strategy’...| Julie Leoni
I work with Neil. Sometimes we walk together and talk. He can be really serious. You should see his Facebook posts about Trump. He is also hilarious,... Click Sunflowers and Gratitude to read whole article| Julie Leoni
Over the summer, I went away to the south to do some work and visit friends. When I got back my soon-to-be-leaving-home son, asked when I was... Click Backpack and freedom to read whole article| Julie Leoni
Permaculture in the pandemic It was the year of the pandemic. Living on the Wales and Shropshire border meant that our experience of that time was schizophrenic. ... Click A new Permaculture Design Course (this is a longer than usual read so grab a cuppa) to read whole article| Julie Leoni
Words, words, words I’m having some coaching at this weird liminal time where this phase of motherhood is ending. This week my coach used the word ‘strategy’...| Julie Leoni
Writing I’m starting to understand my pattern. I seem to have written a book once every 6 years and this year as seen Farmotherlands birthed. Writing feels... Click Fluid and flow to read whole article| Julie Leoni
Just a thought. I don’t know whether you caught the news recently, you know, the usual, ‘all these immigrants coming over here taking our jobs’. Then on... Click The cost of caring to read whole article| Julie Leoni
Do you know you have more cells in your body that are not yours, than are your’s? Mind-blowing isn’t it! We have ‘trillions of cells that are...| Julie Leoni
Thank you all for your lovely messages about the launch…I’m really glad it has created so many connections. Here’s one of the poems from the collection: And...| Julie Leoni
Enough as in ‘that’s enough now stop hitting your brother’ as in ‘you’ve had enough wine/ice-cream/chocolate for today’ as in ‘as much as is required’ (by whom?...| Julie Leoni
Otter I found a dead otter by the side of the road the other day. It looked peaceful. Its front legs were crossed gently as if relaxing....| Julie Leoni
Did you know that rolling pins were first used by the Etruscans in the 9th century BC? I wonder then if rolling was women’s work? Long. Thin....| Julie Leoni
‘It sounds like a cult’ he said. When I told an old school friend that when away with my son, we would be meeting strangers, in bars,...| Julie Leoni
I have been inundated with cooking apples this year. Last year plumbs, this year apples. It has been hard to keep up with stewing, pies, crumbles…I’ve even...| Julie Leoni
I’m gathering words and lines and drops of rain to help me love it more: Fun facts from the Met Office: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/rain/ Petrichor Petrichor is the smell...| Julie Leoni
I love how tuning into the seasons becomes easier as I get older. Red wine and Guinness in the winter, white or rose and larger in the...| Julie Leoni
Remember? The image above was taken 4 years ago, in 2020, when we were in lockdown. In the sunshine yesterday morning, before yet more rain came, I...| Julie Leoni
I make my own yoghurt. I have a yoghurt maker, it saves money and plastic and I know it is additive free. You have to boil milk...| Julie Leoni
In 2012 (gulp!) I wrote a blog about Soul Family: the people who really get you, see you, know you, accept you, challenge you and like you...| Julie Leoni
