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
You have got to find a way to watch Ted Lasso. Honestly. It is one of the most heart warming things I have watched in a long...| 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
The last blog was about Dr Robin Keen and his continued engagement with life in his nineties. As I wrote about then, I was down to run... Click Some relationships are stronger than time to read whole article| Julie Leoni
cue hatred...| The Last Psychiatrist
I love the On Being Podcast and the episode with Katsi Cook called ‘Women are the first environment’ touched me very deeply. Katsi is a Mohawk midwife,...| 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
Morning, Just a quick email to let you know/remind you that Farmotherlands is launching on 2nd April at The Holroyd Community Theatre, off Station Road, Weston Rhyn...| Julie Leoni
Zen and the art of bricks I don’t remember much of Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance, but once bit that stuck with me is...| 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
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
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