Positive, hopeful, full of love - Ted Lasso - 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
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
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
Mind your language | 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
Sunflowers and Gratitude | 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
This man, Robin Keen, is my old head teacher and my old employer. He is 93 or 97 depending on who I listened to and retired at,...| Julie Leoni
Women are the first environment – Katsi Cook | 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
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
I may be turning feral as routines and time seems to fall away, I find myself back in the nature in which my childhood self was raised| 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
An Interview about the poem ‘Definition’ taken from Farmotherlands | Julie Leoni
Fluid and flow | Julie Leoni
Women are the first environment – Katsi Cook | Julie Leoni
Farmotherlands (Hedgehog Press) is Julie’s debut poetry collection which has already won a number of awards: Winner of The Bournemouth Poetry Prize 2024, finalist in the London Independent Story and Poetry Prize, finalist in The Cinnamon Press Best New Voices of 2024 pamphlet and 2024 Best Pamphlet competitions, Shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize and the Mslexia Poetry Prize and longlisted for the Canterbury Poetry Prize).| 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
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
Join me for an evening of poetry, community, farming, nature and music. Click here to find out more and book or pop into Booka Bookshop Oswestry Details...| 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
An Interview about the poem ‘Definition’ taken from Farmotherlands | Julie Leoni
We are not alone | 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
Coaching and training for individuals, groups and organisations. Serving the areas of Oswestry and Shropshire. Online, phone or face to face.| Julie Leoni
Fluid and flow | 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
