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"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2015."

Joseph: with the present he chose for his 5th birthday.

Q & A

A year ago I answered some questions for the blog momfilter about our life here in France.  The article was recently published and can be read here .

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"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2015."

Joseph: hunting for mushrooms and chestnuts.

Attic conversion

The first finished room in our attic conversion - a bedroom for us.  So much space to fill.  I was promised I'd see the stars from the velux window, this morning I actually did.

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 "A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2015."

Anya: our newly renovated bedroom is at the top of the house where it's very peaceful; she spent ages alone up there this morning undisturbed.

Raphaël: the fact he has a new library to discover is one of his favourite things about starting secondary school. One day this week I had to remove 2.5kgs of library books from his schoolbag. 
Joseph: 5 m&m's, a bottle of water and his sword; the leader of the forest.

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 "A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2015."

Joseph: sweatpants, Lego and a bedhead.

 "Skills make people more human, and also more happy. Knowing how to do things for yourself is vitally empowering, especially at this point in history, when we have lost so much of what we used to know. A community full of folks who know how to grow food, make bread, keep bees, mend things, build things, a community that understands the importance of mutual support, of helping each other, of pooling resources, of sharing harvests…. who doesn’t want to live in a community like that? I sure do. And that’s permaculture for you. Thinking of the whole, and acting in a way that makes things better."
a holistic perspective