#livingingift

This week has us riding in increasingly high waves of great gifts, just when we felt like the change of season might get the better of us (again!) this year! Once we committed to fetching our stove and

We had a wonderful long chat in the tent last night before sleeping, with the orange moon rising slowly above the mountains in front of us. @vincentnijman and I unfolded some of our fears and vision around

How our world has changed in one day! Last week we began looking more earnestly at our 'financial situation' and to consider asking for help. A couple of days later we spoke to Vincent's dearest mamma,

stripping burdock stems, in the rain, hence my burdock leaf hat 🤭 I just finished an online meeting with the Blessings Of Liberti discourse, in the New Earth Sovereignty Academy. It is 3 am, and there's

So we were getting out of the car at a very-expertly-parked spot, just the other side of a pavement, next to a large, wet wood pile. In Trivento, Molise, where we were trying to resolve an issue with the

Sitting in bed with a scalding hotwater bottle at the base of my back, and @vincentnijman tap-tapping away beside me on the Hive, we’re doing our best to stay cosy of an evening, whilst our miniature stove

It has been the most straining and torturous week yet, and even so, we have made huge progress on the simplest, most important things. The hardest part was firstly coming into conflict with our landlords,

Dear Hive Friends and Homesteaders! I'm sitting at a finally-rather-pretty-looking table, drinking Earl Grey and listening to the rain outide - and dripping into various buckets from the leaky roof! There's

Dearest Hive Friends and Homesteaders! our beautiful Cornus mas tree - one of them; we found 4 already! It is taking a while to appreciate it, but we have just crossed the threshhold into a new dimension:

Dearest Homesteading & Hive Communities, ginormous snail shells: looking forward to pasta alle lumache one day! What to write about, having been on our New Land for a handful of days, and then having

Dearest Hive Homesteaders & Free-Living Folk! Well, what to say, about being on our new land - 11,000 square metres at 650 m elevation, in the northeast of Molise - around un mezz'ora from the sea....?

Dearest Hive Friends, My latest podcast can be found on Spotify and Fountain, and hopefully other good podcasting providers.... The Art Of Life podcast on Spotify The Art Of Life podcast speaks to how

Buongiorno Needleworking Friends and Hive Community! It is very exciting to share with you today: I am just putting the final touches to two of my favourite pair of trousers that I ever made, because they

scroll down to see progress on this new red coat Dearest Needleworkers and Hive Friends! I’m sitting in the back of my new atelier workroom (the old chapel bedroom), and looking around at the tons of fabrics,

My Needlework Monday sharing is delayed this week, to make way for this healing crisis and reflection around it <3

Is it invariably better to ‘not gamble’ with change??

Dearest Hive Friends and Lovers of Freedom, Part One of Slow House-Hunting can be found HERE I am sitting opposite @vincentnijman in Feni’s Bar in Agnone, during the VERY quiet siesta time here in this

What has changed for me in these past 6 yrs? Everything!

Listing for The Arthouse, Guardia Sanframondi

And that, in the end, is how I got Free: exercising Freedom, which gets easier and easier, the more we do it.