Tag: permaculture

  This has probably bee...n one of the hardest weeks of my life, I was seriously considering going back to work for a rest!! Firstly the Friday night 'thank you' to Paul & Jan went a little out of the window as we all got invited to a Russian celebration in the village and collectively gave it the big thumbs up and promptly spent the evening in some lovely company, eating some fabulous food cooked up by Helena and drinking vast quantities of high quality vodka provided by Tim. Not so hard you may think, but the next day things started to go down hill a little, not only was I nursing a very slight hangover but on one of my normal trips to the spring to collect water (no we haven't sorted that out yet) I got attacked by two bees...one got caught in my hair the other in my jacket - and due to me inadvertently killing one of them, they...

A very good friend of mine was talking of running a book on where we would break down on our way to Bulgaria...he really should have got it up and running as the choices were pretty much endless. We left Derby at 9.30am on 7th April and by 10.30am near Kettering we were stationery in the inside lane of the M1 with no ignition in a 5 tonne automatic beast of a motorhome and it was 2.30pm before we were rescued thanks to the speedy responses of the AA. Despite some severe reservations about how far we would make it once the camper was repaired we finally made it onto the ferry at Dover at 2am on the 8th April, which works out at about 18 miles an hour...it was going to be a long drive!! It was Belgium before we had to get the tool kit out again and tighten up the alternator belt...then pulling in for the night in Germany...