I can’t remember everything we’ve been up to this week – I know there’s been the usual story/lyric writing, role-playing/playing, netflix watching, dentist, trips to the park. And Mandarin classes started back after an extended Easter break – always great to catch up with our mates there.
Another (Friday-Monday Easter) weekend at Paddington Farm Trust was spent with friends – days of tree climbing, egg collecting (chicken and chocolate), spinning and playing for TCO and her pals and some coursework, reading, serious chilling by the fire, a titchy amount of digging at Torganics and a bit of semi-naked sunbathing for me. And, as a complete bonus, my Growing Resilience course held workshop number 4 at the Farm on the Saturday; it was great to feel so much at home on the Farm and to see the positive reactions to it from those who had never before visited. The afternoon was spent learning about growing vegetable and community gardens in the Orchard (where else?) And did I mention that we’ve got a brand new 5m bell tent. Did I? Did I? Loads of space, gorgeous.
Growing Resilience
The Tinderbox was our higher cultural treat on Wednesday evening at Bristol Old Vic. I wrote about that here!
A late night gave way to a morning on Uphill beach as volunteers for Marine Conservation Society’s Big Beach Clean-Up! A well attended event, complete with an industrial sized BBQ, food and chefs supplied by M&S and the Rainbow Steel Band, TCO and I collected a black bin bag of rubbish. A lot of plastic (particularly sweet and lolly wrappers) and polystyrene; I did the picking and she wanted to take care of the tally – over 200 items, apparently. We’re back doing some more at Sand Bay Beach with some fellow home edders on Wednesday!
With some of the MCS team (including Starfish)
Documenting Litter
From TCO’s “The Story of Me” journal
For something completely different, we headed up to Trinity Community Centre on Saturday for the 2014 Bristol Anarchist Bookfair, an event I’ve been meaning to visit for years. I was pleased to see a few people I know and to find yet another recipe for chick peas. We did some drawing, chatting, browsing and eating but the highlight was definitely the Wounded Warrior trail at the Trinity Community Garden! Interactive storytelling at its best, we learnt how a handful of herbs can be used medicinally, hand-picking them from the garden with lots of other families. They’ve got a similar trail coming up at Trinity’s May 11th Garden Party – go if this is your bag!
Curing the Wounded Warrior in Trinity’s Roundhouse
Collecting Medicinal Herbs
Knowledgable Tree Folk
Learning
What learning happened this week then? A great deal, I suspect!
One Big Life 