Dreaming in Luxembourg
Last week I was in Luxembourg at Foodsharing – sharing food without borders. This is some text I wrote on the way back home. Be warned, it is a long…
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August 30, 2023
Sweet Boat 3D
I started out using paper to do potential layouts for the boat. I had tried using Sweet Home 3D a while back for doing a layout, but it seemed too fiddly. I gave it some more time though and got my head around it, so here’s a boat layout!
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August 14, 2023
Visiting Crick boat show
I went to the Crick boat show for the first time over the weekend just gone. It was very intense experience for me, and gave me a lot to think about. Some of it a bit overwhelming. That’s kind of the whole boat experience, oscillating between excitement, overwhelm, and ignoring it all. I’ll collect together some of the points I came away with here.
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May 30, 2023
Not my boat
I’m getting a boat! 🚣♂️ 🙀
After a long process of pondering, I took the plunge, and put down a deposit to get a build slot for a new canal boat. That was scary but also felt very right. I’ll share some of my initial reflections here, with more to come as the process unfolds.
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May 2, 2023
Private!
I noticed a lot of private land, and I wonder why. How did they get it? I’ve read enough about the enclosure acts and the commons to know a lot of dodgy stuff happened in the past, and we are still living with that legacy (see Who Owns England and Land In Our Names for some more about that).
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March 28, 2023
Horses
There's a lot of horse stuff in the countryside. Bridleways (which you are allowed to cycle on, yay!), fields with horses standing around, stables, horse vehicles, fields with those white…
March 17, 2023
Food in the countryside
Almost all the food I saw growing was (most probably) not for direct human consumption, but for animal feed. Huge fields of broad beans growing which they let grow, die,…
March 14, 2023
And back home 🏠
I'm back home again. And as usual, lots of Things To Do in life, which right now is exciting, but can also be overwhelming. The linear life of a bike…
March 14, 2023
oh, here's my path onward
An expedition… near Didcot
I wasn’t expecting to be dragging my bike through snow, but that’s like life. I have enough resources to manage. I’ll sure appreciate to be in a cosy house after the trip!
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March 9, 2023
Snow!
I had a nice couple of days visiting a friend in Oxford. Now back out into the snow. Well, kind of snowy wet slushy stuff.
March 8, 2023