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[purpletigron]

So I've been away ... recovering from getting my Permaculture Diploma, hugging trees in Skye and opening chefs minds in London (!) I'm just enjoying my first weekend at home since all of that.

Mum literally hit a new low last month, and although she's medically much improved, she's got a lot of ground to cover with her psychological recovery from that. She has a new social worker, who has only just met her, and her rehab therapist is going to meet the social worker for the first time on Monday, so we have to see if anything positive will come from those relationships ... I'm really hoping that she will be well enough to enjoy Yule, but she has a lot of physiotherapy to do before then, too.

The Flooger continues to do pretty well, all things considered.

Meanwhile, D is helping me really get going on the next phase of our garden rehabilitation. We've done all the rest of the ground work today to enable us to create a brand new growing bed tomorrow, weather willing :-) I will be able to think four-dimensionally of gardeners toothsome treats with the vegetable seed catalogue again!

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[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Very cool! I've been doing a bunch of sustainability stuff recently and we've taken our eco-footprint down from 2.7 planets (already lower than the NZ average of 3.75) to 2.2, and our carbon footprint's less than half the country average. Still a ways to go but we're getting there!

It'll drop even further when we get our own place and can actually plant a garden.

I want a garden full of counterintuitive veg -- green cauliflower, purple broccoli, yellow carrots, white radishes with pink middles..