lia is a guest writer this week who has written a beautiful reflection on the weekend – a hug to you lia!

A wonderful work share weekend at “Anna of Boodaville” place.

Besides the soothing feeling to your soul provided by helping and sharing, and  framed under the paramaters of a new movement involving Transition Towns guidelines, Permaculture developments, and Awakening movements; I was so grateful and drawn in by the natural environment and the shear fullness of people who participate helping Anna; an English born girl, with an Spanish heart; to  ”get ready”,  for the ” Boodaville Festival”, that has been taking place during the last 4 years on the outskirts of Calaceite.

Little by little, rock by rock, Anna’s enthusiastic approach to have a place where she can dwell on the future and provide educational and instructional knowledge to people who are realizing that we need a different approach to life, where sustainability, diversity,  but mainly, a great love of nature thrive, in order to live more harmoniously, and recover the humanity we have lost, on this maelstrom  of  ”money God world”.

 A “hurray” for Anna, and thanks all for the great time….!

safe use of the axe?

the land is looking pretty lovely this week

bench making

shade structure going up! no pictures of the finished article, but i promise you it is finished

and you can keep up with the latest news here
and buy tickets for this year here

igual si te gusta excavar y mover grava o te anima crear un sitio fantastico para el festival, necesitamos que gente apuntarse para visitar fines de semana en abril y mayo. primavera ha llegado y después de mucho lluvia la val rovira esta verde, con rucula salvaje, dandelions, y flores de cereza. el río esta lleno y precioso – abril es el principio de la temporada de meterse en el agua. entonces dime cuando estáis disponible y organizamos unos equipos para trabajar, bañarse y barbacoar! anna – thegurney@gmail.com

well there were just two of us in the end and the cleaning got done a week late…. but the house is done! no more mouse poo and ready to move back in for the season (spring has officially started now!) we didn’t feel that a calcotada was appropriate with a vegetarian, and one other person, so we stuck with a walnut pear gorgonzola and lentil salad, and waited until the evening to cook on the fire and our roasted stuffed red pepper recipe and it didn’t work at all badly. i wonder how many oven recipes can be successful in hot coals. a roast chicken? hmmm

i spent one of the best 99c ever on a dust mask and sweeping out the house was fine.. the only dust that got through was the very fine almond mess left by the mice. they have tucked in nicely to the huge green sack of almonds (in shells) i stored near the bed.

we also planted 20 lettuces and some strawberry plants so that by the festival they are ready to eat – the plan is to harvest and forage as many ingredients as possible!

click on photo to see the snow gallery!

(we don’t make any profit, but it’s nicer to sell tickets in advance than go round asking for your contribution on site! any questions contact anna: thegurney@gmail.com)

buy them here

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tickets available here too

line-up and practical information here

también hicimos carnaval estilo calaceite y fuimos al baile en el polideporitvo.  una fiesta muy muy del pueblo….

the builders have made arches over all three of the doors – that’s better than a concrete lintel. the house continues to be a work of art! now i just have to finish the drainage so they can build the fourth and final wall.

we also did carnival calaceite style and went to the dance in the sports hall. it was a real small town event…