I don’t know why I stopped blogging about lockdown, but I notice it was after 28 days, a full cycle. I felt like lockdown life had become normal and for a while we all knew where we were. Now things are weirder than ever and we are struggling to adapt to our new life adapting … More Almost everything is broken, how do we NOT return to normal?
We have had a huge amount of rain so far in 2020, more than in the whole year 2019 already! The garden is like a jungle – wild climbing cover crops were never meant to get so high, and even though it hadn’t rained for 12 days when I arrived, everything felt fresh and humid. … More Spring in the food forest…
A selection or articles, essays and videos relevant to ecological design, regenerative cultures, climate crisis and building resilience. Boodaville recommends will be published once a month in English, and once a month in Spanish. This month there’s some heavy reading. For each article I give comments and selected quotes if you don’t have time to … More Boodaville Recommends No. 4 April
Wednesday 8th April. Everyone is in good spirits today. Bernat left the house in the afternoon to go to the office, then shopping. He needed to upload a video for a client and because at home it would take 15 hours, and at the office it takes 3 minutes. What? Yes, that is true. He … More Day 27 / Lockdown in Barcelona
Tuesday 7th April. Inspired by the book “Exploring Natural Mystery” and looking for adventure, me and Kira agreed last night that I would wake her an hour before dawn, to go to the terrace and listen to the birds wake up. We lay on a blanket, but arrived a little too late to see the … More Day 26 / Lockdown in Barcelona
Monday 6th April. I put an incredible amount of energy into the first hour of home-schooling today. Kira was playing quietly with play mobile, and I even left the room for a while and she carried on! Then I just about managed to get her to read a page of her book. I introduced stickers … More Day 25 / Lockdown in Barcelona
Saturday 4th April. I’m not feeling relaxed. I slept in, which wasn’t as good as it should have been. Sometimes I think my skin and allergies are worse when I sleep longer, but I certainly appreciate not being woken up too early! Weekends mean we don’t try for any type of “schooling” and that noone … More Day 23-24 / Lockdown in Barcelona
Friday 3rd April. I desperately want to see the forest garden at Boodaville!! It has rained every week, the rivers are full, I heard from a neighbour who passes by that “everything is very green”. I can imagine!!! I just want to see it for real. I hope he can do me the favour of … More Day 22 / Lockdown in Barcelona
Thursday 2nd April. Struggling to find time to write about today. In summary, exercise is great and by the end of the day I felt better, but yoga wasn’t enough, 8:30pm striding up and down the terrace and running up and down the stairs still wasn’t quite enough, then in the bathroom while Kira was … More Day 21 / Lockdown in Barcelona
Wednesday 1 April. A day of shit British weather, and I don’t mean shit weather “like the British have” I mean a day equivalent to a shit day by British standards. Grey, wind, rain all day and we haven’t seen the sun since Sunday. Boredom hit today, for me and for Kira. The prospect of … More Day 20 / Lockdown in Barcelona
