Waiting for the machine to stop
Preoccupations of a sociologist-vanlife traveller-homesteader-mother
Trying to do my best work as western capitalism crumbles about our ears.
Through musings, ideas, revelations, troubles, failures and fuck-ups, this blogs aims to open up emotive discussion about what we value in life and how we want to be valued.
We also rent a yurt. For quiet rural farmstays. If you want to get away from it all.
What am I writing about?
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- Parenting and unschooling
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- Vanlife
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- Redefining work and labour
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- Communal living
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- Farming and permaculture
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- The complexities of lived capitalism (let’s not beat ourselves up)
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- Vernacular Islam
parenting and unschooling
Croatia, Tuna ‘ranching’ and the state of our oceans
A 10 minute read. Just read it. Its important.
House-dwelling makes us lazy?
in defense of vanlife
This blog documents my reflections as we travel, and settle, and parent and carry out the work that is surviving. Our journey, gradually moving further away from ‘the West’ and what it embodies (literally and metaphorically), we are trying to unlearn the things we take for granted as normal, searching for different forms of value.
travel and #vanlife
I fasted for the month of Ramadan. Here is what it was like.
NB. I wrote this post in 2019, which was my first time fasting Ramadan, and updated it in 2020, after my second time...
Traveling in a van with young kids: my essentials
Having spent nearly two years in and out of living in a van, with a hyperactive child, aged two to four years old, I learnt the hard way what was needed on the trip; what was missing; what was superfluous; what worked and what didn’t work in terms of organising the space and so on.
Russell Brand, utopia and the posthuman
This blog post was previously published in November 2013 on the now discontinued Weeks Centre Blog, a blog of the...
Yurt Life
Are you attracted by off-grid, self-sufficient living but not sure if you can hack it? Are you keen to escape the cold Northern European winter and try out sunny southern Europe living?Maybe you have some money saved, or you have the opportunity to take a sabbatical, or you are a digital nomad or have flexible work.
This might be the opportunity for you, please read on.
right livelihoods
Toddlers and screens: is the tablet computer a tool of the devil?
I’m unsatisfied with the information in blog posts and articles about the dangers and damage of too much ‘screen use’...
Survival or specialisation?
what do we want for the next generation?
Farmstead Life
we decided that a run-down casita and a hectare of neglected olive and orange grove in Andalucia was exactly what we needed, and after a Permaculture Design Certificate, much trial and error and blood-sweat-and-tears, we are waiting for the machine to stop whilst continuing to plant the last sapling, as it were.
Farmstead Life
we decided that a run-down casita and a hectare of neglected olive and orange grove in Andalucia was exactly what we needed, and after a Permaculture Design Certificate, much trial and error and blood-sweat-and-tears, we are waiting for the machine to stop whilst continuing to plant the last sapling, as it were.