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Garden Making: Where to start

Many moons ago, in a previous working life, I used to spend much of my time with business specialists who were very good at stating the solution they would like to have for a perceived problem, without defining the problem well or at all.  First ideas can be very attractive this way, it’s possible they will solve the problem, and there is a high chance the actual problem to solve is missed.Whilst there is plenty of practicalities to resolve in the design process, at the start, we can tap ...

Thoughts: Experiences and patterns in Biotime

Yesterday, whilst hunkering down in the home office, listening to and observing the thunderstorm, I remembered to note down the experience in my “Biotime Log”, which has been a rather haphazard practice so far.  I wrote:“Very stormy day, thunder that sounds like a growl, lightning brightening the dark skies”.The Biotime Log is available from Permanent Publications and includes a lovely introduction by Maddy Harland about biotime.  Maddy writes:“Biotime is more than the observ...