#1579: A One Thing for the week?

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As I head out this morning to seeing the chickens and the visiting robin I found myself pondering on a One Thing I would like to do this week…

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#1578: Feeling ready to hunker down

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Recorded just before the clocks changed at the weekend here in Wales, in this episode I'm noticing just how ready I'm feeling to begin the hunkering process as the world around me becomes increasingly autumnal.

My One Thing for today is going to be a rest in preparation for what I'm expecting to be a few busy (for me!) days.

Are you noticing the changing season? How are you feeling about it?

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#1577: Porridge, chickens and marking two years on Patreon with a month of free content

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Today, you find me in my kitchen preparing my morning porridge before heading out to see the chickens and the visiting robin.

Over the last two years this podcast has been made possible with the support of its patrons over on Patreon. To mark this two-year anniversary I'm holding a month-long "Open House" during which I'll be sharing most of my Patreon content publicly to give non-patrons an idea of what I offer there in return for the support I receive.

Why not come and join me for some video and audio Podcast Extras, twenty-minute Creativity Sessions, vlog posts and one or two creative experiments? It would be lovely to have your company and maybe at the end of the November you'll consider joining me full-time.

The Creativity Session that I mention in the podcast is now online and available for free here. Come and spend twenty minutes working alongside me.

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#1576: Hanging out some washing and enjoying the morning view

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It’s a bright chilly morning and you find me hanging our some washing and then going for a short walk on the other side of my gate to get a better look at the view down the valley.

I hope your day is starting well.

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#1575: Adapting plans, juicy acorns and hot chocolate (the final TA podcast of 2020)

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After two and a half months I’m recording my final Tiny Adventure podcast of the year.

As you’ll hear, this episode isn’t quite the one I had planned for you but I hope you’ll enjoy it nonetheless…

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#1574: Hello from a very dark and wet morning!

It's a very wet and dark morning and the weather is helping my thoughts turn to hibernating and working in a more analogue way…

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#1573: A Tiny Adventure to mark the equinox

Rather unusually, I made a very specific plan for this Tiny Adventure. Timing it almost down to the second…

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#1572: An analogue podcast and Tiny Adventure (the eighth Tiny Adventure podcast of 2020)

I recorded this podcast almost two weeks again and have been very excited about sharing it with you, but because it was made in a different way to usual it has taken me quite a while to get it ready for you.

For a while now, I’ve been pondering the idea of making some analogue podcasts and as I explain at the beginning of this episode, that is what I have done here. Instead of recording on my phone and also using it for taking the photo to accompany the podcast, I have recorded the audio on a cassette tape and taken the photos with an instant film camera.

Come and join me for a Tiny Adventure within a Tiny Adventure as I pack my provisions and prepare to head up the hill to visit the Big Oak.

You can view all the photos that I took during the podcast below.

If you’d like to delve a little deeper, I talk more about the process and also share the podcast and photos in as an analogue way as I could think of over on Patreon in the this video (I’ve made the post public so you can watch whether you’re currently a patron or not).

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#1571: Making the most of how things are

I've been hoping to record you another Tiny Adventure podcast for a few days now, but haven't felt up to walking up the hill to visit the Big Oak and so, rather than keep waiting for the energy to arrive, this morning I decided to record you the podcast I felt able to rather than the one I had hope to...

Join me to say good morning to the chickens, the visiting robin, some blue tits, some brave sparrows (and a slug!).

Everything feels very alive in my garden this morning and I'm very glad I decided to record a podcast to share that with you.

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#1570: The seventh Tiny Adventure podcast of 2020: Choices

I’m deciding between doing some things and not others and keeping everything as simple as possible so that I can go for a walk up to the Big Oak today

Would you like to join me for a walk there and back again?

The podcast that I mention towards the end of this episode, in which I see the still-flowering foxglove for the first time this year, was actually a Podcast Extra video that I filmed for Patreon back on 22nd May. I’ve made it publicly available and you’ve very welcome to take a look at it here if you would like to.

Right at the end of the video I say that I have just caught a glimpse of a robin. I think that must have been one of the parents of the robin chick that has been visiting me every morning for the past three months. I love that second connection with today, four months later :)

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#1569: The sixth Tiny Adventure podcast of 2020: Not quite the podcast I'd intended

Technology, the weather and my energy haven’t been my friends as I recorded this podcast.

I had intended to start the podcast under the Big Oak (which I did) and then walk home with you down the hill after I’d sat for a while with my picnic breakfast.

I had a lovely walk home, stopping to pick blackberries along the way and chatting to you all the while, only to discover when I got home that the walk had only been recorded intermittently.

I thought I would head back up the hill another day this week and have another go at recording the second half of the podcast, but my energy hasn’t been up to it and the weather has been far less inviting than it was when I recorded the first half, so that didn’t happen.

In the end, I decided this morning to record my early morning trip out to say good morning to the chickens and my friend the visiting robin.

Not quite the podcast that I intended, but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless :)

The photo’s that I took of the robin whilst I recorded part two of the podcast didn’t work out either, so here’s one I took a few days ago:

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#1568: The fifth Tiny Adventure Podcast of 2020: Checking up on the Big Oak

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After the second of two very stormy days this week, I woke up to find myself worrying about the Big Oak and so decided to make myself a flask of spicy chai and headed off to make sure that it was okay…

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#1567: The fourth Tiny Adventure Podcast of 2020: Keeping it simple

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I’ve been missing The Big Oak, and today, the first day in a little while that it hasn’t felt that I’ve needed to spend in bed, I’ve made myself a flask of tea and am heading up the hill for a visit…

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#1566: The third Tiny Adventure Podcast of 2020: Dawn at The Big Oak

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Today, you find me tip-toeing past the chicken coop as I head off on my third Tiny Adventure of the year, a trip with a large flask of tea to watch the sunrise at The Big Oak…

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#1565: The second Tiny Adventure Podcast of 2020: Spicy chai, lichen and how old I think The Big Oak could be

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Today, you find me in kitchen preparing for my second Tiny Adventure of the year.

As you know, gathering provisions feels like an important part of a Tiny Adventure and this morning I’m making something that I don’t think I’ve made since last summer’s adventures. A flask of spicy chai.

Once the tea is in my flask (and I’ve made a peanut butter sandwich to accompany it!), I feel ready to embark on my second visit to The Big Oak. Listen in to hear the results of my calculations estimating the age of the tree :)

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#1564: The first Tiny Adventure Podcast of 2020: Visiting an oak tree

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For a few years now, August has traditionally been my Tiny Adventure month. In it I usually record a set of podcasts in which I embark a series of Tiny Adventures and encourage you to do the same.

This year I wasn’t sure I would be able to manage any Tiny Adventures, so I’m so pleased and excited to be sharing with you an unexpected adventure that may just be the prelude to a (scaled-back and slight different than usual) series.

This morning I’m off to visit a large oak tree with a ball of string, a marker pen and a flask of tea. En route I’m pleased and surprised to bump into Ounce…

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#1563: Changes. Part 2

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In the second of two podcasts looking at what has changed during my fifty-day retreat, you find Ounce and I at my gate counting sheep and listening to the sounds of the early morning…

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#1562: Changes. Part 1

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In the first of two podcasts looking at what has changed during my fifty-day retreat, you find me heading out into the rain to open the chicken coop…

• The second of these two looking-back podcasts will be available in a couple of days.

• The Agatha Christie radio play that I mention listening to can be found here (available until 21st August 2020).

As you’ll hear me explaining in this episode, I’m still not feeling as though I’m out of my health dip and am planning another fifty-day retreat. This time however I am wondering if I'm going to be able to be more present both here and over on Patreon.

Whilst I'm not making any promises, I am going to continue to explore the gentle structure that has emerged from my first fifty-day retreat and will see what that means for this podcast and Patreon.

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#1561: Gloria

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Whilst this isn’t a prelude to a return to more regular podcast episodes (it’s not quite time for that yet), I did want to pop in to say hello and to share with you some sad news about Gloria, our beautiful ginger mealworm-loving hen…

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#1560: Watching the rain and talking about plans

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It’s raining and you find me at my studio door trying to encourage Louise out with the promise of some mealworms.

I’ve spent a lot of time just here over the last four weeks looking out at my garden and it’s become increasing clear that I need to do more of the same. So, as the solstice arrives I’m popping in to say hello, let you know a little about what I’ve been enjoying looking out at (including a family of robins) and what my plans are for the next month or so.

I’m hoping to be back here in some shape or form towards the end of July. Until then, go gently <3

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