A few ideas on the forces at play in our economy and what I’m doing to prepare for a strong inflationary move.
Category: Experience
After 3 Years of Living in a Van
Some reflections on the pros and cons.
The Role of Psychedelics
Ideas surrounding the future uses of psychedelics.
The Tastiest Way to Process Wild Boars Part 1
One of the reasons for visiting Japan this winter was to learn how to trap, process and cook wild boar and deer from my uncle and auntie who lives on the Southern tip of Izu Peninsula. Since these posts will contain a lot of bloody pictures and a video of the kill, I contemplated quite…
Volunteer Travelling
I left the UK at the end of September and it has been 8 months travelling mostely in France. I am now heading back to the UK in mid June to earn some money and the current plan is to explore the Spanish side of the Pyrenees – Catalunya – next year. As the time…
Last Few Week’s Update: May/June
La Montaigne Magique In May, we stayed for two weeks at La Montaigne Magique. We picked super nutritious nettle and bramble shoots to be dried, sorted through wild rosemary buds, created balms using various macerations and helped set up a terrace herb garden. The hosts were always generous in sharing their knowledge and allowed us…
Last Few Week’s Projects
Short updates on what we’ve been up to.
After Two Years of Living in a Van
The biggest change this year was my girlfriend Sally joining me recently on the journey. It required further minimisation, few tweaks to the layout and purchase of a double mattress but we’ve somehow managed to squeeze two people’s belongings in a space designed for one. We’re able to get changed, cook, slide past each other,…
This Week’s Project
We arrived at Liza and Simon’s home in Puivert about three weeks ago and have been busy setting up raised beds, pruning trees, feeding animals, chopping fire wood and building access to a future tree bog location. I have finally given into making videos since it’s far easier to show these projects visually than to…
Treeline
The winner of Mr Shimasaki’s best cinematography and best documentary award (if there was one) goes to Patagonia’s new film about trees. Superbly shot in the mountains of Japan, British Columbia and Nevada, the sensually framed ancient trees, with insights from scientists, other specialists and a shinto priest, gave me the same feeling of wonder…
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