SiobhanVohn / is on Nostr

Helping to eliminate digital exclusion in Scotland.
Interested in equality, inclusion, environment & good food.

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2023-08-19 21:11:21

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@npub1ezx…74mr you've talked to me about that before. 🫂
I was incredibly lucky that my village school was being renovated when I started, I was in the village hall for the first year, very little structure, allowed to wander freely.

2023-08-19 21:07:54

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@npub1ezx…74mr good plan. Lovely for Lucy to have personal things from friends lining the roundhouse too, keeping it warm. I use my late fathers old wool picnic blanket (delightful 70s brown and orange checked pattern!) as a draught excluder at my front door. It makes me smile every time I look at it, think of dad still keeping me warm.

2023-08-19 19:23:11

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@npub1ezx…74mr @npub1ezx…74mr yes, agreed re not bussing kids to school. I was thinking more of a mixed model for the schooling. A combination of home schooling, forest school, community workshops, etc. Traditional schools are not inclusive for lots of kids. An alternative model would appeal to lots of parents and actually encourage them into the village I think.
A model that requires a minimum number of children to be viable seems problematic to me, given that the planet is overpopulated.

2023-08-19 19:09:07

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@npub1ezx…74mr oh yeah, I vaguely remember seeing that done on a small boat. It'll be pretty on a floor. What will be the source of the cotton?

2023-08-19 16:50:00

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@npub1ezx…74mr yes, I'm with Lucy. Much more special to have made everything oneself and to have sourced the materials from local land. 😍
Also with you though, as I can't cope with drafts 😆

2023-08-19 16:25:28

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@npub1ezx…74mr read your essay now. Generally liked it, but not sure I agree with the premise that a viable village must have a school.
Really liked your 'Manifesto for a good society' which I also read. It's how I've always wanted to live.

2023-08-19 15:35:35

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@npub1ezx…74mr I'm so impressed by this. Seems utterly magical that anyone can make their own floorboards. 👏

2023-08-19 14:24:18

Thanks so much to everyone who's donated to Highland Wool's fundraiser.
Here is one of the pieces that they're raising funds to buy and restore. Isn't it beautiful?
Their target is £7000 to purchase, repair and transport this carder to the Highlands from south Scotland, along with a wool picker and assorted other pieces of equipment.
Awesome news! They broke through the £1000 mark this morning! Keep sharing and let's bring this beauty back into use!
https://gofund.me/47c05f4e
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2023-08-18 17:23:55

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@npub1a3t…dnex @npub1ezx…74mr @npub1sgu…zjjt I think, like with a lot of things, that is changing as people start to understand the need for more sustainable lifestyles. That is making some historic practices more commercially viable again.

2023-08-18 13:46:57

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@npub1ezx…74mr @npub1xr8…k0ae Good point about temperate climates. Flax used to be a common crop here. How beautiful must fields of blue flowers have looked! But what purpose will recent small scale trials have? Why would farmers grow it as a crop when the last of our local linen factories closed a couple of years ago. There was an outcry, even though most people, even fans of locally sourced materials, hadn't even known it existed or even that we had a thriving linen industry in the past.

2023-08-18 12:11:28

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@npub1xr8…k0ae I am one of those rare people who can't wear any wool. However as @npub1ezx…74mr says, good quality wool is suitable for most people to wear. I value natural sustainable materials and local sourcing and supporting local economies, so I still see merit in promoting things like this even if the end product is not suitable for me personally.

2023-08-18 07:58:20

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@npub1ezx…74mr agree with your post. Will read your blog after work, thanks.

2023-08-18 07:36:50

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@npub1ezx…74mr Thanks so much for sharing Simon. I knew the project would appeal to you. 😍

2023-08-15 18:34:29

I logged into Pinterest today for the first time in years. Musing on this wood burner I had saved, I reckon I thought it looked funky, the remnants of an ancient time when volcanoes covered the planet. Now it just looks like depressing modern reality.
#ClimateChange
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2023-08-15 07:01:18

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@npub1ezx…74mr that's a good hat. I wish I could wear wool, I might not be so damn cold all the time.

2023-08-14 20:33:51

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@npub1ezx…74mr purple is good. I would ask for details to better picture you in it - knitted, polyester, fleece - folded or plain - but it is time for me to sleep, so farewell to the hat chat. I'm sure I will think it a dream unless I scroll back on my socials in the morning to untangle reality from reverie.

2023-08-14 20:07:52

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@npub1ezx…74mr because you love that hat, so the memories associated with it are jumbled?
Perhaps something bad happened with it, so you have hidden the memory and the hat, but couldn't bear to get rid of it completely, so made it a monster under the bed instead. Probably best not to poke it too much. 🫂

2023-08-14 18:39:32

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@npub1ezx…74mr as another with an addled memory, I try to come with logical reasons when things occur that jar me. For this incident I would reason that the most likely scenario was that my hat was returned to me in the interim and I've forgotten that bit.
Or perhaps the clear memory of losing it was actually a dream that has somehow become lodged as a memory. I discovered a few years ago that this bizarre thing has been happening most of my life. 😱