http://gravyland.net where we go to play Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:49:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bea was asked to do a timeline for school - about her own life. These are the images she selected (with a bit of help from her folks). The song Bea chose was great (Mica - My Interpretation..." You talk about life, you talk about death, and everything in ... http://gravyland.net/2009/06/15/beas-first-eight-years/ Brighton Naked Bike Ride 2009 from Rosie Sherry on Vimeo. No point trying to spot our wobbly bits - always something else on that day, so missed it again! Maybe next year. Find out what it's all about here A peaceful, imaginative and fun protest against oil dependency and car culture. A ... http://gravyland.net/2009/06/15/why-we-love-brighton-reason-391/ Hi everybody, has been a while since we updated here, so I'll do a Christmas Special post with a bit of what we've been up to. I (gra) am slowly working my way to 100 pushups, I'm in week three now, so maybe half way there. We spent a fairly quiet Christmas ... http://gravyland.net/2008/12/27/merry-seasons-happy-new-year-thingy/ One hundred pushups. Seems like a reasonable goal.  I'm going to have a go over six weeks or so. I did the initial test and managed to do  12 pushups, which is ok for a beginning I guess. And boy can I feel it in my upper arms. That pleasant warmness that ... http://gravyland.net/2008/09/19/goal-one-hundred-pushups/ Here we are back from some summer holidays. We did a lot. Here’s the quick summary to keep you all up to date: A week in Devon at the family friendly Buddhafields retreat that we go to every year. Camping. Rain, floods and mud. A week working with at ... http://gravyland.net/2008/09/07/summer-holidays/ We've just launched our new business, Nodestone.  We're bringing Lib's and my businesses together to cover Social Web Education, Integration and Development under one roof.  Exciting. Please come over and have a look at nodestone.com. http://gravyland.net/2008/06/16/nodestone/ Swim after work Originally uploaded by gra We headed down to the beach in Hove after work today and had a swim and bbq with Simon from the works with his kids and Jay popped down as well. It was a still, warm, beautiful evening, http://gravyland.net/2008/06/09/swim-after-work/ We've headed west, and over the water to the Isle of Wight for a week of seaside fresh air and blustery winter walks and no doubt too many cream teas :-) We're staying around the St Helens Duver in a little NT cottage. Been hacking around on foot and by bike ... http://gravyland.net/2008/04/12/isle-of-wight/ We've cleared the bit above the rabbit-proof fence and have made room for ten rows of potatos there, and after a lot of digging, mostly not by me, planting starts. That leaves the really steep bit far up the back of the allotment for grass and maybe a cubby-house for ... http://gravyland.net/2008/03/09/potatos-planted/ Was Christmas really a month ago today? Yup. As I said earlier, we had a nice one. Full of friends and family. We had ten adults and five kids staying over from Christmas eve to the day after boxing day, as well. That includes us. We fully filled up the house ... http://gravyland.net/2008/01/25/christmas-wrap-up/ Excellent timing. This year the spring Low Tide Sunrise Bike Ride is going to be on my birthday, April 8. What better way to start a birthday than rising at dawn and riding along the sea bed. Perfect. More Details on Upcoming [Update: 7 April: not doing it this year now. Been ... http://gravyland.net/2008/01/25/my-birthday-riding-on-the-sea-bed/ Here we are, 2:29pm on Christmas day 2007. We have a house full of wonderful friends and family and after a mad present-unwrapping frenzy we are having a quiet interlude with appetizers before the Queen's speech coming at 3pm. It is raining outside.  I've got a sniffly nose.   But that ... http://gravyland.net/2007/12/25/xmas-2007/ I planted this collection of perennials today in the third wide bed going up -- the bed above the garlic.. November is probably a bit late for planting, but we'll see I guess. This bunch is called 3 seasons collection from Spalding Bulbs. Alistair came down as well and we dug in ... http://gravyland.net/2007/11/25/allotment-perennials-planted/ A quick update: The my-poor-old-laptop saga resulted in Apple sending me a new MacBook Pro. I’ll post something about that whole process soon. In short, it was long and painful, with a (so far..) happy ending. Lib’s Authentic Blogging courses are off and running. She’s running three courses at the moment ... http://gravyland.net/2007/10/30/quick-update/ We’re sharing an alottment with a couple of mates. Three families in all. Seems about the right amount of people to keep it going. So far I’m loving getting out there and gardening together. I want to keep a bit of a diary here so we get a sense ... http://gravyland.net/2007/09/30/down-on-the-allotment/