Comments on: Parting shots http://permaculturinginportugal.net/blog/parting-shots/ One family's attempts to live in a more planet-friendly way Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:22:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Wendy http://permaculturinginportugal.net/blog/parting-shots/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Wendy Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:49:57 +0000 http://www.permaculturinginportugal.net/blog/?p=278#comment-20 Oh yes! It was a very good time. It was so comfortable being there on the land, despite the absence of anything that modern life might define as "comfortable". It's a strange thing -- there's no big WOW! factor to being there, just a sense like your feet all cosseted in a favourite pair of old woolly socks. Already it just feels like "home"; somewhere you automatically take care of in the way Em picked up that hoe and started working the minute she first set foot on the land. It was so hard to leave the place I didn't even get over to yours until last Saturday! Even harder to go back to the UK again ... But needs must and hopefully this time it won't be so long until we're <em>all</em> back again. Oh yes! It was a very good time. It was so comfortable being there on the land, despite the absence of anything that modern life might define as “comfortable”. It’s a strange thing — there’s no big WOW! factor to being there, just a sense like your feet all cosseted in a favourite pair of old woolly socks. Already it just feels like “home”; somewhere you automatically take care of in the way Em picked up that hoe and started working the minute she first set foot on the land. It was so hard to leave the place I didn’t even get over to yours until last Saturday! Even harder to go back to the UK again …

But needs must and hopefully this time it won’t be so long until we’re all back again.

]]> By: Michelle http://permaculturinginportugal.net/blog/parting-shots/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Michelle Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:50:55 +0000 http://www.permaculturinginportugal.net/blog/?p=278#comment-21 Love the pic of the cloud in the forest...hope you had a good time.Your pics all make it look so different from the last 2 times I was there-it was wet winter both times whereas now it just looks so lush! Love the pic of the cloud in the forest…hope you had a good time.Your pics all make it look so different from the last 2 times I was there-it was wet winter both times whereas now it just looks so lush!

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