Thought bubble

I’m not quite sure where the morning went ... various jobs and odds and sods. My head feels a bit full at the moment.
The weather forecast was spot on and I left home at 2 and managed to stay dry for a lovely walk up the hill and then down towards Pooley and back again across the wonderfully ancient footpaths via Barton. I picked up some crab apples to add to the sloes, haws and rosehips i gathered yesterday and got home to make a hedgerow sauce for dinner.

One of the things that has occupied my mind is being without a car and being able to manage from where I live and with no one else around. I’ve been feeling angry with my landlord for not being prepared to sell. This place has no meaning for him. It is where I have lived for years, where my husband died, close for work (if I can manoeuvre more over this way). It is his right of course but the whole issue of land, ownership etc etc, travel, trying to live in at least some sustainable ways, and so on ... and realising how hypocritical and unsustainable my life is. It is impossible to find any eco-friendly property round here. I was looking at little bits of land and thinking I only want a corner to put a tiny eco home, an eco shed will do. I struggle to see how on earth progress will be made at COP26.