The garden

Short entries: things noticed, lines read, questions without answers yet.

1. noteA good pencil seedling
2. noteThe first cold morning
3. noteTomatoes, the last of them

Attention, habits and doing fewer things well.

1. The case for doing one thing a day evergreen
2. Notes on attention seedling
3. Why we write in public evergreen

Routes, weather, maps and the same five miles.

1. A year of walking the same five miles evergreen
2. Drawing maps of places from memory seedling
3. Walking in the rain is underrated evergreen

Soup, bread, ferments and cooking without recipes.

1. What fermenting taught me about patience budding
2. The Sunday soup evergreen
3. A winter of bread budding

Languages, skills and learning things late.

1. Learning a language at forty, badly and happily budding
2. Why we write in public evergreen
3. Teaching something you only just learned budding

Slow reading, commonplace books and rereading.

1. My commonplace book system, in full evergreen
2. Reading slowly, on purpose budding
3. Reading aloud at the kitchen table evergreen

Calendars, daylight, markets and the year turning, one small season at a time.

1. Cooking by the market, one season at a time budding
2. Learning to sketch birds, badly seedling
3. The seventy-two small seasons seedling

Darning, repairing and looking after things so they last.

1. Looking after a pair of boots for nine years budding
2. Fixing things with strangers on Saturday mornings evergreen
3. Learning to darn a sock evergreen