It’s nearly two months since I posted. Most days I’m in survival mode with the occasional glimmer of feeling well enough to undertake a half hour of sitting down gardening, or cook a meal sitting down with rest breaks in between, but most days you will find me on the sofa 🙄 My heart rate still isn’t right and I’m now dealing with another long covid complication called Mast Cell Activation Syndrome or MCAS for short. This means I don’t tolerate eating a lot of foods containing histamine and certain cleaning smells can have me feeling like I’m short of breath.
Despite life in the mundane slow lane I have been taking photos so here is a rough round up of the past six weeks or so:
Books Galore
The garden has been a valuable healing space, on good days I’ve eaten breakfast outside, photographed flowers, learned to love weeds (a real sign of resilience and my watch word this year 🙂) and adopted slow solutions in tackling my Permaculture Design Certificate- not giving up!
Painting the compost bin and fence panel was a joint effort family affair. The other panels will be painted at some point.
Out in my PJs on a Saturday morning moving buckets to collect extra water using the permaculture principle of ‘use and value resources.’
Meditative sky watching.
Planting a variety of free seeds gifted by a friend, some have already begun to germinate.
Dave tying in the Egremont Russet apple tree.
A whiskey barrel plant guild - food to eat, food for pollinators and nitrogen fixing plants. In the barrel there is a variety of flowers, tomato plants, lettuce and beetroot seeds and I’m hoping to plant some beans for nitrogen.
