January 2013 News

It seems a while that I have written about all the events in our community . The new year seems to have started well - nearly everyone is back from their holidays and slowly getting back into the swing of the normal routine. The few nice days we had this week have been thoroughly enjoyed by all - and there even have been moments when the feeling of spring was felt.

We have welcomed Samuel from Germany into our community - he arrived to replace Hangul who will be sadly leaving us after 1 ½ years to go back to Korea.

January seems to be the birthday season in our community and we have been celebrating the first ones.Otherwise work seems to get back into swing. Steven is busy in the garden preparing the compost for the coming year and Tomas and Dominic are busy on the farm. Catriona started to help Katharina in our new food processing workshop which was started after Christmas and is also busy with weaving a big order of seat cushions that we got. Ann Marie has joined the gardening team in the afternoon and is still making sure that the weavery can produce products in the morning. Thomas R. had a good holiday at home and is now awaiting some new projects for the coming year while he is working in the garden.

All the animals got through the winter - though it seems to be the ducks that seem to be having the most fun as the rain does not seem to bother them to much. Tom and John ( the donkeys) seemed to have been spending little time outside these last few weeks and are longingly watching the world go by from their shed.