Flying Solo

Someone recently asked me, "What do you do?" That needed some thinking about. 

Like author John Marsden, I have done a whole heap of different things and jobs.

I’ve worked many years in different agricultural sectors around the seasons; was in the Army Reserves for 9 years (here and the UK), as a store person/truck driver.

Have worked as a lollipop lady, a sports supervisor, a cleaner, vets assistant, support worker, kitchen hand, in cellar door sales, even a dive instructor! 

But now finally I’m doing what I always wanted to do. Create my family Homestead and get back to the land. 

The trouble with flying solo away from paid work is income.

I love markets and meeting people and while our tiny village markets are nothing like the huge European ones that have been running for hundreds- even thousands of years- the face to face contact with producers, artisans and shoppers is really lovely.

As humans we’re interactive beings and maybe we learned through covid that we actually do need each other.

I meet great people on the market circuit and if you’re in the south west corner of Western Australia, I’m at the Nannup and Bridgetown fortnightly markets. I have seasonal veg and flower seeds, lunar planting calendars, biochar, plants, some produce, and am always up for a conversation about the Anastasia books.

Nannup has an extra village market next week (August 10th), while the Nannup Flower and Garden Festival is on.

Hope to see you there!