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Behemoth



Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds
PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 05 1:45 pm    Post subject: Possible Article Reply with quote
    

I was thinkig of doing an article along the lines of "Downsizing - it's where your head's at", a sort of development of the "Road to River Cottage" idea but set in the real world, heading towards an 'it's a state of mind' rather than a "the goal is to cut yourself off and you have to share your body warmth with goats in order to survive" sort of thing.

What do you think?

I'm not promising mind and the ETA is November...ish

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: escaped from Swindon
PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 05 2:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It sounds on the button me me

Northern_Lad



Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 05 2:14 pm    Post subject: Re: Possible Article Reply with quote
    

Behemoth wrote:
I'm not promising mind and the ETA is November...ish


By then it might have turned into a 'how to start a sausage making business'

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Nanny



Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales
PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 05 2:14 pm    Post subject: article Reply with quote
    

i'd read it

you would be taking a sort of halfway house approach which is all tha a lot of people can do anyway

as you say more of a state of mind than anything else

aren't you suposed to sleep with goats then?

i'll have to move back in and leave the shed to them then

i wondered why they were only interested in the duvet as a midnight snack........ and then they wouldn't share properly

Bugs



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 05 2:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Good idea. We seem to get a lot of people on here who feel embarassed that they've not obtained some mythical status, or worse, that they're not doing as "well" as other people, if you could think of some way of reassuring people that it's more about thinking before you act, and just taking the steps that fit in with your life, that would be particularly fab.

Your ETA is around our first anniversary too - might be one to include or finish up with, comments from a range of members, on what it means to them.

Blue Peter



Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 2400
Location: Milton Keynes
PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 05 2:17 pm    Post subject: Re: Possible Article Reply with quote
    

Northern_Lad wrote:
[By then it might have turned into a 'how to start a sausage making business'


Is that's what's going to happen with the goats I've been cuddling?


Peter.

Lozzie



Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 2595

PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 05 3:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Have you read this book?

I'm just over half way through - (oh God that's a DREADFUL PICTURE; let me try and get a smaller version -)



(that's better)

I'm actually quite enjoying it.

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45389
Location: Essex
PostPosted: Sun Jun 12, 05 7:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

B that sounds good

Lozzie, hows about a review?

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