Our first gathering after what seems like a long break and indeed after a long time joined by Pippa. NO WORK DONE. We just nattered, caught up, exchanged, drank tea, chai, ate wild mushrooms and chipolata's and admired the community garden and tenacity of Squashes, breaking out of their pen. Thanks Caroline for the heads… Continue reading Friends of Kaliwood 2025
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Socratic Dialogue in Kaliwoods – Why does truth matter?
July 2025. With 10 participants from Liverpool, London, Halesworth, Gorleston, Wenhaston, Fressingfield, we spent 1.5 days in Kaliwood, in dialogue with the question Why does truth matter. Sunshine and rain came and went, we sat under the hornbeams, enjoyed some fitting Chi Gung given to us by Cindy at the start of each session; in… Continue reading Socratic Dialogue in Kaliwoods – Why does truth matter?
SD in the woods: Why does truth matter?
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Kali reflections time
Time passes. I still awake each morning and weep, that emotion still tight in my throat, eyes wet, such missing. I cannot believe he has gone. I return with the other two, eager to open the door to see how Kali is, and see him in my mind, rise from the wood floor happy to… Continue reading Kali reflections time
George – work-experience, and measuring sapling’s alive
Jonathan later explained how two people doing one persons work is not just twice the work but two and a half. How right he is. We got an enormous amount of work done, and it was a pleasure to have George's company and conversation (particularly with Jonathan on quantum theory - I was surprised to… Continue reading George – work-experience, and measuring sapling’s alive
Halesworth annual tree inspection
What a tough year for trees this is. I notice that 2 of Lisa's cherry's planted this year have died. Spoken directly with Highfield House regarding their dead trees overlooking London Road - report here HTC Winter Work (Lisa and Rachel) Replace cherry trees Saxon way (Lisa) Replace dead oak Durban Road (Lisa/Rachel) Replant tree… Continue reading Halesworth annual tree inspection
Kali – Gift of slate
Reuban arrived one morning (I was still in bed doing emails, far too late). He'd bought a gift, a painting he'd done of Kali on slate. We both walked to the land and he put it up, held in the hornbeam roots
Stoats on the land
They've arrived!
Halesworth Heritage Tree Walk 2025
'Imagine you're in an C18th painting' were the instructions to the group who came on the first Heritage Tree Walk, September 2025. Halesworth Heritage Tree walk day 2 gathering front of the Sequoia 2025, planted by Tamsyn in 2017 (see photo below taken a few years ago) for us to show the scale of it's… Continue reading Halesworth Heritage Tree Walk 2025
10 shoves in 1 shock
I gravitate towards dogs and their owners, so it was I called Annette Abbot, who I'd been trying to see for years (and the black poplar she and Farmer Paul planted 35+_ years ago on St Michael's common). Here is Annette under a tree heavy with apricots, she had never seen so many on the… Continue reading 10 shoves in 1 shock