Margot's Blog

I had been intending to have a good firewood sawing session for weeks. It never happened! Other things were always higher on the to do list....

The whole country is on strike! And so were we. A while ago, the union had put out a ballot. Did we want to strike for the usual things? Wag...

It’s fairly standard for me to not or minimally heat the living room with central heating, and topping up the warmth with a woodfire. But it...

I suppose it was unsurprising! I had had a busy week. I had my normal teaching, and in addition I had a big pile of marking, and the dissert...

One day I was climbing the stairs to the building where my office is, and at the top of the stairs I found a student and a cat. The former d...

The wall is now really sorted! It was half sorted a fair while ago . And the men have now come back and pointed the part of the wall they co...

We had our first citizens’ assembly on sustainability in the Ogwen Valley in summer . And then nothing happened for a while. And then we wou...