Since Palestine time has just flown by

Since Palestine time has just flown by, Ron had a really hard time coming out of Israel, which included an humiliating strip search, he was then ill with what turned out to be gastroenteritis, flew straight to Ireland, to take part in a conference in Cork, arrived back home looking grey & ill spent the next 3 days insisting he didn’t need a doctor & then ended up in hospital on iv antibiotics etc

Any way he is fine now & 4kg lighter!

Meanwhile I have been very busy on the croft, Seppi & I shared some peats this year & we already have them stacked & almost dry on the moor& ready to bring in, very different from last year where I just managed to get them in at the end of august before the rain started.

I have been doing loads of work in the poly tunnel & the courgettes are now in flower, tomatoes, beans, pumpkins & cucumbers are growing well too. We added 3 new chickens to our growing flock, Orpington’s who are very pretty, but it a mystery that our daily egg numbers haven’t gone up, we think the ravens may be stealing them.

The biggest delight though has been the addition of 2 female Kune Kune piglets, they are absolutely gorgeous and very friendly, they sit like dogs when you stroke them & make squeaky noises similar to the guinea pig. We are going to find a boar from the main land & start breeding them.

Meanwhile our other pigs are doing well, porky is off down the road soon to live with 3 new females, though we believe he may be leaving our 2 sows pregnant. Which means when we arrive back from Australia, we may have new additions to our ever -growing family.

Meanwhile work is hotting up. Ron is off down to London to run the first workshop with Jacqui Dillon, then he has 2 days in Roehampton, then he is home for the Thursday, the day the kids break up for school, Saturday we all leave for the main land Ron to carry on the workshops in Manchester & Glasgow with a conference speech at the national assertive outreach conference.

Then he fly’s out to Australia & will be away for 8 weeks, I join him on the 16^th July & I will be over there for 5 weeks, we have a really good tour lined up with work in Perth, Tasmania & Canberra.

We are also looking to run a really exciting programme of workshops in the autumn, Ron & Rufus May looking at psychosis & emotions, Paul Baker on how to run a hearing voices group, 4 day voices course, making champions happen residential & a one day voice dialoguing in London.

I am looking forward to our home office being finished , firstly we get our bedroom back & secondly we will be able to hire an admin worker to help me, which will vastly improve the time I can spend on the croft & being with the kids

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Ron Coleman and Karen Taylor have an international reputation as speakers and authors. They are the directors of ‘Working to Recovery Limited’ an innovative international consultancy, training and publishing company with a cutting edge approach to supporting and improving mental health provision.