(Nimue)
Last year, Keith and I spent a couple of very happy days in a yurt. We've decided to go back for a week, starting from today. I've got the blog loaded with content, and I'm not going to have much internet access, so I won't be able to work. This is probably a good thing, as it's been rather full on of late.
It is an absolutely luxury and a privilege to be able to take some time off, and to spend it in a beautiful, peaceful environment. Holidays have not really featured much in the last fifteen years, so this is a very big deal for me. Having the time to rest, relax and reboot my brain a bit is a wonderful prospect. Hopefully I'll come back with a head full of ideas and a recharged body. No doubt I'll have plenty of blog material.
It is also a huge luxury and privilege to get to spend time in a yurt for fun. Being off-grid, having a drop toilet, cooking on a fire - these things are quite entertaining when you have time and not much else to be doing. When your actual life is like this, but you also have to interact with the modern world, it is tough. Slowing down like this only works if you can also take time off. I had some experience of this in the two years of living on a boat.
This kind of 'retreat to nature' experience works as a holiday, and works if you can genuinely just live day to day, but otherwise it's hard. I'm painfully aware that we cannot all 'retreat to nature' full time - most of us do not have the skills (I do not have all the relevant skills). The pressure we would put on the land if too many people wanted to live in a yurt in a field, would be horrendous. At the same time, living closer to the land has a great deal to show us, and having those experiences may help in face of everything else. This field gets to stay pretty wild because of the yurt, so that also has an impact. As every, it's all about balance.
The photo was taken by Keith last year while we were there.
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