Me not using ChatGPT
I will try and go back and label sections so it is more coherent - but I probably won’t.
Firework thoughts💫
Village -
I am growing my village using the ancient traditions of Minka and Sumak Kawsey.
Minka - everyone contributes what they can
Sumak Kawsey - living the good life
I am also focussing on Generations - ensuring every Generation has a voice, their needs shared - but also what they have an abundance of.
One Generation may struggle with time, where another may have an abundance of time.
I currently have an abundance of time, but lack energy.
When I have short bursts (boom) I try and do something meaningful to help boost the boom for as long as possible.
Boom and Bust
I have Multiple Sclerosis and also carry the BRCA 2 gene.
In July 2025 I had an Oophorectomy (try and say this without making the OOOOOPH sound - I really struggle), so was forced into Surgical Menopause.
It has been the most beautifully spiritual and joyful experience, but also times which have been sadly unpleasant and incredibly difficult.
Luckily I am Super Sparkly - positivity is my only choice
Lovely things-
I have turned my home into The Junglelow - a bungalow with so many houseplants it looks like a jungle. Like literally - Royal Mail have now confirmed it 🤣😂😊✨
I have chicken hour with my darling neighbour - we sit in my wooden garden shelter swaying in the boho hammock chair whilst we giggle, talk nonsense drinking hot chocolate and coffee (made in the expensive coffee machine I bought myself for my birthday - from my mum and dad 😊✨).
Then we let the chickens out. These aren’t normal farm chickens. They are my Spoilt Gourmet Hens.
They were my gift to myself after my parent’s inheritance came through.
My lovely husband agreed to the Omlet Cage in bright pink - the big one - we could get six chickens.
He was the one building it.
I adore Omlet and every single one of their products (maybe not the chicken swing), but it does not take 1.5 hours to put their cage together - well - it did not take my usually very clever husband that.
He insisted that the 3m run would be huge, and once he had finished building it I could see if I wanted it bigger.
Informed him bigger the moment he said he had finished.
They are chickens, they like to fly.
Ordered and bigger arrived shortly after - huge extra cost - one postage charges + all the extra fun bits to go in the much much bigger space 😊✨.
These aren’t normal farm chickens. They are my Spoilt Gourmet Hens.
Spoilt Gourmet Hens -
I might just show you a photograph of ‘looking after my chickens’ instructions to my darling neighbour.
I take a photograph and send it to them too - in case they misplace the giant piece of paper in the very large dining room table.
REMEMBER TO PUT PHOTO HERE - if you are reading this and it is October/November 2026 or later - please get in touch and tell me the photo is still missing - ha this is fun. Normally I ask a gadget to remind me.
Understanding my energy-
Think Golem - “my precious'“
Oooh I might do a guide to talking to someone with no energy. - Human reminder please- before Christmas so I can publish it for my husband - ha - and give subtly to people wasting my energy. Anyone who wishes to collaborate with this PLEASE get in touch
ugh I am crashing - bust.
TBC
this is keeping me positive and boosts the boom - as does my community.
= one spoon * = boost
(••••••••) = me because I have already misplaced everything before I start
I use spoons as a measure of my energy - people with chronic illnesses have less spoons than a lot of people, use them up quicker, then often lose them. Literally.
But I am Super Sparkly and can sometimes boost * - this does not bring back the spoons - it gives the spoons I still have a super surge - imagine Tetris music whilst feeling like the ‘whizzy smash/hit everything in my way whilst I invincibly sparkle’ star booster on Mario Kart - that is me - but it always wears off.
Build with me
Feel free to copy in your own communities - and do take photos of your lovely Gammon rolls. I will assume anyone wanting to do this has the highest hygiene standards - and checks the meat is 70 degrees
(••••••••) get cereal bowl sized dish out
(••••••••) big blob of honey
(••••••••) big blob of wholegrain mustard
*** mix
Long bit of foil + medium length piece of foil
*** make a T or + with foil
***