by Alice | Dec 10, 2018 | Ecology, Food
My favourite plant is the nettle. The European stinging nettle, Urtica dioica. There’s a nettle patch at the bottom of my garden. Nettles aren’t pretty or sculptural, unlike many other plants that are considered weeds. But they are interesting and very useful....
by Alice | Feb 5, 2018 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Spiritual wellbeing, Wellbeing
This blog is the story of my spiritual experiences, in a world where soul and spirit are very hard to talk about. Spirituality is seen as a subjective, personal thing that you can’t talk about to anybody else. (Maybe I’ve already lost you!) This isn’t a theoretical...
by Alice | Aug 22, 2017 | Ecology, New Zealand culture
Watershed – two definitions: an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas. an event or period marking a turning point in a situation. I’ve written this post to get my head around the multiple, complex issues surrounding...
by Alice | May 13, 2017 | Alternative economics, Ecology, Food, social wellbeing, textiles, Wellbeing
This weekend my ukulele group The Strumbles played at our local Trade Aid shop for World Fair Trade Day. Trade Aid is one of my favourite shops in Hamilton. It’s full of beautiful things and delicious fair trade food. It’s also a successful not-for-profit...
by Alice | Mar 14, 2017 | Ecology, Food, Wellbeing
Not all salt is created equal. In this post I investigate the myriad kinds of salt and what makes them different. I started researching because I wanted to know what salt is best – both from a “foodie” point of view, and also from a health point of view. I also wanted...
by Alice | Dec 9, 2016 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Family skeletons, Life and death
This is a post about my father, Ralph Bulmer, a man literally larger than life. Ralph died more than a quarter of a century ago, at the age of 60. My half-brother Richard, who was only four, has no memories of our father. So, Rich, this is for you. And for the...
