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Once Upon a Town Three Transition Initiatives Met… (Day 132) August 7th

I talk to Glen Powell, my host at Tan House Farm, over breakfast and l...

Within Sight of May Hill (Day 133) August 8th

The morning starts late for me after a quiet time writing up my blog i...

Of Song, Wild Raspberries, and Abbey Dore (Day 131) August 6th

I leave Hay on Wye reluctantly; it has much the same pull on me as my ...

Once Upon A Tree, in Dragon’s Orchard (Day 126) August 1st

Once there was an orchard, which had been in the same family for 80 ye...

Journeying toward the Welsh Border (Day 127) August 2nd

I leave Breinton and head west for Hay on Wye; it is a long 20 mile wa...

Tales from The Welsh Borders (Days 128-130) August 3rd – 5th

 Day 128   A Lammas Fire In the morning I meet Ernie the gardener a...

Twibbons

Chris Wells from TT Kensal to Kilburn has put together a proposed desi...

Sharing the Transition Towns Twitter identity

From Saturday 7th August to Wednesday 25th August, the Transition Town...

Conference 2010 write up by Amelia Gregory

Amelia Gregory, of Amelia’s Magazine fame, has been a stalwart s...

People Make Transition Happen (Day 122) July 28th

UPDATE – since I posted this blog, John Nicklin has created a...

The Malvern Hills (Days 123-124) July 29th & 30th

   Part One     More Malvern Tales I wake up in Lower House Farm...

Tolkein’s Country (Day 125) July 31st

Today begins by getting up and going to Green and Away to speak at thi...

Adding yourself to the speakers and facilitators directories

This is an illustrated guide explaining how to add yourself to the Spe...

If you have a garden, and a library, and a dome, you have everything you need. (Day 121) July 27th

As I leave Janice and Ken’s house to go to Bishopswood with John I n...

Caves, Railway Carriages, and the Most Beautiful Georgian Town in Worcestershire July 26th (Day 120)

 I leave Stourbridge accompanied by Pam and Tails the cat; amused tha...

Butterflies and Glass Cones 25th July (Day 119)

        Pam takes me back along the canal to see Stourbridge�...

Out and About Around Stourbridge July 24th (Day 118)

Schools Out (Day 117) July 23rd

Naomi and Seren accompany me along the railway path through Smestow N...

Day 113 A Very Beautiful Town – Food for the Soul

From the Shrop to the Stafford Shire (Day 114) July 20th

Wolverhampton Wonders – Out Of Darkness Cometh Light July 21-22nd (Days 115-116)

I chose Wolverhampton as a staging post on my route very early on in m...

Telford’s Legacy (Day 111) July 17th

The First Blackberry (Day 112) July 17th

Navigation changes

Further to much reflection, analysis of website usage metrics, discuss...

Day 107 A Community Owned Village Shop and a Visitor from the Wirral July 13th

After a good breakfast cooked by Richard Clegg of the Wall Hill farm g...

Day 108 More Wyches July 14th

Day 109 St Swithin’s Day, or the Lost Tale of the 15th July

Day 110 – The Empty Centre of Our Land July16th

Enhancements to the site

We launched this site in March/April 2010 with the lovely big beta sig...

First meeting of Transition Suffolk – a new sub-regional grouping?

There were 22 local Transitioners at Jeannie and Glenn’s farm on Mon...

Heading South Into Cheshire July 11th (day 105)

Heading South Along Water Ways July 12th (Day 106)

Family Time (Days 102-104) July 8th -10th

I awake in Blackrod, dark clearing; nestling atop and along the bottom...

Local Government workshop presentation

Videos from the conference

Just an absolutely MASSIVE thank you to Emilio and Sara who did some r...

Ancient Woodlands and the Mallard Summer Gathering (Day 100) July 6th

I start my hundredth day in grand and fitting style in a sauna followe...

Industrial Disease (Day 101) July 7th

Crossing Lancashire July 4th-5th (Days 98-99)

Samagita takes me for brunch in the WhaleTail – a wonderful whole fo...

Announcing the new forums

Ta da! We are proud to announce the (gentle) opening of our new forum...

Growing Well (June 30th) Day 94

I take a look at “How Bad are Bananas” TT Kendal & District�...

Hum, Holler, and Sing (July 1st) Day 95

I wake to the sound of the house martins who live above my window feed...

Two to Tesco’s (July 2nd) Day 96

I knew that’d grab your attention! What’s this all about then? Wha...

Vision and Hart (July 3rd) Day 97

Work that reconnects workshop report

Thanks to Hilary for (a) stepping in to run the ‘work that recon...

An inside view on the fourth Transition conference

From Sophy Banks If you’ve had enough of the Transition Conference a...

EDAP workshop recording

The recording of the EDAP workshop is on our Transition Radio site Th...

Closing session recording

The closing session was an amazing end to the conference with an excel...

Paradise Regained (Day 93) June 29th

Days 90-92 A Sense of Place

June 26th   Auld Grey Town   (Day 90) I spend this day quietly rev...

Day 88 To Shap: with Roses, Elderflowers …and Cattle June 24th

I leave the pretty village of Dufton, nestling in its valley with grey...

Day 89 – Fells, Goats, and Chocolates (25th June)

The Sun Is Shining Down On Me (Day 87) June 23rd

Doing a Figure of 8…buzzzzz* (day 85) June 21st

Am at Naomi’s Forest Garden at the Newton Rigg campus of the Univers...

The Eden Valley (June 22nd) Day 86

 I leave idyllic Morland, perhaps a little too quickly for my liking;...

Day 84 – The Old Red Town (20th June)

I like it here; I have one of those hazy childhood memories of having ...

Cuddly Transition workshop recording

Nick Osborne, trainer par excellence, TT Glastonbury member and co-cr...

Co-ops workshop recording

Thanks to Nick Osborne for recording the Co-ops workshop from the conf...

Community ownership of assets workshop presentation

Thanks to Diana Moore, regional development manager of the DTA for her...

Transition International Youth project launches

Hi, we are Joe, Poppy, Yali and Michael, and we are part of a group of...

Of apocalypse and forest gardens

From John Thackara: Three hundred people came to South Devon in Englan...