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The 500th Slow Life Blog - Slow Life Blog from the Lake District
It’s taken 29 months to reach the 500th Slow Life blog posting, which is an average of 4 a week and about 150,000 words. Slow Life began as the story of our quest for self-sufficiency; we were...
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About Me - Slow Life Blog from the Lake District
The idea of Slow Life is to take the principles of Slow Food, which are “good, clean and fair”, and extend them to life in general. Here in the Lake District, the air is clean, the pace is slow...
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#The Hotel - Slow Life Blog from the Lake District
Anything over a million viewers would have been acceptable, but Channel 4 were ecstatic to hear that 2.3 million viewers watched the first episode of The Hotel – and that it was the most viewed...
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Workaways - Slow Life Blog from the Lake District
Kevin, from the US, but with Chinese parents, and Laura from Canada arrived on the first day, and stayed to the end, ten weeks later. In between they were joined by 15 females and 6 males, from four.....
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Jack’s Black Magic - Slow Life Blog from the Lake District
Jack Gott, the Dahlia guru, who so generously named his stunning new “petite” Dahlia after his colleague’s baby daughter (see yesterday’s posting) has developed another stunner, pictured...
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The Slow Life Journey to Work - Slow Life Blog from the Lake District
On a day like today I’d be willing to bet that there is no journey to work better than mine. I begin in Grange-over-Sands on a sparkling morning when the rising sun casts long red shadows on the...