Self sufficiency

I  hope your week has been going well. Mine has been mixed-enjoying the new job and the team of people there, and LOVED a socially distanced bring your own lunch with my old team. Home schooling this week has been rough!!! Both of us tearing our hair out and preparing for battle before we even started. Please tell me I am not alone?!

My veg growing has been mixed too.  The carrots and beetroot are showing up and survived the hard frost.  The parsnips, which I sowed at the same time have done nothing so I will wait and see.  I did read something that carrots and parsnips should not be grown together just after I sowed them side by side-so that could be something to do with it....

Cucumbers got 'frosted' but might survive, courgette and squash are thriving on the windowsill, as are the pepper plants.  I suppose these things are a reflection of life-ups and downs, successes and failures-all I can say is that I'm glad I am not totally reliant on my own efforts-self sufficiency is a long way off!!  

It did make me think though about the whole self sufficiency thing-is it all it's cracked up to be?

 I asked for some help with the home schooling-a different approach/face, and things improved. I continue to try to find better ways of working between home and the office, juggling home schooling and dinners, by trial and error, asking others' advice, watching how their attempts go.  When I look at the 'Grow Your Own' sites, I would love to think that I could have an amazing veg garden, fruit trees, and chickens-produce our own food. I will need some help though-advice, practical help, and sun, rain, good seeds with potential to grow.  

Self sufficiency-or is it self reliance- only goes so far I reckon-we all need a bit of help from others.  Maybe a part of this whole lock down thing has shown me so very clearly that at some point we need to realise that despite our best efforts,  we can only get on so far in life, stay well for so long, and ultimately it's not in our Hands at all.  Personally speaking, that's fine by me.

 A little food for thought!