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my name isn't Rose, Joy. :-)

Island, you needn't have done so.

A rose by any other name is still ..... :-D <3

Perhaps I can call the tiny market town where I live a 'slow city' :-D

I prefer to keep villages, towns and cities separate but that wasn't really the point of my post :-)

I've edited my post for you :-)

I was also in at the inception of the first garden industrial zone in Oz which operated broadly around the 'green theme'.

I know Ludlow reasonably well, Island, my younger brother lives there and his allotment is as fab as his garden, the latter he opened to the public to raise funds for local charities one year.

It was classed as the first slow city in England, whether or not it was actually a city.

Having now googled slow cities, I find that Cockermouth is also on the list, the area where some of my Quaker family lived. I am pleased about that.

It's not a new concept as I studied it many moons ago. :-D

I do like the quietness and the birdsong....it was eerie to begin with but now I quite enjoy it :-)

Very interesting Pat.

Kath. x

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cittaslow for Island and those curious :-D

The only thing I really miss is local restaurants and bistros as I like going out to eat some evenings and we normally go to the rugby club every week for Sunday lunch. Don't much like having to cook all the time!

Kath. x

He and I have embraced the slow lane for a while now. Growing some of our own, enjoying arts and crafts, our weeks punctuated by a routine of visits and visitors. We've never been ones for 'gadding about' but we are far from dull. We were happy with our lifestyle.
Now that we can't have visitors and go to our social groups life has become pretty mind numbing. Like our friends, we have plenty of interests but without the regular company there is no motivation. Not liking it at all.

I usually only go out twice a week - once to meet friends for coffee and once to do the weekly shopping.

Like you, I'm speaking to friends on the phone and our son who lives with us is doing all the shopping. I really don't usually like food shopping but I must admit I would like to go and pick up the things I usually buy. Our son tends to get "more or less" what we've asked for but also lots of things we wouldn't normally buy so it's costing me more!!

Our garden is looking much better than it usually does as hubby has more time to do it (the garden is his domain).

As for me I'm just reading more, cooking more and watching the same news on TV over and over again.

Kath. x

It is quite different for us, Kathleen.

I usually meet friends for coffee a few times a week but we are keeping in touch by phone now. OH usually does voluntary work two or three half days a week.

So far, neither of us has missed it - but, of course, it's only been a few weeks so far.

Our two children have been really busy working since it all kicked off - but they have their own own homes.

OH is growing for England and thoroughly enjoying it. When we moved in here there was a full-sized greenhouse which he gave to a friend as he was not a keen gardener.

It's all changed now and he has a mini-greenhouse and a couple of glass-covered growing beds.

Surprising what everyone is currently getting up to, isn't it?

I quite like the slow pace of life although it's not much different from my normal life.

In fact I have more company at the moment as hubby and son are here all the time now whereas usually son is at work and hubby spends a lot of time at the rugby club.

Letting my mind wander is a favourite pastime of mine.

Kath. x

Just sitting, letting my mind wander.

OH and I agree that there's a lot to be said for the slower pace of life that we are living at the moment - we both quite like it, except for the circumstances that make it a necessity.

There's a lot to be said for growing your own wherever it is possible.

It must be a bit like this, though not as enforced, if you live in one of the slow cities.

The concept has been going for many years now so perhaps this is the time when more city fathers will take note.

Ludlow, I think, was the first in the UK. There are a few more but for the life of me I can't remember them.