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Author Archives: mumukshu
Lightning, a forest fire and planning permission
I arrived back in Spain after a 2 week absence from the mountains on June 9th. The World Cup was starting and I was retreating into the mountains! It had taken 2 days to return as my train in Tortosa … Continue reading
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Building Update, April 21 2006
The builders have been working on the retreat centre for 5 weeks now and the speed with which the building is changing is astounding. Vijayasri and I have moved on from our reaction on viewing our future retreat centre of … Continue reading
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Heather’s fortnight, March 2006
I write this on my return to England, following an amazingly fantastic, extremely memorable and special two weeks spent at Aranya; it was filled with physical work, fun, laughter and learning experiences, on many levels. I had three main reasons … Continue reading
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Winter, Spring ….
End of Winter In March 2006 life continues in the mountains of lower Aragon. We are emerging from the cold and snowy winter, where we learned amongst other things how difficult it was to put snow chains on our 4 … Continue reading
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Building Update, March 2006
This month the project moves into a whole new phase, as the builders have started work on the Retreat Centre! The old house, which has been standing empty since the 1960’s, full of old tools and clothes, pans and bottles, … Continue reading
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Moving into the New Community House
So now the three of us, Vajradevi, Bianca and I are living here in Mas de Lluc, the community house. We arrived here the on same day and were plunged straight into the usual catalogue of complications. El Gordo, our second 4×4 chose that time to have an intermittent electrical fault and completely died on us two days running when we were just about to set off up the long rough track to the house. Two days running … Continue reading
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Developments over the last few months
During these last few months much has happened with Aranya. In May Vajrananda, our Sangha builder, finished working on the support community house and returned to England. His last couple of weeks involved a completely new project as well as … Continue reading
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Building Update, March 2005
Vijayasri and Vajrananda (our builder) have spent the winter months in a chilly flat in Penarroya, the nearest village to our property. They have been visited with up to 3 or 4 volunteers at a time who have been helping … Continue reading
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