Pottering: A Cure for Modern Life

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Keep it digital free. What you do when you potter is often so inconsequential that it’s not worth a picture or post on social media. Switch off and distance yourself from your devices for a while. So much satisfaction can be derived from writing a letter, making a photo album or flipping through a magazine. Heading to the upper floor you'll walk into a large open plan living/dining room with another cloakroom off and a HUGE Garden room bringing the outside in - just what you would expect from a home of this standard. Thats not all though, two balconies adorn either end of the house with access to the hidden gem beyond! The fabulous fully equipped wide galley style kitchen is very modern and caters for all chefs!

Pottering is not glamorous. You don’t have to put too much effort in, go very far or even do it with others. Pottering is not a lifestyle concept, and it doesn’t require practice. Just be.

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When you potter, there’s no need to rush out and buy new things. Pottering is about being resourceful. It’s about thinking on your feet and making do with what you’ve got.

Making do with what you’ve got inevitably anchors pottering to the home. That said, pottering is not the same as carrying out household chores. “The distinguishing feature of pottering as opposed to ‘jobs around the house’ is the slow pace at which you do it,” claims McGovern. There is also a lot to be said for the satisfaction you gain from pottering. (Compare hoovering the carpet, say, to hoovering the crumbs out of a cutlery drawer and you’ll begin to see the distinction.) The first chapter explains the basics: Making do with what you've got, don't try too hard, movement, keeping it local and keeping it digital free.What I love about pottering is you get to set the bar extremely low. In fact, you don’t have to accomplish much at all. The Fundamental Principles of Pottering Author Anna McGovern writes with charm about the joy and practicality of living in the meandering moment, not asking too much of yourself and yet still getting things done in the gentlest of ways. Having books to dip into, to take a minute with is, a rich resource to work towards contentment. I have been carrying this book in my bag and using it as respite. This isn’t a huge book and it’s an easy read, but it does make you think, if you go into it with an open mind. There is an element of mindfulness, of slow living, of paying attention but it is also a manifesto to take a hard look at what you spend your time on and consider if just pausing and having a potter won’t actually improve your health.

Then the chapters are full of musing and specific suggestions for how to go about pottering when following that particular guideline. For example, under "don't try too hard," we are invited to do tasks that are "quite satisfying and useful only but the tiniest margin," like sweeping with a broom, cleaning out old bags/purses, sorting junk drawers, leaving something to soak, sewing on a single button, cutting scrap paper out of old envelopes, organizing key dishes. In the book Pottering: A cure for modern life author Anna McGovern describes pottering in the following way: it robs us of the sanity-restoring time for reflection on our inner life, and may even dull our awareness of the need for regular encounters with the self.” My quest to slow down

This is the book for people who want to discover productivity at an easier pace, and above all the contentment you achieve when accepting that you can only do what you can do.