This question popped into my head today as I was standing in my kitchen, blitzing cooked, home-grown pumpkin to a puree. It crossed my mind that the average person in this town doesn’t grow their own pumpkin, and doesn’t therefore, cook the flesh and make puree with it. They certainly don’t do through the process of preparing and cooking the pumpkin seeds for a snack to go with their home-made wine. So it got me thinking – what do normal people do?

As a few examples, I ran through an average list of the kinds of things I do in a week:

• time on the allotment
• preparing tincture/cream/herbal remedy of some sort
• homeschooling
• sourdough bread or crackers
• kombucha
• dairy kefir
• putting up a blog post mon-fri (at the moment)
• weekly podcast episode
• poetry writing
• fictional story writing
• drying and storing herbs or home-grown veg
• wine making

I have a couple of other things like ‘Postcrossing’ (see previous post called ‘Do you still like to receive ‘Real Post’?) and I’ve written to a guy who is a journalist – now in prison; 60 days in solitary – for telling people not to storm the capitol building on Jan 6^th. No, I don’t get it either. His name is Owen Shroyer.

I like to take photographs, listen to podcasts, walk our dog and the decluttering process of our house continues.

So, today, I was stopped by the thought, “what does everybody else do?”