Friday, 25 December 2020

Segaran family - A year in Pictures 2020

It has certainly been a different year to the one we planned to have back in January 2020. But in general, we have a lot to be thankful for. We have acquired new skills, took pleasure in doing things locally and spent time with distant friends using Zoom and a myriad other video apps. 

Jane set up a spare room as her sewing workshop, updated her sewing machine went on a few virtual courses to up-skill and started sewing bags for the mini rocket stove and for the Wonderbox thermal cooker in earnest.

Wishing everybody a Happy New Year. Below are are some of the family highlights from 2020. 

January: We attended our first Solar Cooking Conference in Faro and presented 2 papers. It was great to meet solar cooking enthusiasts from across the world and share stories.


February: We pick up our caravan - the first part of our plan this year to take our low impact cooking workshops out to a number of green festivals. We used it to run remote workshops from as well as to discover Yorkshire over the summer.



March: The year's highlight was being part of the celebrations surrounding Joseph's and Richard's wedding. It was a lovely lovely family gathering - here are a few photos to try and capture the event.


Little did we know how lucky we were to enjoy this - the troubles to come best highlighted by this notice in one of the toilets in Amsterdam. Empty streets in York in the first few days of lock-down.



April to June: We spent the first lock-down by trying out new recipes, going for bike rides and walks when we could and taking a few of our planned sustainable living workshops on-line as virtual events. 

Various garden gatherings for Birthdays.


August 2020: Coming out of the first lock-down. Work and play at Beetle Bank Farm - A Community Supported Agriculture venture.



Joseph collated all his cooking photos into a new website - Cooking with Joseph

Emily picked up joinery, DIY and gardening skills with great results.


Luke and Sarah carried on working from home all through various Covid lock-downs. They managed to get a short break in Lincoln. Luke used the time to try out exciting new recipes using black garlic and other exotic ingredients. 



Christmas Day 2020: