The Cottage and Competence

How competent are you at living an intelligent, frugal existence?

How competently do you define such an existence?

How competently have you developed such an existence?

If you are currently combining a virtual retreat with a physical retreat, how competently have you prepared for the latter?

The Cottage and Kindness - Part Four

Why is acting with well-informed kindness apparently so difficult for so many people?

Is there anything difficult about it to you?

How deeply do you consider kindness in various situations?

The Cottage and Kindness - Part Three

Reasonable helpfulness is never intrusive.

It involves offering kindness without expecting anything in return.

It is practiced without ulterior motives.

The Cottage and Kindness - Part Two

How do you ensure your kindness does not encourage laziness?

The Cottage and Kindness - Part One

What do you know about well-informed kindness, and how do you know it?

How kindly and thoughtfully have you been provided with assistance here?

What have been your experiences of providing well-informed, kind assistance?

The Cottage and Creativity - Part Four

Is your life something of a muddle at present?

Do you consider the world to be in a muddle at present or is it really becoming more in tune with once upon a time?

The Cottage and Creativity - Part Three

If you have been exploring the aesthetics of the everyday, do you usually associate aesthetics with leisure or with work, or both?

Do you usually associate commerce with aesthetics?

Do you usually associate industry with aesthetics?

The Cottage and Creativity - Part Two

How do you compare cottage living with various expressions of country living?

What do you know about creativity and urban cottages?

How do the aesthetics of everyday living express themselves through your creativity?

How do the practicalities for everyday living express themselves through your creativity?

The Cottage and Creativity - Part One

You may associate cottages with upcycling and/or craftivism in the 21st century.

Which aspects of your creativity are associated with transforming otherwise unwanted items into expressions of the applied arts and fine arts?

How do you reflect upon your everyday life?

The Cottage and Industries - Part Four

Have you ever inhabited a tied cottage?

Have you ever rented a holiday cottage?

What do you know about tourism?

What do you know about serfdom?

You may think of cottages mainly in relation to villages and/or smallholdings.

You may associate cottages with outhouses, barns, wells and country lanes.

You may associate cottages with elderly people or work-at-home parents.

How do you usually think about cottages in relation to art?

How do you usually think about cottages in relation to nature?

The Cottage and Industries - Part Three

You may associate cottages with crafts, particularly handicrafts and rural crafts.  You may even associate cottages with artisans and/or folk art.  You may also associate cottages with poverty and possibly even squalor, or the picturesque.

You may associate cottages with the putting-out system of proto-industrialisation.  You may associate cottages with farm labourers and/or home businesses.

The Cottage and Industries - Part Two

You may have been studying investment possibilities in the little library here.

The Cottage and Industries - Part One

Although night soil may not be one of the products most associated with relatively comfortable cottages in the 21st century, you may recently have been thinking about toilet paper and its associated industries.

You are likely to consider most cottages (and toilet paper) to be tangible property. 

What is your acquaintance with intangible property? 

Do you ever associate cottages with telecommuting and/or virtual volunteering?

Do you ever associate cottages with dubious work-at-home schemes?

The Cottage Itself - Part Two

You have already been introduced to the cottage itself.

What do you now know about it or at least think you know about it?

The Cottage Itself - Part One

When and where did you first become aware of this virtual cottage and its garden?

The Cottage Garden - Part Two

In part one about the virtual garden of Frugality Cottage, an important question was presented.

Here are a few more questions of importance:

Are you familiar with no-dig gardening?

Are you familiar with seed saving?

Do you know how to make good compost?

Do you know how to nurture good soil?

The Cottage Garden - Part One

Do you know much about cottage gardens and kitchen gardens, in any particular part of the world?