LandWorks Updates

Hello, “Mate (Aussie accent), I’ve read your little blog thing for years and mate, all you do is moan. Why don’t you ever say how you would fix it?” Right-oh, good – always encouraging to get…

Hello, “Do you feel that, Chris? You know, the destruction of hope, the pervading sense that we just have to accept all this.” Oh dear, it’s Monday morning, and I had been quite hopeful of just…

Hello, “Alright, Chris, you a Grandad then”. “Er, no”. “Oh, sorry mate, they said you turned 60, my Grandad’s much the same age.” I start to do the maths, but give up…  accepting probably everything is…

Hello, “When do you get the orange suits, Chris, the offender jump suits the Government want us to wear? I’m not wearing one of those.” I answer quite simply… “We’re not going to have them here.”…

Hello, Seven minutes, that’s all it takes to get him from LandWorks to the train station, and he must have told me how bad the weather has been recently at least twenty times. My absurdly optimistic…

Hello, There are moments, glorious moments… A text comes in at 10.16 am… How’s things with LandWorks mate? Just checking in; been sober for a long time now. I’m feeling so happy and grateful mate. Would love…

Hello, I thought it may be helpful to update you on few things at LandWorks…. The PeN Project is in its seventh year. I think this project is quite unique in that it gives a voice to those…

Hello, Oh, somebody’s waving at me and it looks like they’ve got a book in their hands. I walk down to meet them at the shop, I reckon it’s one of our second-hand books they’re brandishing. We’ve…

Hello, My foot triggers the security lights, which in turn jolts a wee wren from an opening in the eaves of one of our porta cabins. It is tiny and flits low over the ground. This…

Hello, So, I had obviously drifted off. Bit awkward. I was thinking about why being in Prison gives people’s skin such a grey pasty unhealthy pallor, and oh god how many times have I been dragged…

Hello, I thought given the rather bleak news around at the moment I would write something a little more upbeat, positive, perhaps even a little bit cheerful… So, over the last 12 months we have provided…

Hello, Christmas Past… “Well Chris, me and the missus is hoping for a bit of a white Christmas, if you know what I mean?” Looking back, I still cringe at the thought that I didn’t really…