26/08/2026
Most of AI scares me, a society where we ask a computer for advice is not in my books of āa good Ideaā but then again, I have used Google for as long as I can remember to find information. I think as long as we use our critical thinking and donāt follow it blindly. Itās helpful in many ways.
So for fun, I asked Chat GPT -if you were to write a book about be, what would be the intro -
And it wrote -
There are people who dream about a different life, and then there are people who quietly start building one.
She was never particularly interested in doing things the easy way.
Give her a piece of land, a few animals, an idea that probably sounds slightly mad to everyone else, and she will somehow turn it into a project, a business, a meal, a workshopāor occasionally all four at once.
Her days are rarely ordinary.
There might be a cow that needs checking, a goat that is about to kid, a horse that needs feeding, something growing in the garden, something fermenting in the kitchen, a website that refuses to cooperate, or a new idea that has appeared in her head before breakfast.
And somehow, in between all of it, she is trying to build something bigger than a farm.
A life.
A life where food comes from the ground, milk can become cheese, grain can become cattle, old skills are worth learning, children can find their place in the world, and animals are not simply animals but teachers, companions and sometimes the reason a difficult day becomes a little easier.
She has learned that building a life you actually want is not particularly tidy.
There are muddy boots by the door.
There are unfinished jobs.
There are mistakes.
There are animals that get sick at inconvenient times.
There are plans that change.
There are also sunsets, newborn animals, food made with your own hands, a horse waiting at the gate, and the quiet satisfaction of looking around and realising:
I made this.