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| LINDSAY WOODSTER, the environment |
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| Thursday, 21 June 2007 | |
 WITH HOLLY AT HOME IN THE CHARENTE Lindsay had an exciting life and career, teaching subjects including Design and Technology and Modern Languages, in locations ranging from an inner ring secondary school to Soviet Moscow, among others. This was interspersed with a return to academia where she added Women’s Studies, Foundation Science, Issues in Environmental Science and the Rise of Modern Science to earlier studies of Geography, English, Geology and French. She has climbed the Matterhorn and Kilimanjaro, helped build a straw-bale house in US, travelled in Africa and elsewhere, installed a solar water system in Northern England, worked as a builder, roofer, gardener and sold on markets… “I’ve also been usefully ‘unemployed’ (Thank-you Ivan Ilyich). I am a feminist, a novice bee-keeper, vegetarian vegetable grower, wood turner in waiting, a reborn scribbler – I was a 17-year-old gopher in the news office of ‘The Guardian’ after winning an essay prize, and missed a trick. I think I’ve tried to live and look and read and learn, and to keep doing so. I am 180 years old. My knees are f****d but I don’t really want to wind down, just change my priorities. I’ll probably never jump from an aeroplane. I have never been as confident as I sound.” |
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