A Few Hours of Pottering
Designed by BearmoreDo your days off still feel like work?
Let yourself have some of your day. Don’t wait till it’s almost over. A long walk, take care of the vegetable beds and the bees, slow cooking, and get everyone sitting at the table to eat together.
The runsheet
A long walk in nature
Being in natureHalf an hour outside. Yours might be dogs across the fields, the lane behind the house, the park before the school run, the country road on the way to the gym. Boots, jacket, no headphones, no agenda. Just get outside.
30 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing being in nature before gardening
These go especially well together because gardening flows directly from nature time, keeping that outdoor connection alive.
The vegetable beds
GardeningTwenty minutes tending whatever you grow. You might be checking on tomatoes, weeding a single bed, picking herbs for the cook. The point is the deliberate-care in nature: the relationship with anything growing in pots or in the garden.
20 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing gardening before acts of kindness
This is an excellent pairing because nurturing energy from gardening can make acts of kindness feel more natural and considered.
The bee round
Acts of kindnessTen minutes specifically with the bees, or the version of bees you happen to keep: chickens, the bird feeder, the cat that sleeps on the kitchen step. Yours is whichever creature in your life benefits from a slow check-in.
10 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing acts of kindness before cooking (mindful)
This is a strong combination because cooking after helping others continues the caring intention inward, which can keep the feeling alive rather than letting it fade.
Slow cooking
Cooking (mindful)Twenty minutes cooking slowly with what is in the garden, in the fridge, in season. A long-cooked egg, a tomato salad with the herbs you just picked, bread the right way up.
20 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing cooking (mindful) before eating (mindful)
This is an excellent pairing because eating what you've just cooked mindfully completes the full cycle from preparation to nourishment with intention.
Sit and eat with whoever is around
Eating (mindful)Twenty minutes at the table with whoever is around. Family if family is up, partner if partner is up, just you and the dogs if not. The meal is the heart of it, so don't rush through it.
20 min activityTime well spent.
2h 24m spent doing something good for yourself.
The breakdown
Burst evaluation
Wellbeing focus
About this Burst
This Burst puts slow-paced outdoor work into a longer five-row Burst shape: a long unhurried walk through the fields, twenty minutes tending the vegetable beds, ten minutes specifically with the hives, slow cooking with what the garden gave you, and a sit-down meal with whoever is around. The pace is the practice.