Home as a Place of Friendship and Enjoyment~Refreshing our Domestic and Neighbourhood Life

We share with, reflect and learn from each other about the spiritual and practical challenges we have nurturing our homelife while being busily engaged in the world.

The title is taken from AYM’s Advice & Queries Number 28.

"Do you recognise the needs and gifts of each member of your family and household, not forgetting your own? Try to make your home a place of loving friendship and enjoyment, where all who live or visit may find the peace and refreshment of God's presence."

This relaxed, friendly, end-of-summer opportunity at the Cockburn Wetlands Centre (reconvened from Mt Lawley's Meeting House to a place bigger and cooler in the heat!) will be a chance to bring along what you know about running a house with simplicity, as well as a questions you may have for those in the group

It might be your experiences of ...

...finding a quiet corner in the house or outside, your favourite hobbies at home, favourite morning tea recipes, how to simplify your possessions, how to not waste food in the fridge, cleaning your house without chemicals, how to retrofit your house with rainwater tanks or heat pumps (or why you’re not there yet), local Noongar landmarks, what it takes to maintain a vegie gardens or use pots for food security and relaxation, how to make your location work with transport options (including EV or active transport), weekly menu (cooking for one, flying in and out, favourite recipes for midweek), as well as practical legal and financial stuff like dealing with wills, funeral intentions, online scams, ethical superannuation, living on a pension, dealing with the lack of affordable housing or downsizing, as well as discover how we can get involved in neighbourhood learning centres or community gardens.

So bring along your sewing or repair boxes, puzzled questions you have about your smartphone or computer, bring along some art materials, pen and paper, and find out how to connect with local Indigenous people and your Local Council…

Join in a social fun time, with laughter, maybe a song, definitely a cuppa, and shared snacks as well as a shared lunch. Together we will ask how we can make our homes “a place of friendship and enjoyment."

We are asking Friends to register so we know how many we are welcoming (and how many croissants to get for breakfast)!

We have shifted the venue to the Wetlands Centre in Cockburn - a wonderful setting in Bibra Lake bushland.

On Sunday evening 3 March 6pm-8pm we will have a shared meal and speaker

We have extended the program on Monday 4 March (public holiday) 8:30 (croissant breakfast - please book), starting at 9:15am and finishing before 5pm.