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The Future of Work, Ownership and a Slower Life: Climate, Resilience and Life at Chaos Cottage Mornings are early here at Chaos Cottage, the dogs tumble out and the kettle sings, there is chaos from the moment we wake but it’s our casual, enjoyable chaos made up of excitable spaniels – it’s the start of another day and there’s breakfast, right?! Once the coffee and tea are made there’s time for a breath or two, and everything calms down. This year though, calm has come with w

We have always had dogs except for a brief time when we returned to the UK from New Zealand. Given the nature of our return (we had lost everything - house and belongings - in the Christchurch earthquakes of 2011) we were at a low point, to say the least. One of the hardest decisions we'd had to make was rehoming our pair of Golden Retrievers, George and Mildred. At the time Christchurch was still being rocked by aftershocks (more than 12 per day) and all of us were suffering

Chaos Cottage is a home, a smallholding and a way of life tucked away in a quiet part of British countryside.