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The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast.

If you're new here, my name's Tim Nash,

and this is everybody's favourite contemplative Anna Robinson.

Hello.

Normally at this point, I'd ask you what you've been up to, Anna,

but I know exactly what you've been up to this time.

You've just done a three-day nomad retreat in Dorset, haven't you?

I have, yes.

Yeah, with David Benjamin Blow.

How'd it go?

It was really, really good.

Yeah, I had an idea about what I wanted it to look like and feel like, and it all came

together brilliantly, and the group, you know, just made it. It was fantastic. Any particular highlights?

So many highlights and I've been reading through the feedback forms from the people that came.

And yeah, I mean, the friary that we were staying in and who invited us, Lynn Frye, who's a beloved listener,

she invited us to be on their program and run what we called Gathering Embers.

And yes, her and her husband have lived in the community with the brothers, the Franciscan

brothers and the short-term people living there

and longer term. And they're just the most welcoming, hospitable, kind community. And we all just

felt really at home. They made us feel really at home. And it's just set in the most beautiful

valley there in Dorset, trees, lush, beautiful time of year to do it

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