How then to summarise what, I think, taking personal responsibility involves? We each need to decide how we want to be, then be it. I suggest we are self-creating beings. Responsible for what we make of our lives. An existentialist, Quaker inspired, philosophical stance (Guignon, 2021; Sweet, 2025 & Bragg,2012.)

Out of all the things that I thought would challenge me in a new country, such as the accent or the weather, food was not one of them, but it surprised me.

Bags of cement, rusty poles, a rook of hoes, spades and shears; ivy growing through a crack in the door, grow bags,rolled-up carpet strips, a Helping Hand pick-up stick, plastic sheets and bamboo canes;