Improvising is never a process of not planning anything. You make plans all the time – it’s impossible not to do so. Rather, impro involves growing comfortable with letting your plan go, again and again. So, our guiding principles in The Gathering would be the same…

I want to tell you a story.

It’s a story about stories. About their power. About how they can change the world, make things happen. But also, about different ways of telling them. And it is an invitation to you to join in the telling, to help with the shaping of a story that is only just beginning.

Bore Place, where Improbable is hoping to make our home, to build a creation centre, is a historic estate of 500 acres that includes an organic farm, group retreat accommodation, education programmes, and more, and it is all on ‘regeneratively managed’ land. That’s what it says on the website.

“Before Christmas I wrote a piece about Improbable moving towards a seasonal model of working. Now post-Xmas, but still in winter, I think we are, slowly, making some seasonal shifts… the emergent theme that it feels most pressing to write about is much more humble and fundamental: food.”

It is cold today. Frosty. My daughter (a big fan of glitter) was impressed by how the leaves on the ground sparkled silver in the light this morning. For the first time this winter it looks like winter out the window. Like how it’s meant to look, according to the Christmas cards.

There is a question we have been skirting around for a while now. A year in fact. Because it was a year ago that we initiated an open conversation about our quest for a home.