Cluny: The coach party days
When the Foundation purchased Cluny Hill Hotel in autumn 1975 it came with one big caveat: to honor the coach parties who had booked the previous summer. Oh, boy! Peter was of course thoroughly game
When the Foundation purchased Cluny Hill Hotel in autumn 1975 it came with one big caveat: to honor the coach parties who had booked the previous summer. Oh, boy! Peter was of course thoroughly game
Along with twenty-six others I began my Orientation* on November 17th 1977, the Findhorn Foundation’s fifteenth birthday, in Cluny. So many people wanted to join that there was another group living and meeting at the
Newbold House Newbold blessing Newbold House is a five-minute walk from Cluny Hill. It was built in 1893 for a retired army colonel-cum-tea planter and his wife. It was converted into a hotel
ASSOCIATES IN THE 1980s From 1980-85 I did not live in the community. Along with Alan Jacobsen, the Brockbanks and the Ripleys, we were pioneers and were called the Associate Members, although in 1981 I
Cluny Renovation © Adriana Sjan Bijman,FF, 2000Neils Paulsen, doing the painting/decorating of the guest-room, Dec 2000 Peter asked me to supervise the renovation of Cluny. This was extraordinary, as I was six months
CARPET ATTUNEMENT Just before the 21st birthday of the Community in November 1983, my wife Bernadette and I, still full with the tremendous adventure of our Experience Week, were working as guests in Cluny. The
Cluny in the Summer of 1976 Forres, Cluny Hill College. photo ©Cluny archive Ah yes, I remember it well. On April 1st we were still wrapping up Cluny’s renovation for community use,
IN PERFECT TIMING The History of Cluny The history of Cluny includes, of course, Peter, Eileen and Dorothy managing it from 1957-62, but the Foundation’s history with it began on 17th November 1975, precisely 13
BEING A FAMILY AT CLUNY I first visited the community in 1979 and a year or two later returned with my two children for a family workshop at Newbold House. I decided to come for
CLUNY'S RENOVATIONS CREW I came to the community in January 1976 and was part of the renovations crew preparing Cluny for use as a hotel that summer, and then strictly as an educational (and light)