Posted in being greener, general wittering, grow your own food, house and home, self-sufficiency, vegetables on 10 May 2008 | No Comments »
very hot here today - which actually got in the way a tad, of all the things I wanted to get done - as wilting was not on the list! I burn so easily that I mostly avoid the mid day sun.. perhaps I should take to siestas!
By 4 it was just perfect - and [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, general wittering, house and home on 9 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have mentioned a few times that we have too much lawn.. despite digging lots of it up for veg patches.. and plan to bring the fruit garden into the lawn next year.. but still we face the irony of cutting the grass being the only time we use motorised machinery to do any work [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, grow your own food, house and home, make it yourself, self-sufficiency on 2 May 2008 | No Comments »
Now have a water butt set up for the greenhouse. Up until now, we have been collecting rainwater.. but not in the right place. We have a 400 gallon ex-juice container collecting off the old piggery, but to get water to the greenhouse means filling up two watering cans, walking up the lane, up the [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, general wittering, house and home, self-sufficiency, tagged solar energy on 29 April 2008 | No Comments »
I remember my mum once telling a visitor that the reason they were insulating the loft was because the garden was falling into the river.
It’s logical really - let me explain. My parents had chosen to buy a house with problems, and a large garden, rather than a perfect house with no garden. ( See? it [...]
Posted in being greener, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, tagged bgg, big green gathering on 18 March 2008 | 3 Comments »
which will be no loss to me. I am, of course, biased, narky even, due to being excluded. more on that later.
If you are at all interested in the BGG (the festival, not the activity going on in my pond!) then you will probably know that it hit financial trouble. The festival had to pay [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, make it yourself, tagged knitting, wool, yarn on 16 March 2008 | No Comments »
I have finally undone the cardi that I bought from the charity shop. 2150g of wool - I would guess aran weight, but have yet to assess that.
I wound it all into balls, but from there, after a weigh in (helps judge what I can make from it) I have wound it into skeins, to [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, make it yourself, tagged knitting, socks on 11 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of my favourite hobbies is starting knitting projects. I love it.. the new yarn.. the deciding what to make.. casting on..seeing how it knits up. Problem is, I’m not always great at finishing projects.
I have completed lots of things.. but my home is littered with the remains of UFOs (unfinished objects) , some of [...]
Posted in being greener, grow your own food, livestock, pigs, recipes, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables, tagged pigs, sheep, vegetables on 8 March 2008 | 4 Comments »
Managed to squeeze a fair bit of outdoor work in today, before the bad weather arrived. Pulled lots of nettles. as we wont spray them, and scything them only cuts them down, the only way to hope to remove them is to pull them up, by hand, roots and all. I know - don’t tell [...]
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