Easy Ways to Save the World

June 29th, 2006

The Big Drippa

Just got my two Big Drippas from Gone Gardening. They are on sale so I got the two and have just finished setting them up in the greenhouse so they can provide water to my tomatoes. I think they should provide water slightly more efficiently than me and the watering can, particularly with the hot weather and drought talk! I was just going ...

June 27th, 2006

Car-less

Due to some unfortunate circumstances we are car-less at the moment. I'm sure once the insurance money comes through we will get another car but at the moment we have to manage without. There's a few things this has made me think about: When we do get another car I'll will be keeping more strictly to the speed limits. If I had been going any faster, I was under the ...

June 20th, 2006

DWT Hardy Hike

This walk takes place in an area me and the wife know quite well. It's actually an amazing bit of coastline where the walk takes place. Until we moved here I didn't realise how beautiful it is. I would say it is easy to compare it with somewhere like the Lake District or North Wales in ...

June 20th, 2006

WI Packaging Day of Action 20 June 2006

WI Packaging Day of Action 20 June 2006 - this completely passed me by today I just caught something about it on a local news this evening. The Womens Insitute are campaigning to reduce packaging and waste in general from supermarkets. It does bug me that you can buy organic produce from a supermarket but the produce is packed plastic that doesn't bio-degrade. Numbers of plastic bags that supermarkets ...