Easy Ways to Save the World

May 4th, 2008

Compost Awareness Week May 4th - May 10th

If you read this site regularly you will know that compost is one of my favourite subjects. Next week is compost awareness week running from the 4th to the 10th of May. There are events going on all over the country and it is being supported by celebrity gardener Charlie Dimmock. In my opinion you can never have too much compost so if you ...

April 8th, 2008

Onions in the ground

I planted my onions over the weekend. It was a strange day as in the morning it snowed and then the sun came out. It was a really nice day once the sun had come out and I spent about 3 happy hours pottering about in the garden dodging rain showers admittedly but enjoying the sun when it came out. I planted some salad crops, some ...

November 2nd, 2007

Love Food Hate Waste

Apparently we waste up to a third of all food bought in the country. This campaign gives ideas ideas on how to reduce this waste. It has recipes, meal planners and tips on understand sell by and sell by dates. I have to admit we do waste food in our house hopefully it's not a third of a ...

October 25th, 2007

Busy with baby

Been a busy few weeks. My wife has gone back to work after her maternity leave and my daughter has started nursery. This adds lots to our daily routine but I think we are actually settling into one now. I have also been ill with a cold(manflu according to the wife!). Anyway I was watching Gardeners World a few weeks ago and Monty Don explained the ins and out's of ...

April 27th, 2007

Compost Awareness Week - Sunday 6th to Saturday 12th May 2007

Something that I think we all should be doing. It's easy once you have the composting bin. With all this talk about wasting food and reducing the waste going to landfill and the length of time between waste collections this is ...

October 8th, 2006

Bugged bins etc

I watched Real Story this week on the BBC. It was mainly about how local councils and people are dealing with their new recycling collections. Many people seem to think that it 's been a complete disaster. I think it is something that need to be done however painful. I'm sure if the same people who were shown complaining about the new systems found out that the council was ...

September 8th, 2006

New recycling system in Bournemouth

Our new recycling system is apparently now up and running - the main problem for me at the moment is I keep forgetting to put the bins out and that the 'big' bin that is used for the recycled stuff is almost full already and we haven't even put it out yet. Once we get sorted it out will make our lives a lot easier as will not having ...

December 5th, 2005

A Good Life

Bought this book over the weekend. It’s pretty interesting. Apparently the average woman ingests 1kg of lipstick over the course of her life. This book covers virtually everything to do with leading a ‘good life’ – apart from perhaps religion – I don’t think it misses much there though! It does’nt say anything is righ or wrong just tries to give you ...

July 3rd, 2005

Why compost?

You can reduce your household waste by 20%. Composting could probably reduce you spend on buying compost from garden centers. Many local councils in the UK provide a service where you can buy a composting bin at a reduce price - this can be any where from £5 to £15. To find out whether you council does this check out the council website - or try googling something like ...