See the light.....

If you live in the UK and you haven't heard about this already, please sign up for the Lighter Later campaign, it will give us more light for every day of the year (unless you are always an early bird) and just seems like such a logical step towards saving electriciy and opening ourselves up to a lighter future ........

PS please spread this beyond your green network and let everyone who ever has contact with you know about it Cheers

New Awakenings

Soooooooo it's been toooooo tooooooo long since I posted here and any of you who were reading me have probably disappeared off to do your own saving of the planet by now.... which is not such a bad thing. Anyhow, I'm back from a long cold winter (not that we can definitely count it as over in these parts, but I'm optimistic) and thinking about getting out onto the alottment, into the garden and starting the growing season off with a good amount of wonderful homemade compost and digging power.

I've been reading a great book called The Edible Garden (it's on my book list over there on the right) which pointed me in the direction of a fabulous website "Punk Rock Permaculture"..... lots about Haiti on it at the moment and if you dig into the archive you'll find loads of fascinating stuff. We're also considering doing some No Dig gardening in some builders bags we've managed to rescue from the garbage heap. Empty builders bags seem to be left around all over the place and they make great, cheap, low effort raised beds. There is a great website on no dig gardening here and a fab page on how to layer stuff to make it. When you're the mum or dad of a busy family this looks like the way to go to me.

I hope you're all having your own new awakenings and are fresh out of hibernation to start a new spring. Looking forward to keeping y'all up to date with my gardening endeavours. Ciao for now.

I got a stunning email from Friends of the Earth today identifying how they will effect the elections.... here's a link to their offering. It's so bad it looks like a joke. If I was going on this alone, I'd say the Earth has no Friends and is doomed. Thankfully I know better. Hmmmmm elections though, nowhere to turn if you're green in this country.