RIP Lily hen, taken by the evil cat. Our growling hen vanished last night, at the hands (or paws) of the resident semi-feral cat. The layer of the green eggs is gone, and she, and her eggs be sorely missed.
Poor little Sherafey, she has had a hard few weeks. Having finally found her a friend she got on with in the form of Mabel, she was bereaved after just a week here on the farm when we sadly lost Mabel to colic. The following day she ran through a wire fence and and...
In my quest to find the missing bits of the cooker, I decided to go through the many tins and boxes of old scrap out in the shed. Finding an old dried milk tin, I gave it a good shake (as you do), and decided it must be full of nuts and bolts. Imagine my surprise when...
Eco-DIY and Building Advice from the Eco Home Centre: Self build the way forward for communities?: This is a picture of the Wintles development in Shropshire that is based on the principles set out in ‘A Pattern Language’. The houses wer… read...
Eco, low impact, sustainable, off grid, communities – whatever label you attach to them, it certainly feels like the movement of ‘alternative’ communities is gathering pace, and at the same time, starting to attract people that even a few years ago...