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Minimal resource cooler

With the sudden heat wave we have hit over the last few days I thought I would try out a new cooling device that is used in Africa to cool vegetables. It is simple to make and effective at cooling in even the hottest countries.

Simply take two clay pots, one 12in and one a […]

Time to start closing down for winter

With all the plants coming to the end of their yearly cycle and getting ready for the winter I’m out and about seeing what plants I can acquire ready for next year and tidying up the garden for the winter. Cutting back dead branches, removing branches from trees that are overgrown and emptying pots into […]

Thinking in a small box

I work in IT. One of the areas that I deal with is Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning. It is basically Survival and Prepping for companies and pretty much the same process goes into it. You identify potential threats, analyse them and if it is deemed significant you mitigate against it.

I was chairing […]

Processing pine trees for food

Over the weekend we were out again in the woods looking for nature’s bounty. The plan was for more acorns but this time we found an abundance of pine cones on the way so we filled our pail with those. Besides decoration the only thing I thought cones were good for was burning. So I […]