Black Mysterious Tea
Toddlers, bushcraft, outdoors & eco-friendly stuff
Hot Compost – We have finally used some!
06 days ago
by Ed
in Hot-composting
Well, it has been over a year, but we have at last used some of the compost we have been making. Sadly we used it to part fill the pot for a small tree we have placed over Vader (our cats) grave; he was hit by a car.
Vader isn’t in the pot, he’s buried in the garden but we wanted something to sit [...]
Hot compost – one year on
11 month ago
Well it’s been about one year since we started hot composting with our Green Johanna, and we have yet to get any compost from it, but then again we have yet to fill it (as of today it is only ¾ full)!
We set out to reduce our waste to landfill, and we have; we now throw out between ¼ and ½ a bag of [...]
Car stuff
01 month ago
by Ed
in Automotive
I wrote lots last year about making my home more eco-friendly, but I’ve said nothing about my car, which I have to change for two reasons;
Your car forms one of the largest out-goings per month for any family, especially due to fuel prices
I have spent the last few months working flat-out on my [...]
Walk in the woods
01 month ago
For our (me and Bella) first walk in the woods this year I thought Bella could control the camera and take photo’s of whatever she found interesting. I may have helped to hold it but the gallery of images below were all taken by Bella (except for the bottles).
We started looking at mole hills, and [...]
Deer
01 month ago
by Ed
in Childrens Games
For my first post of the new year I thought I’d add a photo Bella took today at the Chestnut Centre, Chapel-en-le-Frith, plus a few others of the deer I took.
The centre also has lots of otters, foxes and wild birds from all over the world, and we were very glad it was open on New Years day (we [...]
Child-manufactured Firesteel
01 month ago
First of all I should say that this post was written on the 30th of November and then scheduled for publication today, so sorry if this post seems to have missed out on some major planetary event (such as a zombie invasion or early 2012 apocalypse). If those things have happened then I am very [...]
Freecycle to save energy
02 months ago
by Ed
in Uncategorized
If I’m honest the title of this post was chosen to try and generate some traffic…. and because I had no idea what title to use. We have saved lots of energy in the last year, but we are committed to reducing our energy use further.
The two biggest electricity consumers in our home are our portable [...]
Swampost 3; the death of Swampost (December 2011 update)
02 months ago
The woes of the last few months (Swampost posts 1 and 2) seem to be over, the digging out of the pile and addition of plenty of leaves has stopped the bad smell and the pile, whilst still wet, is nowhere near wet enough to have bubbles forming in it (as a few months ago when bubbles were forming on [...]
Anniversary Gift
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With the choice of featured image combined with post title I’m sure this will generate some site traffic (if not a few complaints!), but this isn’t an account of the activities of a serial killer (and the extra site traffic disappears) but all about how I made a bushcraft knife for my wife as an [...]
Chutney update
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After a little over a month I have tried the Windfall Chutney I made at the start of October, in fact we had a little chutney competition on our last trip to The Lakes, and it is a very nice, mild, fruity chutney (didn’t win, that was Gary’s one)! I only hope that I managed to remember the recipe [...]