Posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
We have just started blogging again after a break of four months. Upon our return we checked our handy wordpress stats and we were delighted to see that many people were still visiting our blog. We were pleased but perplexed. So we have written a short survey to find out a bit more about the [...]
Posted in Allotment, Mental health, allotmenteering, compost, gardening, horticultural therapy, self sufficiency on January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As the excitement mounts with spring approaching, we have been thinking about how happy gardening makes us feel. It seems that we’re not the only ones to have noticed this……
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There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. [...]
Posted in Allotment, Mental health, allotmenteering, gardening, horticultural therapy on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
We have noticed that the favourite past on this blog by far is entitled Naked Gardeners. In the naive hope that people are interested in this subject as a form of personal freedom and liberation, we have scoured the internet to provide you with more information.
May 3 2008 sees the fourth annual ‘World Naked [...]
Posted in Mental health, anxiety, anxiety/panic, big pharma, bipolar, depression, horticultural therapy, mania, mental illness, psychiatry, psychosis, withdrawal on January 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is my story of severe effexor withdrawal. I have already written much about how I started to take effexor and the consequences of this. Links for the first ‘chapters’ can be found on the ‘mental health story page’.
After a three month withdrawal from effexor I became acutely psychotic and manic and ended up [...]
Posted in Allotment, allotmenteering, compost, gardening, rain on January 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We have decided to gingerly stick our heads up into the blogosphere again. It’s just that we’ve both been very busy, trying to learn more detail and technicalities about our craft. We have been wading and trudging through the dreaded Royal Horticultural Society 3 course.
We have always been fans of compost and soil, sniffing and smelling it, as [...]
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