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Alternative to Fruit Cage (2)

Posted in Allotment, Bargains/Free stuff, allotmenteering, gardening, organic, permaculture, self sufficiency, sustainability on July 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »

This involves trying to scare away our feathered friends with the use of a plastic owl. I’m sure I’ve seen these amongst other wildlife merchandise in my local pound shop, but if you get stuck Gullstop can flog you one. . .
Alternatives are plastic snakes or a good old fashioned Scarecrow. I never thought I [...]

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Time machines and judgement day

Posted in Mental health, antidepressant, anxiety, anxiety/panic, big pharma, bipolar, depression, mental illness, panic, psychiatry, psychosis, withdrawal on July 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I wrote this post a while ago, but decided not to publish it. I have changed my mind after seeing that people do stop by here and read my story now and again…
So this is part 10 (phew it was never meant to take this long!) of my account of what happened to me when [...]

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Alternative to Fruit Cage

Posted in Allotment, Bargains/Free stuff, Mental health, allotmenteering, gardening, organic, permaculture, self sufficiency, sustainability on July 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Quite simply erect some kinda bird bath.
Whilst flicking through a gardening book I found this interesting tip from Bob Flowerdew, a regular on Radio 4’s Gardeners Question Time and described as Britain’s leading organic gardener. He says that birds aren’t eating your fruit for the food, as they are low in calories. The poor little [...]

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Raspberry fools and fruity birds

Posted in Allotment, allotmenteering, gardening, organic, permaculture, self sufficiency, sustainability on July 8, 2008 | 8 Comments »

Some of you may have read with envious eyes that we were lucky enough to be donated a fruit cage.. We duly constructed the cage, and promised ourselves that when the fruits from our strawberries, raspberries, back-currants, white-currants and gooseberries began to swell, we would put the roof on quick smart. We observed it happening, [...]

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