but for how long?
It could be one of many walks from home to the shop across the Country. Living on the edge of a Town gives you the benefits of both world’s; easy access to Shopping Centres and easy access to the Country.
Being an unusually nice morning, I thought I’d take a stroll to the […]

I love just about every wild bird. Seeing them in my front garden from the Kitchen window never ceases to amaze me what clever and ‘cred’ these creatures are.
We’ve got Woodpeckers, Chaffinch’s, Ti.t’s, the occasional Bullfinch, Heron’s, just about everything that flies in this part of Kent.
But one bird you can be sure of giving […]

Every year about this time I set about collecting wood for the Rayburn and Living Room fires. It’s not far to go, a small wood sits at the side of the field at the bottom of the Lane. Hardly anyone ventures in it, mainly because they have no reason to!
So along comes a couple […]

I’ve been doing a bit of reading around and figured out the following on water useage around the home - and my calculations seem to go along with the ‘official’.
If a household has two people living in it, here’s the weekly toll…
3 baths each per week - 420 lit
2 Showers each - 140 […]

I remember visiting my birth town of Sevenoaks not long after the Great Storm of 1987 when hurricane winds devastated many parts of Kent.
Trees came down, roofs, fences were lost and six of the seven oaks on Sevenoaks Vine Cricket Ground came down and made international headlines when the town was reduced to ‘Oneoaks’.
I drove […]

There’s the old saying ‘Not in my backyard’ and I guess the same would partly apply to me if I were ever confronted with the building of a railway line or motorway at the back of my house. But it seems to me there are two sets of rules about road and rail with local […]

I’ve just finished watching the repeat of the TV series ‘It’s not easy being Green’ in which the Strawbridge family show us their skills of transferring themselves to an almost 100% green existance.
It’s the second time I’ve watched it, finding it just as interesting as the first time around and I certainly take my hat […]