Category Archives: Sustainable Future

Is that really sustainable?

A random thought more than anything else – I’ve been pondering about sustainable behaviour and the like lately (unrelated to anything else, just pondering). The question comes about when you look at the use of oil, for example in motoring, … Continue reading

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Oils ain’t oils

When it comes to flooring, we had the choice of leaving the carpet in place (but it was later discovered to be rotted, black in areas), laying new flooring over the old, or polishing up the old. The choice to … Continue reading

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The tree

We have a tree in the back left of our place, the tree has a short trunk, but branches that expand nearly the full 15m of the block. A week or so ago, we were wondering where the chook pen … Continue reading

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Staples, staples, staples…

We lifted up the carpet in our hallway first. My expectation was that the floor boards outside the bathroom would be wet, soaked, water stains visible – even possibly rotted around the edges. Not so – they actually are pretty … Continue reading

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Effective Pest Control

We found our first pest today. It was eating the leaves on the apple trees. I noted it yesterday after seeing the leaves had a few holes and signs of being incomplete, nothing was on them, nothing in the base … Continue reading

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Forest of Foods

.. in the making. My partner bought some interesting points to me recently – this article is one of the few showing the benefits of growing and maintaining your own fruit and vegetables. The other angle is pesticides, sure, you … Continue reading

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