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Hillside: June 2011
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Diary of our environmentally friendly extension and renovation of a 100 year old cottage. Friday, 10 June 2011. Roundup or hard graft? Just cos it's the world's biggest selling herbicide. We certainly don't know the answer. So we'll ponder this a while longer whilst also waiting for the contractor's quotes to arrive. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I'm a BT Storyteller for London 2012! Ecocentric - eco chic style. Colour schemes for an eco interior. EcoCentric - live in eco style. Treenergy - wood pellets.
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Hillside: July 2011
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Diary of our environmentally friendly extension and renovation of a 100 year old cottage. Monday, 25 July 2011. We've started filling the baskets - looking good so far but it looks like we'll need more materials. Labels: gabion basket recycling. Monday, 4 July 2011. Pinching an idea from Chelsea (which is suitably apt as we keep finding bottles in the garden that were buried by previous residents of Hillside before refuse collections existed) we'll be using a combination of beer and wine bottles to face ...
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Hillside: Recycled drive
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Diary of our environmentally friendly extension and renovation of a 100 year old cottage. Thursday, 27 October 2011. There are still plenty of things on the To-do list at Hillside, but laying the drive is the last major hard-landscaping work at the front of the house, making it look complete and getting rid of the last area of mud that we've lived with since we moved back two years ago! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'm a BT Storyteller for London 2012! Ecocentric - eco chic style.
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Hillside: Clover
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Diary of our environmentally friendly extension and renovation of a 100 year old cottage. Saturday, 2 July 2011. Well the quotes are in, and we've decided to go with the cheapest and not to proceed with the contractor who was advocating the extensive use of roundup. Numerous 'net searches have given us reasons to doubt the 'safe' claims made to us. The downside is that we'll have plenty of weeding to do. So, just the small matter of calculating how many kg of seed we need before we get it ordered. Minist...
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Hillside: May 2011
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Diary of our environmentally friendly extension and renovation of a 100 year old cottage. Tuesday, 31 May 2011. The last few weeks have seen good progress with building the front garden wall. Whilst it can be as frustrating as a huge jigsaw puzzle, it is mostly very satisfying to see order and form emerging out of a random pile of rock. It's also great to start to see a defined boundary at the front of the garden, where it's been a blurred edge or tarmac and soil for months. Sunday, 15 May 2011. Okay, so...
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Hillside: Time flies
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Diary of our environmentally friendly extension and renovation of a 100 year old cottage. Tuesday, 24 January 2012. It's nearing the end of Jan 2012 already and I've realised I've not posted to this blog for a few months. Not that we've been short of news, after all the block paviour drive is now complete making the front of Hillside look like a normal house at last and not a building site. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'm a BT Storyteller for London 2012! Ecocentric - eco chic style.
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Hillside: October 2010
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Diary of our environmentally friendly extension and renovation of a 100 year old cottage. Tuesday, 26 October 2010. Good reason for a bonfire. Okay, so bonfires are not renowned for being particularly great for the environment. Infact there are many environmentalists out there (particularly some members of the AECB http:/ www.aecb.net/. To control the effect of leaf miner moths on our 100 year old Horse Chestnut tree. E branches long before November. There seems to be little that can be done to comba...
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Hillside: April 2011
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Diary of our environmentally friendly extension and renovation of a 100 year old cottage. Tuesday, 12 April 2011. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I'm a BT Storyteller for London 2012! Ecocentric - eco chic style. Colour schemes for an eco interior. EcoCentric - live in eco style. Nigel's Eco Store - eco stuff. Ethical Superstore - marvelous products from all over the world. Treenergy - wood pellets. John Brash - Cedar shingles and cladding. It's not easy being green. Okay, so who am I?
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Hillside: September 2010
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Diary of our environmentally friendly extension and renovation of a 100 year old cottage. Saturday, 18 September 2010. Elsewhere in the garden the runner beans are still producing at daunting rate, despite blanching and freezing a load of them and we've finally got a few French beans to enjoy as well. We've pulled the last of the beetroot but still have courgettes growing and leeks in the ground to be harvested later in the year. Thursday, 2 September 2010. A month of sunshine? We've had the solar therma...
