Recycling glasses If there’s one thing I haven’t needed for quite some time it’s sunglasses. So today I took another opportunity to declutter and make sure resources are being used to their highest capacity, by sorting through all my sunglasses and reading glasses and only keeping what I really need. Read more…
Recycling pens and markers It wasn’t until Sue started talking to me at Landcare on Saturday that I began to think about all the old markers and pens lying around the house. When my kids left home, their old pens and textas didn’t. After starting A Year in a Day Read more…
The world’s deadliest animal Do you know what the deadliest animal on earth is? … it’s the mosquito! Over the last ten years the increase in mosquito-borne diseases has increased significantly in Australia and is expected to continue. We are home to over 300 varieties of mosquito but there are Read more…
Public Health Alert for Japanese encephalitis and other mosquito-borne viruses Yesterday I read that the mosquito-borne virus Japanese encephalitis has been declared an issue of national significance, with eight cases and one death recorded in the last month. Cases are being detected in NSW, Victoria and Queensland. These are the Read more…
If there’s one thing that’s thriving in this weather it’s fungi, and the experiment I started a few days ago to grow oyster mushrooms on recycled paper is working so well that today I felt emboldened to feed my first book to the spawn. Above: This is the first five Read more…
I just LOVE local and so does Blue Mountains City Council with its fabulous LOVE LOCAL campaign that includes recipes, videos and fascinating information about our local businesses, as well as a Business Directory so you can LOVE local too. It was such a treat, despite this wet and soggy Read more…
Today I registered my protest against war by joining the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). Their newly released edition of the Don’t Bank on the Bomb Hall of Fame shows the 36 banks, insurers and pension funds that comprehensively exclude all nuclear weapon producers. I then Read more…
Cruizin’ and Bluesin’ to tackle my Mood and the Black Mould! The concept of Planetary Health highlights how the degradation of our natural environment is now negatively impacting human health. Climate Change is clearly starting to affect our physical and mental health, and this rain and flooding are certainly depressing. Read more…
Cabbage and Pumpkin Leaf Kimchi With all this rain lots of pumpkin plants have sprouted out of our compost and are invading the garden, but there’s so little sun that I suspect we’ll be lucky to get any ripe pumpkins before winter. One way to boost the growth of pumpkins Read more…
Between the motion and the act falls the shadow I used to have a secondhand bookshop and for many years I’ve had a dream – to grow oyster mushrooms out of my thousands of old books that no one will ever be interested in reading. Merlin Sheldrake, the author of Read more…
Saturday Night Fever! It’s been a long long time since I used to get upset if I was home alone on a Saturday night. But I remember it vividly and my heart goes out to all the young people experiencing that isolation and disappointment during the pandemic. My heart also Read more…