A strange realisation hit just recently. It’s November! Yes I know it’s not that great a realisation! In fact as realisations go it’s pretty bloody ordinary since November happens in a fairly predictable manner every year. What is a special though is that in October 2012 we started doing what we called “a year of…
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Closing the Circle
One of the things that has been a real challenge is dairy and I’m sorry to say that we still haven’t worked it out. In my increasing role with Transition Darebin one of the things that I plan on doing is thinking about how we can engage with the local business community. In my mind…
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I think our year of treading lightly is maturing. We seem to be spending more time thinking about how to engage, support and enthuse others than doing things ourselves. Not that I’ve run out of ideas yet. I’ve just started drawing (yet another) master plan for the garden. This time round, and this is a…
Read MoreFood is Free
I normally try to avoid just re-posting from other places half because I think it’s a little lazy and half because I’m still not sure what blog etiquette is and I don’t like upsetting people. That said I think this needs to be posted as is (and my thanks to reclaim the curb for putting…
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Our garage is gradually falling over. I would love to believe that it’s just as a by product of it being generally old and of brick construction susceptible to the shifting of soil due to saturation and then dehydration. But the truth I suspect (at least partially) is that it’s my doing. A couple of…
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Despite the temperature pushing the point at which there was a good chance that one of our children may well have spontaneously burst into flames we still thought it would be worth heading into the Melbourne Sustainable Living Festival. In an ironic twist the train company had decided on this of all weeks to do…
Read MoreThank you Masters
In looking to finish my wicking beds I’ve needed to go and buy some stuff that has neccessitated me going to a larger hardware store than usual. This shopping task has taken me through two very different experiences. The first was at a medium-sized local hardware store where one of the staff asked straight away whether I…
Read MoreI wished you a Merry Christmas
Christmas and decorations have notoriously been a bugbear from me! Each year for some time now I battle with the tree-or-not-to-tree question. I gave away the pine tree concept years ago, but have until 2012 been responsible for the slow death of several native Christmas trees, including my last sacrifice – a Woollamia pine. No…
Read MoreThneeds and Gardens
The last couple of posts seem to have gone all broad and big picture on me so back to the core purpose of this blog which is to document what we are actually doing. Christmas has come and gone and I’ve got to say that this one didn’t bug me as much as normal. I’ll…
Read MoreLocavorism
I’ll admit this is a test at the very bounds of my technical skills, so if it all falls in a heap then my many apologies. One of the aims of writing this blog was to let people know what we were doing but also to share information so that eating and shopping locally becomes…
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A Life of Treading Lightly 