How to keep the kitchen waste bucket nice and fresh

My friend Rach (already totally domesticated) has discovered that if you line the kitchen waste bucket with a few sheets of old newspaper then the bucket itself stays nice and fresh unlike my slimy stinky bucket which is still recovering from me forgetting to empty it for a few days.

Just take the newspaper [...]

How to Freecycle your things instead of throwing them out

I was incensed today from just a quick 5 minute visit to the local recycling centre in our new Worcestershire home town. We just had a few lager cans,bottles and some cardboard to recycle and I didn’t want it hanging around the house so my daughter and I went to get rid [...]

How to make and maintain a compost heap

A lack of landfill space is reaching a crisis situation. By composting our own garden and kitchen waste we are each able to do our bit towards reducing the amount of landfill space needed for refuse. We’ve never had a garden as big as the one we now have. When we lived in London we [...]

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