Another special tour due to demand
Due to demand I’m offering another special tour of the house with a copy of the new book, Sustainable House, so the lessons learnt here over the last 14 years can be looked at and discussed on site. It’s at 11 am to 12 noon, Saturday 30 October. For information and bookings: Special tours of Sydney’s Sustainable House – 23, 30 Oct Read More
Appropos beauty
Of beauty. Looking south to Bronte Let us consider this day and some of what it offered. I went to Bronte to swim, thence to sit and watch, thence to walk up to Mackenzie Bay (the bay just south of Bondi). From shore to sea The photos are taken sitting just down from the coast walk path. There’s Mozart, Schubert, silence of ages, Beethoven’s last quartets, surging Bach, a whole mighty orchestral magic. Free for the looking, hearing... Read More
Can you put plastic bags in compost?
Not ordinary plastic but some - that is, SOME, only. (I’ve used some bags which do not decay despite their labelling assertions.) But. Council officer, Helen Bradley said this to me: ” . . . biodegradable bags do take longer and start by breaking down into pieces and breakdown over a period of time. If they can empty the bag and then just tear it up a bit it will break down quicker. As long as there’s not massive quantities of... Read More
Measures of happines
On this so sweetly beautiful day, another one where Earth sings out triumphantly, “look at me, look at me”, and when I’ve just come back in from watering my garden (with my recycled sewage) to this computer screen, my thoughts have turned to the question, “Why do I feel still, easy and . . . dare I say it, ‘happy’?” Part of the reason I’ve asked it is that on my way back to the house a friend, Nathan,... Read More
Gardening as a frolic
At the end of the morning: L to R: Xavier, Norman, Colin, Charles and potato sacks New mulch crate, Rose St Well, such a frolic in the gentle, caressing rain this morning. About ten or more of us. We found a new mulch crate that Kris alerted me to. I went with John and together we took it to Rose street and half-filled it with branches and things which won’t compost. The photos shows it; lovely, almost stylish (?) and made for the site.... Read More
