1. Knit more blankets from wool from Oxfam - bought loads as I need to keep donating for Haiti.
2. Brew my own wine - I love a drop but it's so expensive.
3. Grow some veg - I have space and lots of big pots.
4. Make more compost.
5.collect a lot more rain water and use it to flush the loo.
6. Don't turn the heating on again until it snows next time.
7. Sell of all the clutter on ebay - kind of recycling.
8. Get a water meter
9. make more preserve from foraged fruit
10. scrounge - ask for more of what people are throwing away - won't hurt!
Improving your Ish in 2010
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liskeardjane
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Re: Improving your Ish in 2010
Some bits are continuations of what I started last year:
Getting the house cleared out; selling stuff on ebay, donating or seeing what I can reuse instead of just throwing things out,
Get some herbs & veg grown,
Start making and growing more things to try and cut down on the amout I need to buy,
See about doing a bit of foraging,
My general thing will be to reduce my spending and the amout of things I buy, especialy 'unnecceceries'.
Getting the house cleared out; selling stuff on ebay, donating or seeing what I can reuse instead of just throwing things out,
Get some herbs & veg grown,
Start making and growing more things to try and cut down on the amout I need to buy,
See about doing a bit of foraging,
My general thing will be to reduce my spending and the amout of things I buy, especialy 'unnecceceries'.
Re: Improving your Ish in 2010
1. finish all the jobs i started last yer 
2. start all the jobs i meant to start last yer but did not
3 fit the first double glazed window in the place ( bathroom ) - funds permitting
4 do SOMETHING about the poor heating system -
what yet
5 start more jobs that wont be finished till 2011 - and beyond
6 try to be less cynical ( some hope )
and if any of this comes to pass - it will be a bleeding miracle - as something ELSE always seems to crop up ( like the kitchen floor collapsing requiring a complete refurb in there over Christmas
)
ho hum ................
2. start all the jobs i meant to start last yer but did not
3 fit the first double glazed window in the place ( bathroom ) - funds permitting
4 do SOMETHING about the poor heating system -
what yet 5 start more jobs that wont be finished till 2011 - and beyond
6 try to be less cynical ( some hope )
and if any of this comes to pass - it will be a bleeding miracle - as something ELSE always seems to crop up ( like the kitchen floor collapsing requiring a complete refurb in there over Christmas
) ho hum ................
the validity of ones ideas are best measured by the resistance they attract
and if enough people tell you are WRONG - do it ANYWAY !!
and if enough people tell you are WRONG - do it ANYWAY !!
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Flo
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Re: Improving your Ish in 2010
I do feel that drying my own herbs and making herbal teas are very small ish steps in comparison to the things that some of you would like to do.
But it's added to the freezing of allotment produce started last summer, the making of batches of meals from my own produce and the making of my first ever batch of marrow and ginger jam so it's sort of incremental. It's a gradual build up of ish. A little bit more every year helps along the road.
But it's added to the freezing of allotment produce started last summer, the making of batches of meals from my own produce and the making of my first ever batch of marrow and ginger jam so it's sort of incremental. It's a gradual build up of ish. A little bit more every year helps along the road.
Re: Improving your Ish in 2010
My Ish goals for the year include:
1. Experiment with making nut milks.
2. Build a stone oven in the garden.
3. Continue my experiment with not using shampoo, which I started at the beginning of the month.
4. Try to continue making as much of our own bread as possible by hand, our bread machine having gone to the Summerlands.
5. Look into rain water to flush our toilet.
There's also various ones to continue from last eyar, such as jam-making and allotment stuff.
1. Experiment with making nut milks.
2. Build a stone oven in the garden.
3. Continue my experiment with not using shampoo, which I started at the beginning of the month.
4. Try to continue making as much of our own bread as possible by hand, our bread machine having gone to the Summerlands.
5. Look into rain water to flush our toilet.
There's also various ones to continue from last eyar, such as jam-making and allotment stuff.
Liz