At last my new Business cards have arrived and they look very good also a slight breakthrough in the website . At work a new employee happens to be a web  and IT specialist and says he will get a page up for me   My little green venture starts to move in a new direction of part time work any relief from the day to day hassle of sales.

since last i wrote, well, what has happened. The major commitment here would be our investment in a brand new Clearview pioneer 400  , and WOW this little metal box is the most amazing unit ive ever used.
From being five ive always had a real fire usually coal in the family, but i must say the heat this stove kicks out is beyond anything ive ever known, Just think a simple walk in the woods with a bag can gather enough FREE fuel for a week,not bad . My gas bills have almost gone except for a little hob cooking, even in cooking the electric oven element broke and we didn't replace and ive got to say we very rarely miss it.
we have suffered set backs too,  free solar power companies just keep giving various excuses, and with FITS dropping in value such companies must be on the verge of collapse in the market place. Food production also hit snags , the weather all but stopped this years crops , only a few new potatoes and some hardy onions tuffed it out.
 Ive also decided that my skills need to be passed on , so, im setting up a small gardening business called , you guest it  Greener life or bust. My aim to advise and help people with their basic garden work , lawns bushes small trees , in an ethical manner. ill try to recycle what i can, compost what i can and in some cases burn on our stove, if the latter  happens the timber will be part of my payment . Ill use our low carbon car that's if my bike and a trailer ( not purchased yet) cant be used.  So i thought ill buy a web domain  and so i did www.greenerlifeorbust.co.uk . But i cant work out how to use it with free web hosting sites or to use this blogg as my site, why is everything so complicated for us older ones who prefer paper ive got this domain for 2yrs that may be enough time for me to work it all out.

Sorry i havnt written much recently but hopefully i should change all that next week as im going to b stuck in bed after an operation for quite a while, i have lots to talk about including a major purchase and green commitment

As usual its been a while since ive been here and to be honest there isnt much to write yet, yet being the appropriate word, as tomorrow the first major step and investment to a greener life takes place .Our useless living flame gas fire gets removed ready for the install of our nice new Clearview 400 stove later in the week, and got to admit , with the weather as it is we may even get some use out of it.
One of the things im most looking forward to is the building of a log pile , strange i know but a log pile outside shows everyone you do care, you are trying to make a difference. This in turn may prompt questions and hopefully someone else may take it onboard thereby increasing my green effect

litter or recycling

Its been a while since my last blog but hey there has been much happening , including a spell of poor health but im back.As i was driving this morning in my so called greener car to drop off the family at school all at the same place i may add, i could not help but notice all the plastic bottles paper etc all over the roads verges and footpaths.all due to either poor filling of the recycle bin or just plain bad loading of the lorry, which i must admit seems to be the case, this also brought to mind my recent visit to a little village called Longwick , yes everything is divided , paper, bottles compostables and landfill, but in open little boxes, nett effect  open light articles blowing freely up and down the road, i ask the question again is this green or just a litter that's makes people feel better because they are doing their bit ?
On a more personal note all my new potato's are close to planting and seeds are in pots waiting to germinate including Portuguese greens which last 9 yrs and stand over a metre tall. My waste is still on the decrease, my landfill bin is only half full after 2 weeks and recycle bin looks on the way to half full after 4 weeks, not bad going with a family of 4.  Hopefully the log burner will soon be on its way too with the money almost here  from a road compensation scheme,, at least a new road will do some good even if it is to help my family become a little more efficient and less reliant on gas for heating. hopefully there will be more to write tomorrow .

inspirational Malmo !

Returned for a little passage, spurred on after watching a programme on discovery Science .Was all about we should not just be looking for renewable resources but multiples that act together, as not one alone will be successful .There were the non blade wind turbines that worked well in an urban environment , also a great piece on Malmo in Sweden where one area produces all the power it uses with solar and wind the buildings were inspirational with huge solar fins etc.as they said , if it can work there where sunlight is low in quantity it should work everywhere.This brought me back to an earlier post, even more solar roof panels are springing up , more each week in fact, just wish i could afford them as they are still over priced for the people who need them rather than using then as a cash investment.
Actually got round to making my own chutneys last night and successful they were too not only did i use reduced price tomatoes but used jars that i would normally have just thrown away. This does show yet again in the fact that my landfill bin is only half full after two weeks , before the new year it would have been full and with overflow into other peoples bins, i must be doing something right.

you know when its cold

Although not cold enough to now the weather has taken a chill with two hard frosts lately.These events are shown well  the compost bin,and with a family of 4 this can cause problems.On average we put at least half a carrier bag of compostables in the bin and the cold has slowed its workings down by quite a bit , even the worms have gone down into the warmer parts. We have a deliberation,get another composter on the go or cut down on our waste output, and as this stuff we compost is veg peelings etc. this is not what we want to do.If i turn the contents will the lower parts cool too much?  I will have to consult the oracle .