The Bath Crafting Cranny

Earth-friendly mental floss

What a fabulous idea! 

The great outdoors...

I was very pleased to see that Bath's Tim Gatfield has a honourable mention in the last week's Observer! Great stuff. Read more about Cherry Wood project here...

On an outdoor note: we've been expanding our allotment this weekend! I've been playing with the tools I got for my birthday! You can see our allotment progress here (soon to be updated with photos from our summer glut..!). I won't post too much about our 10 rods of land up here...far better to leave it to the Wiltshire experts: My Tiny Plot and Veg-plotting.

Compost Week!

How great is it to throw things in a heap and leave them...and have them turn into something useful?

I wouldn't actually know: nine months of dedicated composting has produced only a gloopy mess with flies galore and the occasional rat. Damn. I’ve been carefully cutting up paper and grass to try and balance the ‘green’ items with ‘brown’…but have yet to notice a transformation (took me months to work out that green grass is categorized as 'brown'!). Not to dampen the composting-spirits…but now I understand why there are entire books written on the topic of 'how to compost'. Hopefully the warm weather will help create wonderful earthy compost…