City living Old Style?

ubamother

Fire Fox - what rats don't eat they'll wee on - be warned!

juliapenguin

ubamother wrote: »

Fire Fox - what rats don't eat they'll wee on - be warned!

Yikes.... That's enough to put you off your herb salad....

juliapenguin

It's the end of my latest teaching term tomorrow, and the new course I'm teaching from Monday isn't as demanding, so I'm going to have a Return to Old Style Campaign: The City Living Version... I'm going to get a meal plan sorted out and try to mend my wasteful ways.

ceridwen

Fire_Fox wrote: »

How are the Old Style city living posse? I went out last night to meet some of the Transition Bradford group, who are a great bunch. :T Received advice on a spot of guerilla gardening on our building's flat roof - thinking of starting with a few herbs ... need to be growing something that rats won't eat so any ideas welcome!

Hi Fire Fox

Good luck with the guerrilla gardening - theres a couple of books out now specifically on this and I presume you've been told about the website specifically on this - I've got a link to it on my "favourite websites" listed on the sidebanner on my blog belowmentioned.

Re the rats - perhaps you could put a query about what to do about them over on the Gardening Board on MSE?

Re rooftop foodgrowing - thats a thing I think we need to be looking towards - so its one of the topics that I have put various "posts" up about - with links to useful websites on this on one of my blogs:

http://mygardeningnotes.blogspot.com/

Certainly flat roofs are very much part of the "emulate Cuba - and grow food anywhere/everywhere ethos".

There is a recent blog I've added to my blogroll on that of the experiments a woman is just starting on a flat roof at her workplace (SophosVanRoof Garden).

Tashja

Another Manchester person. DH works in Lincon Sq and I start in a new job on Monday on Portland Street !!

We live just outside the city centre though but looks like we are going to be spending most of our time there lol

T xx

Slinky_Malinky

For the small gap at the side of your fridge - would something like this fit?

http://www.jdwilliams.co.uk/shop/search/window/show.action?searchString=space+maker&categoryLpgUid=10966344&Search=Search&fromSearchForm=true

...I was thinking maybe the smaller cube style ones on top of each other? Not very smart but very pratical and you could always fit some fabric across the front to hide the stuff stored there. I have ordered some of these for an upstairs cupboard in my house, hoping it will help me organise my mountain of clutter.

Fire_Fox

My Old Style city life is being turned on it's head by the imminent arrival of my gorgeous new man Noah! I am £150 lighter of pocket and only halfway to buying all the equipment I need to keep an indoor cat happy and healthy. :rolleyes: The Grocery Challenge has been scuppered by the price of decent pet food (refuse to support Nestle or Mars), although I have managed to secure a lot of free samples!

rockie4

juliapenguin wrote: »

There's some recycling bins on Oxford Road under the A57 bridge, so I try to take a few bits every time I walk past on my way to work. I hate throwing out cardboard and plastic, though.

Do any Mancunians know where I could recycle card and plastic? I'm right near Oxford Road station.

Aren't there recycling bins dotted around the MMU campus? I work at the uni and there are bins all over the place.........bit far for you to walk though!:D

juliapenguin

Tashja wrote: »

Another Manchester person. DH works in Lincon Sq and I start in a new job on Monday on Portland Street !!

We live just outside the city centre though but looks like we are going to be spending most of our time there lol

T xx

Hello! I've been off the OS board for a while dealing with personal stuff but I'm back now and still keen to set up some sort of Manchester OS meet-up if anyone's interested....

juliapenguin

rockie4 wrote: »

Aren't there recycling bins dotted around the MMU campus? I work at the uni and there are bins all over the place.........bit far for you to walk though!:D

I work there too!!!! I'm in Mabel Tylecote on the All Saints Campus. What do you do?