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Given that this Sunday is Mothering Sunday, I thought you might enjoy this touching tribute to the mothers in our lives. Might even bring a lump to the throat and a small tear to the corner of your eye, as the hero of the ‘No Fly’ movement talks candidly and beautifully about mums. Check out the shorts.
Here is a fantastic story from Transition Southampton. How about a city-wide local currency, with each note adorned by well-known local-people-made-good? The proposed Southampton Pound would feature Benny Hill, Matt le Tissier and Craig David. Sounds like a great idea to me… we were musing here today about towns and cities running some kind of a process (a bit like Walkers Crisps daft one at the moment about which ridiculous new flavour people prefer) to get people to choose who they want on their notes. Personally I am waiting for the Manchester Pound, George Best on the £5 note, Joy Division on the £10, Bernard Cribbins on the £20 and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the £50… Anyway, here is the full newspiece on the story…
Today at 2.15pm on BBC Radio 4 is a play called ‘Getting to Zero‘, where George Monbiot, Peter Harper and Paul Allen help a fictional family to reduce their emissions to zero within 6 weeks. It was written by a member of Transition Bro Ddyfi and should definitely be worth a listen.
A couple of weeks ago I was in London, and I visited Coin Street Community Builders (CSCB) on the South Bank. CSCB are a fascinating initiative, one that can teach a great deal to Transition Initiatives. For me, a Transition initiative, once it has created its EDAP, needs to morph, and become in effect, a relocalisation agency, a developer, a housing association, a bank. CSCB have done many of these things, and their experience is invaluable.
How to Grow More Vegetables: and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine. John Jeavons. 10 Speed Press.
This is not a new book, but given that it is the time of year when your thoughts may well be turning to gardening, I thought it might be useful for me to wax lyrical about what might lay claim to being one of the greatest gardening books of all time. ‘How to Grow More Vegetables’ wears its heart firmly on its sleeve, and sets out to teach you to do exactly what the title suggests. It has been my gardening bible for the last 10 years, and as you can see (left), my copy is well loved, covered in muddy thumbprints, having regularly accompanied me into the garden.
