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Welcome to The Compost Bin, which contains my musings on my life. I live in Herefordshire with my husband and 11 year old daughter. We have 4 acres of land which contains a woodland, small orchard, garden and veg plot. We grow our own organic fruit and veg and make lots of cider, wine, jam and chutney. We share our lives with 16 Chickens, 3 Cats, 4 Guinea Pig and assorted wildlife!

I am a freelance Forest School Leader and Environmental Educator so work with both adults and children on all sorts of things. I also volunteer as a Master Composter and Master Gardener, helping people make compost and grow veg.

So, I might talk about; what we have been doing on our patch of land and in our wood, my work, the chickens and their funny ways, how to grow veg, the fun things our cats get up to, self sufficiency and what it actually means, more general environmental issues, composting, making various crafty stuff, happy and sad times here, living a slower, more hand made, frugal lifestyle, making and mending and re-using and re-cycling stuff, living more lightly on the Earth and my views on life in general.

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Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Archaeology!

Just back from day out in Hereford with Compostgirl, went to an Archaeology event at the Museum Resource and Learning Centre, which was having a Bronze Age Bonanza day from 11 until 3 ..we made a Beaker pot, a Lunula necklace ( a gold "c" shape torc) did some excavating ( with real finds!) some recording, woad tattoos, flint knapping and fire lighting, and a fab tour of the store rooms - which was incredible.
















Cg was a delight to be out with - engaged, amusing, charming, interested etc etc and all in all we have had a fab day.















AND while I was out the builders turned up...and we now have a fab new fireplace excavated from the chimney breast....and not much mess. It looks really good and when the plasterer comes on Thurs we can GET ON WITH DECORATING and then we can GET BACK INTO the room
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2 comments:

tpals said...

What a fun and interesting day!

There's something not fair when your builders don't leave a mess and mine say 'you were going to replace this carpet, right?'. Hmmm.

31 July 2011 00:43
Compostwoman said...

Sorry....maybe I am a scarey sort of client? or maybe using a builder who lives 2 fields away has sone bearing? I dunno....

31 July 2011 00:51

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