Frugal
These are all the posts in the “frugal” category.
Frugality is the centre point of this blog – a lot of the cooking, making, growing, and chickening posts are also really frugal living ideas. You may also be interested in charity shopping (aka using thrift stores) and anti-consumerism stuff.
ONE. Two of the chickens are in moult – Ginger the Black Rock and Ms Mauve, an ISA Brown. There have been a lot of feathers about in the coop and run but neither have gone too bald (… yet?). Both have lost their tail feathers so look strangely round and last week both lost [...]
I’ve just taking advantage of another lovely autumn morning to cut some more wood for use over winter. I was enjoying the sweet victory of finishing another log when I accidentally grazed the blade of the saw against my finger. It’s nothing – the hint of a graze, it drew red but not drops of [...]
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This question has been buzzing around in my head for a few weeks but a comment on someone else’s blog has driven it to the surface: are you still as frugal and green while you’re out & about or on holiday as you are at home? A few miscellaneous ideas that created the initial buzz: [...]
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Cor, another month that seems to have taken its sweet time to come to a close – again, not dragged but the beginning of the month feels very long way ago now. (Lemon curd, with cinnamon, which I made one day to accompany a fig-and-fennel soda bread test loaf.) Goals in 2011 progress We tried [...]
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