Thursday 3 January 2013

Cut your own canes

Today we returned to work after five nights away with cherished relations having received an unexpected phone call.

A has limited resources but supplements what she has with bamboos.  A clump grows vigorously in her garden and needed cutting back.  After a quick half hour on the patio we were happy to comply.  

A's garden now looks tidier.  As for us:- 

We spent no vouchers or cash.  We used no machinery, cutting individual canes with secateurs.  We walked to the job and chose what we wanted; whilst the rejects went into A's brown bin en route to our borough's composting facilities.  While my husband took our big bundle home, I walked to our local shops and spent some of the money in the Co-op.

Come the growing season we will use them.  What a wonderful virtuous recycling circle this has been.  Would that life was always this simple.  

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