Hello and welcome to The Compost Bin. I'm Compostwoman and I live with my family in rural Herefordshire. We have nearly four acres of garden and woodland, all managed organically and to Permaculture principles, which we share with Chickens, Cats and assorted wildlife. We also grow a lot of our own food, run courses in all sorts of things and make a lot of compost!
I am a Master Composter and have spent more than a decade as a volunteer Community Compost adviser with Garden Organic and my local Council.
I'm a self employed Environmental Educator so I run workshops and events where I talk about compost, veg growing, chicken keeping, cooking, preserving and sustainable living. I also run crafts workshops and Forest School/outdoor play sessions in our wood.
We try to live a more self sufficient lifestyle here, as best we can, while still having a comfortable life and lots of fun.
To learn more about us click on the About Compostwoman tab and remember to click on the photos to make them full size!
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
like Alice, I have tumbled down the slippery, whirling, twirling rabbit hole again.....
It came on with a vengence on Sunday, after bouts on and off last week and I was so ill I got carted off in an ambulance to A and E Monday night. Fortunately they let me out Tuesday morning, with drugs to take for it.
Am back at home now but spending the day on virtually total bed rest, looking at a blank wall in a darkened room is the order of the day. Am on drugs to reduce sypmtoms ( but not by much) which give me maybe an hour a couple of times a day where I can eat, see ok to read, type etc.
so am taking advantage of the current "good" spell now, to send a couple of important emails about cancelling work, and to let you all know what has happened.
Thank you for the kindly comments and emails I have already had but I am really not up to answering them at the moment - I hope you can all understand why?
Don't worry, I will live, but its not much fun being me at the moment!
Will come back when I am able.
Saturday, 13 February 2010
Getting nowhere, fast!
Everything I tried to do failed, sometimes in a quite spectacular and alarming manner.....
Even managed to lose whole chunk of my teaching course work and my back up media also failed to produce the, well, backup....Good job I have managed to find a backup, backup version....!
At about 6 pm last night I gave up on anything at all except, eating a meal ( cooked by CM....) drinking wine (opened and poured by CM!!) and watching a DVD with CM and CG ( Night at the Museam, very funny in a silly sort of way!)...
Decided anything else would be too risky .....I WAS planning on bottling some wine, but decided I would probably drop them all or somehow ruin the 15 l worth , if I tried.....
Anyone else ever have days where ABSOLUTELY NOTHING will go right?