9 Jan 2024

The Litterator

posted in: art, Films, Recycling, Wales |

There are those who say we should get a television if only to stop us making this kind of film. 17 mins of soothing dullness for your impassive delectation:

A retired telegraph pole alignment officer, with a world view all of his own, takes up litter-picking at the behest of his wife Brenda. Steven Spielberg, I think it was, said that a film is never finished, it’s just abandoned. That is the case with this one. If you watch it direct on YouTube please click LIKE button even if you hate it. Zero budget filmmaking needs all the help it can get.

31 Dec 2022

Christmas presents 2022

posted in: Countryside, Nature, Recycling |

Chose to make presents this year. Mostly birdboxes, made out of recycled floor boards. This one is now in Gaynor’s garden. 28mm hole suitable for tits, sparrow, nuthatch, pied flycatcher. Or whatever might turn up in a suburb of Wrexham.

A bird box nailed to a tree in a garden. Shed beyond.
27 May 2018

Single-use plastic – reused and retired

posted in: Gardening, Recycling |

Had these two plastic cups followed their intended life they might have spent the last 25 years in a landfill site. As it was, they were retrieved by us and have spent all this time as a nursery – mostly for broad-bean seedlings.  Their time, though, is clearly up.  They can no longer hold themselves together let alone the humus and root of a burgeoning vegetable crop.  So this is their retirement day.  Thank you plastic cups.  Farewell.  You may now take your chances in the recycling bin.  And below, further evidence of overwork of single-use plastic.