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Tuesday 29 November 2011
Wednesday 23 November 2011
2am emails
The amount of work I need to put in now is getting heavy. If I had a job, I just wouldn't be able to do this. Daytime meetings, work on the photo database, trying to get all the ideas in my head down into documents, persuade people to speak to the society etc etc it all just snowballs. Two nights in a row I've been up till 2am emailing. Not good.
Tuesday 22 November 2011
Sunday 20 November 2011
Khokhloma
It seems that Coastal Gardening Society has readers in Russia. My Russian is limited to a drinking toast and I love you and neither seems appropriate but I thank you. On a personal note, I collect khokhloma and the entire collection will be coming out for Christmas and I will post a photo to say thank you.
Friday 18 November 2011
Thursday 17 November 2011
Wednesday 16 November 2011
Sunday 13 November 2011
Pampas grass growing in popularity
Rockin' all over the world: South American pampas, that 1970s hit, is charting again - Gardening - House & Home - The Independent
Do these people know how difficult it can be to eradicate ??
Do these people know how difficult it can be to eradicate ??
Saturday 12 November 2011
Cacti clinic
Received an email from the secretary of the Dover branch of the British Cacti and Succulent Society and he's going to put the idea to the members at their mtg end of November.
Update
Meeting with a Community Projects Adviser from CASE next week and another with the Community Projects Officer at Shepway District Council..looking for a meeting place in Hastings that's open weekends, relaxed, with clean loos and can do decent coffee and pastries..
Handmade Gardener's soap - Soak
Handmade Gardener's soap - Soak
This soap is made by Handmade By the Sea, in Hastings and the company was featured in the December 2010 issue of Vogue.
This soap is made by Handmade By the Sea, in Hastings and the company was featured in the December 2010 issue of Vogue.
Romney Marsh Wools
Romney Marsh Wools
Romney Marsh sheep are bigger than the average Labrador and their lambs are much prized for eating because of the unique salt marsh on which they graze, reclaimed from the sea. Romney Marsh wools does more with them..
Romney Marsh sheep are bigger than the average Labrador and their lambs are much prized for eating because of the unique salt marsh on which they graze, reclaimed from the sea. Romney Marsh wools does more with them..
Friday 11 November 2011
Thursday 10 November 2011
Tuesday 8 November 2011
Monday 7 November 2011
Classified ad
An outfit called 1classifieds managed to copy an expired Craigslist ad for Coastal Gardening Society and post it, adding that Coastal Gardening Society is open to approaches from commercial interests. I told them I want it deleted and that I would be contacting Craigslist and I have also told Craigslist that these cowboys copied a post that was supposedly expired and that they should do something about it.
Sunday 6 November 2011
Saturday 5 November 2011
Information is Beautiful: Plenty More Fish In The Sea?
Information is Beautiful: Plenty More Fish In The Sea? | News | guardian.co.uk
Do have a look it's really shocking !
Do have a look it's really shocking !
Friday 4 November 2011
Littlestone Golf Club
Littlestone Golf Club : Littlestone Golf Club in Kent - CLUB View
This links course is built on land reclaimed from the sea.. wonder if anyone's ever found fossils in the bunkers ...
This links course is built on land reclaimed from the sea.. wonder if anyone's ever found fossils in the bunkers ...
Thursday 3 November 2011
In the garden..
The Coastal Gardening Society garden aka my back garden grows the following:
Brown Turkey and Jerusalem figs, Pinot Noir grapes, olives, passionflower, jasmine, honeysuckle, clematis, oleander, mimosa, hibiscus, canna, fuchsia, ceanothus, lilac, myrtle, pelargoniums, phormium, phoenix canariensis, basil, mint, parsley, tarragon, oregano, wild marjoram, thyme, borage, savory, lemon balm, chives, fennel, bronze fennel, dill and lavender. So it smells good..
Brown Turkey and Jerusalem figs, Pinot Noir grapes, olives, passionflower, jasmine, honeysuckle, clematis, oleander, mimosa, hibiscus, canna, fuchsia, ceanothus, lilac, myrtle, pelargoniums, phormium, phoenix canariensis, basil, mint, parsley, tarragon, oregano, wild marjoram, thyme, borage, savory, lemon balm, chives, fennel, bronze fennel, dill and lavender. So it smells good..
Runaway Coast
Contacted Runaway Coast because the people there embrace coastal living. Coastal Gardening Society should be a coastal spy...
Born in Hunstanton, granddaughter of a Sheringham fisherman, lived in Newmarket, never been to Aldeburgh though or Southwold.
Born in Hunstanton, granddaughter of a Sheringham fisherman, lived in Newmarket, never been to Aldeburgh though or Southwold.
Coastal Gardening Society update
Been coughing mightily and had a head full of cotton wool with a cold which turned into a chest infection and left me wheezing and sounding like Kermit and not in a good way.. so I apologise to anyone who thinks there's too many fish recipes on here and not enough gardening lately.
Coastal Gardening Society is not ya average horticultural society, it's not about biggest marrows or the best home-grown strawberry jam. It's not traditional, it's new.
Coastal Gardening Society is a member of the Coastal Communities Alliance and one of the aims is to get communities involved in regeneration, using horticulture as a way of involving local people in the regeneration of their coastal community. Regeneration shouldn't be something imposed on a community, which doesn't involve them and seems only to benefit weekending DFLs (Down From Londons).
At the same time, the gap between long-term residents of coastal communities and incomers needs to be bridged, because a divided community is good for no-one. Whereas new money and talent help pull a stagnating seaside place out of the doldrums.
Coastal Gardening Society is about gardening in a maritime microclimate. We live in a special environment so let's celebrate that and basically, get stuck in, to everything on offer. So it's not 100% gardening. But that's not a bad thing if you get the curator of a museum giving you a personal guided tour of a smuggler's town or the director of a nature reserve teaching you about native coastal plants after lunch in a 16th century pub, surely ?
But gardening won't be neglected. No, there will be plant clinics with plant societies to give advice and talks on desiging gardens, composting etc.
For the next few days I'm concentrarting on the website. I'd rather have a few pages I'm perfectly happy with than lots I'm not.
Coastal Gardening Society is not ya average horticultural society, it's not about biggest marrows or the best home-grown strawberry jam. It's not traditional, it's new.
Coastal Gardening Society is a member of the Coastal Communities Alliance and one of the aims is to get communities involved in regeneration, using horticulture as a way of involving local people in the regeneration of their coastal community. Regeneration shouldn't be something imposed on a community, which doesn't involve them and seems only to benefit weekending DFLs (Down From Londons).
At the same time, the gap between long-term residents of coastal communities and incomers needs to be bridged, because a divided community is good for no-one. Whereas new money and talent help pull a stagnating seaside place out of the doldrums.
Coastal Gardening Society is about gardening in a maritime microclimate. We live in a special environment so let's celebrate that and basically, get stuck in, to everything on offer. So it's not 100% gardening. But that's not a bad thing if you get the curator of a museum giving you a personal guided tour of a smuggler's town or the director of a nature reserve teaching you about native coastal plants after lunch in a 16th century pub, surely ?
But gardening won't be neglected. No, there will be plant clinics with plant societies to give advice and talks on desiging gardens, composting etc.
For the next few days I'm concentrarting on the website. I'd rather have a few pages I'm perfectly happy with than lots I'm not.
Tuesday 1 November 2011
National Lobster Hatchery
National Lobster Hatchery
NLH tshirt.. not sure why the guy is standing in a potato field wearing it tho..
NLH tshirt.. not sure why the guy is standing in a potato field wearing it tho..
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