October 20, 2007 at 4:23 pm (Big Burro Fun, Flora and Fauna, Other Blogs, Scriblings, The Garden)
Yeeha! My third post for the local newspaper’s blog is online now (and in print, I hear but the free paper never reaches us so I’ve not seen that yet). Pop over to the LEP Green Section and read all about my War on Slugs!
Josie has my fourth post and that should appear in a couple of weeks, whilst Stu has agreed to write for her as well š
October 14, 2007 at 5:42 pm (Being Green, Big Burro Fun, Chooks, Extension, Interweb stuff, Other Blogs, Recycling and Energy, Scriblings, The Garden)
Blimey folks, yet more from me in my local paper! Surely someone will realise I’m winging it? I keep expecting it at work, but no one seems to clock on I’m just a cheeky a chancer š
Read my amazing* second post here – ahhh, go on now… go on… go on…
* honest š
October 1, 2007 at 8:34 am (Being Green, Big Burro Fun, Exciting web finds, Interweb stuff, Other Blogs, Scriblings)
Bloody hell! They put it up on their blog! Well I’ll go t’foot of our stairs š
Reeeead Alllll AAAAAAboooout It! David Burro Says “It ain’t easy being green!”
I’ve aalso been asked to write for a SL magazing and website, but more of that on my mysterious ‘other blog’…
hb
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September 13, 2007 at 10:39 am (Big Burro Fun, Interweb stuff, Other Blogs)
Well faithful Burro fans, it done. I have spoken to the local reporter (Hi Josie – I see you were taught by AndyĀ – Ahhhh, the stories I could tell you about Andy…) and as of next week I’ll be contributing to the local paper’s blog. I don’t think it’s paid – I haven’t really asked. Should it be?
Anyhoos, I’ll keep you posted, loyal readers.
Toodle Pip, Ā as my mate Anni would say š
Lord Burro, gardener to the stars.
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August 15, 2007 at 8:13 am (Big Burro Fun, Other Blogs)
Jesus! I couldn’t eat this bugger! It’s all I could do not to call the local priest in and have it exorcised before driving a stake through its twisted heart!
July 18, 2007 at 7:34 pm (Being Green, Exciting web finds, Interweb stuff, Other Blogs, Recycling and Energy)
Right… I’ve been tagged again. Thank’s KW š
I’m dead busy right now so I’ll have to keep my tags brief (unlike the timeĀ I had to tag my briefs because of that strange man who liked my washing…). This meme comes to me via Kitchen Witch (and a damn fine Witch she is too) from this worthy site.
My five sites are…
1) Bean Sprouts – bloody great site full of useful, real-life stuff. If Mel and her family can do it, we all can!
2) Self Sufficient-ish – cracking site that will inspire and inform.
3) Honeybee Network – protecting rural knowledge for all.
4) Down The Lane – Richard downshifted… so can you!
5) Moosey’s Country Garden – Huge site with tonnes of help and advice.
That’s it folks – gotta dash. Check these links out and have a flick through the ones to the left asĀ I had to leave loads of brilliant peopleĀ and their blogs out š
May 30, 2007 at 1:34 pm (Other Blogs)
UntilĀ I get my photos up and write a bit about being a Shakespear Tourist in Stratford, take a gander at this great blog from Jac in London. Enjoy š
EDIT: Ohhh, take a look at Sara’s farm in Yorkshire too – she makes mine & Hedgie’s To Do lists look easy!
April 16, 2007 at 9:53 am (Exciting web finds, Other Blogs)
This is just a quick post to let you all know (as if you didnāt already, you bunch of eager beavers, you) that there is a new veg growing website-stroke-forum-cum-blog* in town. Click your merry way to www.vegetable-gardens.co.uk and tell Adam I sent you ā at least then he knows who to blame once property prices slump around him.
Ā * Such a thing is illegal in Texas** and make you go blind, you mucky buggers. I’m looking your way, Hedgie…
Ā ** Probably***.
***Sooner or later, all things will be illegal in Texas**. Hedge Wizard has been since 2005****.
**** Poor the HW. A good egg, I say!
April 10, 2007 at 9:15 am (Big Burro Fun, Other Blogs)
Ignore the post below – he’s shut it down already. Blimey!
My mate El Gordo, in a continuing attempt to take over the interweb and/or avoid work, has opened another blog. This blog, I think I can safely say, is the One Blog To Rule Them All and can be used as a portal* to his many, many other sites. Pop along and leave some abuse in my name.Ā p.s. El Gordo has been getting some airplay in the US of A! Clicky and look for Heskin Radiophonic Workshop. Well done matey!
Ā * El Gordo’s portal… *shudder*
March 12, 2007 at 2:19 pm (Big Burro Fun, Other Blogs, The Garden)
Blimey! No, really. BLIMEY! I mean, this is worth a full on Cor Blimey O’Reilly G’vnr bless me my lavlee Cockernee Sparra what can I do wiv a drankan sailor! Trust me, itās that momentous. Really.
You see, it hadn’t occurred to me before, but now I come to think back it is obvious. Like realising the fact that for you to be here your parents must have had sex or that your first pet rabbit didnāt really āgo home to live with his familyā at all but was eaten by your granddad, itās only hindsight that reveals the vile, slobbering maw of truth lurking and grinning just behind that thin veil of self-protective innocence we all wear like a second skin.
But nowā¦ oh god now… now I know the truth about my garden, I feel the clammy hand of terror clutching at my fundament like never before. Now, little things Iāve noticed over the years but dismissed with a casual āOooh, isnāt that interestingā or āAwww, isnāt nature cruelā finally slot into place to reveal, like some horrible, twisted jigsaw from the depths of a cold and calculating mind, that my garden is not some green and idyllic paradise. Itās not even a harsh but fair ecosystem based on Darwinian dog-eat-dog principals. Oh no, instead itās the vicious frontline battle in an eons old war between the forces of Good and Evil! No, really!
What first alerted me was GiGiās post about ants being unable to cross lines of chalk. Good God! Iāve read Dennis Wheatley. Iāve seen āTo The Devil A Daughterā*. I knows my Evil onions, whens I sees āem. GiGiās post led to me to think about other garden pests and thatās when things began to get just a little freaky. Salt. Slugs hate salt and we all know what salt does to the Devil**. Water. Aphids hate water which can only mean they hate holy water as much, if not more.
So, is this the proof I need to conclusively state that our gardens are infested with Creatures From Beyond Our Ken***? Frankly, I donāt know, but Iām beginning to think that if Sunnydale had the Hellmouth, I may have found the Hellanus and I think the only man who can help me now would be born of an unholy alliance forged under a blood red moon between a rutting Monty Don and the undead corpse of Alistair Crowley.
Check your gardens now. And take a witch or wizard with you (skyclad optional, but if they offer I’d say take a camera too… for the ectoplasmic evidence, you understand). Oh, and if you need any more advice, try Marvin as he’s 10th level and I’m only a Terry Toweling Padawan so can only deal with minor dread incursions such as noxious fumes (openĀ yon privy window and spineth withershins thrice whilst holding ye breathee) and broken vials (wearth of the glovees less the Safety and Health wench catch yee and fine yee boss).
Head Burro – salt and chalk at the ready!
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* One scene many, many times. Yowser.
** The answer being blind him, not raise his chance of a heart attack. I donāt think Satan has a heart. And if he did, the mere sight of himself every morning must have annealed it by now. A bit like Kate moss having to look at Pete Doherty in mid-orgasm.
*** I donāt mean two funny camp men. But if they did find their way into my garden, I have a bent dibber that needs some attention and a hoe that needs a good oiling. Oh yes.
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