Worm farming

That got your attention didn’t it!?  (or maybe not – the polls will decide)

The other day I was appalled at a local bread company having an oven on the fritz which resulted in their inability to supply the South Island with bread.

My answer to this was to bake my own, and I really enjoyed the experience and the taste. I think I’ll keep it up.

As well as deciding to break free of the hold the corporate’s have on how I live, I’m also going to give worm farming a crack, something to help Mother Nature fight the pollution and damage to the world by the carelessness of us as custodians of our piece of the planet.

Worm farming.  Hmmm, ok, so most might know it as composting.  That’s what I know it as.  You can add worms to the compost which help to compost faster, and the little blighters help to reduce the smell as well!

Here’s the details I’ve been looking at from the website, and I found this from the auctions this lady has on TradeMe.

Mark is giving me a funny look with all my latest “ideas”.

Actually, when I mentioned about composting, on the back of having read out an article of some lady who turned her front yard into a veggie patch, he asked if I was going to be like Barbara from The Good Life.

See what happens when you’ve got too much time on your hands, you get a chance to sit and think and sometimes re-evaluate life.

I bet some of you can’t wait for my training programme to begin again, so you can read something more interesting, something that closer resembles what you’re interested in.

Stay tuned, who knows what crazy idea I might get in my head tomorrow.  It could all change!  (for the better of course).

On an entirely unrelated matter ..

NCIS began again on Sunday.  We recorded the show and watched it last night.  I’m so glad it’s back on. CSI: Miami is about to re-start as well.  Now just waiting for Numb3rs to start up again too.

And on something really unrelated ..

I need to clean my bike chain.  I rode to work this morning and it started raining on me.  I meant to clean my chain during the weekend and glad I didn’t given today’s rain, but for all that, I need to clean it.  I tend to go through chains regularly and it’s usually avoidable.  If only I cleaned the chain on a more regular basis.  I don’t think each 6 months really cuts it.

Creatures of habit

We are all creatures of habit.  How do we know?  You change one thing from what you usually do and a light bulb goes off. We’ve all been there, it’s happened to everyone of us. 

We sit there in our day-to-day wrapped up world working the way we always have.  Sometimes we’ve just not had time to really think about why we do things the way that we do.  Often we don’t have the luxury of time to think about the things we do and why we do them.

I’ve had a couple of moments recently where something has forced me to behave in a different manor and I realise that it’s a change from my norm.  And you know what?  It can be really refreshing!  In two cases I can think of lately, it even meant and improvement.

I could share with you what they were but they seem so trivial that I’m sure you’d be bored to tears and that’s not my intention.

Oh, OK!  You’ve forced me into it

I’ll just share one.

The other day I was cycling to work approaching a roundabout.  I wanted to travel straight ahead.

As I arrived at the round-about a big SUV approached the round-about on my right.  He indicated to turn left.  On that basis I began to pick up speed to enter the roundabout to travel straight ahead. 

Low and behold what does the dude do?  He comes straight for me!

So rather than travelling through the roundabout which was my intention, I had to turn left in order to save my life (a little drama isn’t necessarily a bad thing )

But in doing this I was no longer travelling the way I would normally go to work.  I had to pick a side street to head back the way I meant to go.

In the end it worked out better for me.  And now I travel that way ….. deliberately.

For those who want to brush up on the recent changes to the roundabout road rule, feast your eyes on this.

 

Today’s Gripe

On the same theme, the gripe is that since the introduction of the new road rule for roundabouts, you end up now with a group of people who don’t know when they should indicate and indicate for every darn turn of the wheel.  They indicate to say they’re turning …. because they’re ENTERING the roundabout when they’re travelling straight ahead.

You take this as gospel i.e. they’re going to turn right around the round-about and end up in the predicament I describe above.  In the way of a vehicle travelling straight ahead (sigh).

And the link again, just in case you didn’t catch it the first time.  Though I know all my friends who cycle will know most of the road rules off by heart – we rely on them for our safety, but don’t always trust that everyone knows how to use them