When I make my lunches for the week, I usually decant a large can of Tuna into smaller containers and add flavours to them. The "juice" from the cans was going down the sink. A friend of mine said she pops it in her plant pots and another into the compost bucket. The cat turned her nose up at it but the chickens showed a lot of interest in it... I popped it out in a bowl on the ground but they fought over it and spilt it. I wondered if there was a better way! And there is -  Here's what I did...   Take the crust from the ends of the loaves you are turning into sanwiches   Open the can of fish...   And drain the juice onto the crusts!   Voila! Drained tuna for my lunch, Fish juice laden crusts for the chickens!   Everyone is happy! (Except the tuna...) I had a bit more juice than would soak into the two crust and I used a left over piece of bread to soak it up with. The crust just ripped up and went onto the lawn but th...

We host international students and have ended up with an array of bikes stored in our garage. Its a great way for the students to get around for free, as well as being quiet, healthy and environmentally great! The problem was the pile of bikes that was continually in the way. Or the pile you made over in the corner that was moved to get at the bike on the bottom and is back in the way again... :/ We looked at buying bike racks but weren't too keen on the price and then while scratching our heads in the garage last weekend, we had one of those serendipitous moments. We put milk crates and bricks together and... Voila! One free sturdy bike rack! Here's what I did...   Take your milk crates and fill them full of bricks - like so...   Do this in the place you want the bike rack as they get too heavy to move otherwise!     You need one more milk crate than you have bikes. ie three bikes needs four milk crates to hold them up, ...

  I have been following   Christine at Slow Living Essentials  for a couple of years now! And in 2012 she started a monthly round up to record on our blog, how we have "slowed down" under nine categories - I have been doing this since she started it at the  beginning and really get a lot out of it.  Here is what I have been up to! Click on the link to go to the link up and visit other linked up blogs! NOURISH:  Make and bake as much as possible from scratch. Ditch over packaged, over processed convenience foods and opt for 'real' food instead.    Birthday picnic brunch for my Brother in law  - Yum! All made from scratch! Yoghurt, muslie and stewed fruits followed by frittata, smoked salmon and cream cheese filled croissants and an apple banana and pecan loaf - Oh and Humming bird birthday cupcakes!   PREPARE:   Stockpile and preserve.  Each month I buy an item for my stock pile....

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When we go to the markets in the weekends or even to the local food court occasionally, we always end up with plastic cutlery. Awesome fresh roll with yummy salad, cheese and ham filling, that needs to be cut to eat it - the answer is always a plastic knife. For a while we were bringing it home so we didn't have to throw  it out as it seems like such a waste. I ended up with a whole drawer full of plastic takeaway knives, forks and spoons as we taught the kids and students not to throw it out, but to bring it home and reuse it. Except no body (including me) does... Eventually I gave up and took the whole lot to an afterschool care program to use in their craft or home corner and got back a bit of space in our drawers. When I did the no plastic challenge last year, I was quite good at taking my own cutlery to the markets as for Christmas, I asked Santa for this little pocket knife type thing that has a knife, fork and spoon set inside. Then it finally broke and ...

I bought a pair of new (to me) sneakers at the markets last weekend for just 50c! It was a bargain - it was too good to pass up. I tried them on and they fitted me, they were the right colour and really, I couldn't complain about the price!! When I got home I decided to road test my new sneakers and off to the dam the dog and I went. She went to sniff and bound around like a rabbit and I went to look at the water and breathe! On the way there, I noticed that my feet were feeling a bit "Princess and the pea-ish". I swore I could feel the plastic sole of the shoes through my sox. By the time I got back I wasn't so enamoured of my 50c sneakers as I was when I bought them. Once I got home, I had a quick look inside and saw that the inner soles were really worn and that's what the problem was. Well, after paying a whole 50c for them I didn't want to have to go and buy new inner soles and so I had a look around to see what I could use... Here's w...

      Sitting, chatting by the fire on a early Autumn evening with new camera... Want to join in with this Wordless Wednesday? Choose a single picture or a related group and blog them then use the Mr Linky Gadget below to join in. I'd love to see what you are capturing through your lens this week!