Chooks

I know this isn’t a strictly garden-related post, but ever since Vivh posted about chicken tractors, I’ve been thinking about chickens. Really.
I’m not sure how and where and when the humble hen became an industrial product – something that was produced, rather than the contented fowl that clucked around the back door and gave up [...]

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Bagged #2

Well said, Rebekahn.   I couldn’t help thinking similar the day before yesterday as I wandered through the market  in Pondicherry (actually the new spelling is Puducherry) and  saw these hanging from a stall: 

So-called developed world leftovers.  A bit ironic, aren’t they?  I wonder how much money Tesco made off them.  I wonder if they were fair trade, too.  [...]

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Blog Action Day – Poverty

So yesterday was Blog Action Day. And I missed it. Boo to me. The theme for this year’s event was Poverty, something we know all too well about in South Africa, so I decided it would still be worth putting up my planned blog, because I think it’s an important story:
Urban poverty in South Africa, [...]

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