How to induce a sense of well-being and satisfaction:
Equip yourself with a wheelie bin, a rake, a bin bag and a pair of rubber gloves. Find a nearby street with trees in it. Rake up fallen leaves and put them in the bin, separating and bagging litter as you go. When the bin is full, take it back home and transfer the leaves into a meter cubed bag.
It's not about clearing up (I leave almost all of the ones in my back garden as they're not smothering anything much), it's about making leaf mould. The ones in the street would be wasted otherwise. The fact that my neighbours are grateful for them being 'tidied' is if course an additional RTBC.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I do collect all the leaves from the road the road at the front, the neighbours do laugh as I clear a strip about 300mt long. I do also cut the grass over the front of mine and the neighbours either side, all helps the compost 😃
Making leaf mould when my children were little used to take all day! There is nothing quite like kicking a big pile of leaves (confess I joined in) especially on a dry day
My RTBC, I have a new shed!
Also both Advent calendars (for my grandsons) finished, delivered and well received - although that might just be the chocolates.
I made a robot for the 4 year old and it goes all over the house with him I'm told, just hope it survives the love for another 21 days.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
I am very happy with the shed colour, it doesn't dominate like the old one which was essentially creosoted 'til it fell apart. Had to clear the area for the workers to put it up so it looks a lot tidier and spacious in the picture than it is now!
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
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Equip yourself with a wheelie bin, a rake, a bin bag and a pair of rubber gloves. Find a nearby street with trees in it. Rake up fallen leaves and put them in the bin, separating and bagging litter as you go. When the bin is full, take it back home and transfer the leaves into a meter cubed bag.
My RTBC, I have a new shed!
Also both Advent calendars (for my grandsons) finished, delivered and well received - although that might just be the chocolates.
I made a robot for the 4 year old and it goes all over the house with him I'm told, just hope it survives the love for another 21 days.
I am very happy with the shed colour, it doesn't dominate like the old one which was essentially creosoted 'til it fell apart. Had to clear the area for the workers to put it up so it looks a lot tidier and spacious in the picture than it is now!