.... random rants and rambles. no agenda. yet.

As you may have noticed, I recently joined Freecycle and put a link to it in my links section further down on this page. It's really cool... for those who didn't know, you can join your local Freecycle egroup and give away your stuff to random strangers, rather than throwing it away. Kinda like free recycling, hence the name. Of course, you can also get things for free.

C, being C, decided she wanted to ask Freecycle for some compost (yes, poo, rather than computer parts or a spare widescreen TV, for example), and was thrilled when an old lady gave her some horse poo. As you do(!) She was even more thrilled when an old man offered her some chicken poo, which is apparently even better for the garden than horse poo - and smells a lot worse too!

So, today, I offered to go with her to pick up the compost/chicken poo/whatever, thinking it would be really easy. Ha. We drove farrr into the middle of nowhere, where we came to a house with the world's longest garden - no joke, man it was long! - with many different birds wandering around.

The very nice old guy took us down to the bottom of his longgggg garden, where there was a huge pile of chicken poo. The easiest way of getting it was to stand on it, so we did... well, C dug while I held the bags open and pushed the wheelbarrow up to the other end of the longgggggg garden and generally freaked out and pulled faces cos I didn't mention I don't actually get on very well with chickens, and they were looking at me funny, and I couldn't believe I was standing on a giant pile of chicken poo in the first place, especially not on a Saturday, and especially not when we were meant to be working (oh well, there's always tomorrow)...

... And now I have bird flu paranoia.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghhhhhhhh!

Apart from that, today is the 3rd anniversary of BSL recognition. I'm feeling grumpy about it here.