When I read the blog challenge on bview, I just had to pick up the gauntlet and get writing. What to spend £500 on and get a 99% discount? No problem! Isn’t that what us girls were made for … retail therapy?
With a few passing fancies about a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes, a winning lottery ticket and liposuction (dismissed due to insufficient funds), suddenly I had that old familiar ‘December feeling’. You know the one I mean? When your nearest and dearest asks what you really, really want for Christmas. Immediately your mind goes blank … everything in your personal ‘want box’ vaporises, only to return unfulfilled on Boxing Day.
So … what would I spend £500 on. What would make me, a true Aberdonian (and you know what they say about them!), part with £500 of hard earned cash. It isn’t an easy choice to make. Now you might think me sad, but after a lot of deliberation I know exactly what I’d choose … a little man to dig a 3 ft hole in the garden … and Green Cone Food Waste Digester to put in it!
You might be forgiven for thinking £500 would be a lot of money to spend on a little man digging a hole in the ground. However, in this particular part of Chipping Norton, after excavating about 12 inches of top soil, it’s Cotswold stone all the way! So realistically, it would take a little man (or even a large strong one) armed with a trusty pickaxe, quite some time to dig a big enough hole. And lets face it, little men don’t come cheap these days!
Having been the proud owner of a Green Cone in a previous life, it’s something which is badly missed. These fantastic dalek-type contraptions digest all your food waste, cooked and raw, and enrich the surrounding soil with precious nutrients. With a green cone, we could cut our waste to next to nothing. It would happily consume anything we couldn’t compost or put in the dog! And, to complete the circle, I’d plant some insect-friendly plants beside it. They’d be well fed and help attract the endangered bumble bees to the garden. So all would be well in our world … and who’d go gardening in a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes anyway?
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Speaking as a pretty non-green fingered person (actually not so pretty!!) I am very intrigued and impressed by the whole green cone concept – which should allow major agricultural flourishings and improved pollination prospects for the surrounding flora. So Joy you get my vote………Jimmy Choo’ed or barefooted, you are the tops – and a great chef to boot, as my stomach will testify…………… xx