Thrown your cardboard? What a shame!

Guess what Izhar Gafni, an engineer, can create with cardboard? Given up?

It's a cardboard bicycle that he can ride on. And mind you, Mr Izhar is not as petite as you may have guessed him to be.  And no, that cardboard bike did not disintegrate on contact with water.

Don't believe me?  Take a look for yourself.


This should put those who could not be bothered with recycling or reusing cardboard boxes to shame.  Don't you agree?

Talk green? Try Gangnam lah.

Let's go BAD

It's Blog Action Day. What can we say together to make things happen?

Nothing Without You from Nancy Poh

Fresh air? Go green.

Don't like the smell in your house?

Before you pay for that can of air freshener make sure that it is a "phthalate-free," product.  Product labeled "fragrance" on it most likely contains some form of phthalate, such as, phthatates compounds such as DBP (di-n-butyl phthalate) or DEP (diethyl phthalate), which can easily evaporate into food or the atmosphere to affect your health.

Here is another green option you can try.

The Power of We

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Don't See Red! Turn Green.

If you have just moved to a new housing estate, you will most likely see cardboard boxes discarded by the contractors who have installed new appliances. What a waste when these can be collected to be recycled.

In some you may also see construction leftover or debris.

You may even see green waste being indiscriminately discarded .

While some of my fellow neighbours may see red over these, I would like to see green; Herbie Spiral green, that is.

I came across an article "Smart Gardening" by MARY BETH BRECKENRIDGE published in "The Star" on 15 May and discovered that one can easily build herb spirals by laying stones or bricks or broken tiles in a circular manner to look like a spiral staircase. 

Try googling "herb spiral design" for images and you will have an idea of what I am talking about.  That is how I discovered this video.



According to the article, "Build an Herb Spiral: Give Your Garden Ancient Flare" due to the spiral formation:

1) the top and center of the spiral will contain the driest soil and the sunniest growing area
2) the bottom and end of the spiral will have the wettest soil and the shadiest growing area

Though we do not have the 4 seasons to worry about, the articles posted at, "When to sow what", will give you an idea what is best grown on the sunniest or wettest part of the structure. 

For ease of movement as you work on it, the best dimension to create a herb spiral is:
Diameter: 2 meter high
Height at Centre of Spiral: 1 meter high

Happy gardening and let us hope that no one will be fighting over the following abandoned materials required for building the Herb Spirals:

1) cardboard
2) stones, bricks, tiles
3) dried cuttings

Of stones, lallang and snakes...

My neighbours spotted snakes in their compound! What should I do to protect my family against being bitten by one? I called the MPkj personnel covering Zone 8 in Kajang about it and was told to call Jabatan Bomba at "994" if assistance is required to capture the snake and for some guidelines on what to do on sighting one. I also did a search on "snake like to hide in" and came across a link to "How do snakes hide?" and found the following answers: 1) Depending on the snake they usually are hidden in grasses (lallang) or small tight spaces like under parts of rocks and some even live in trees. (Oops, there are lots of trees, tall weeds and rocks where I live.) 2) Probably somewhere warm and dark. Popular hide outs are under floorboards, in unfinished basements, under beds, or under shelves. (Seen this often on Discovery Channel.) 3) anything that they can go under................ (That sounds scary.) My neighbour told me that snakes eat frogs and that is worrying as we have a water feature in our garden that attracts them to breed there. So, how can I encourage my neighbours to work together on getting rid of stones or tall lallang that are often see in vacant units in a new estate? Herb Spiral to the rescue. What's that? Find out in my next posting.