One of my lads decided to spend some of his money on a new pet this week. We are now the proud owners of a six-inch long reptile called a Leopard Gecko. The pet is happily living in a heated tank in the bedroom but does get taken out quite often to show visitors to the house. The Gecko was even taken to school in an old mayonnaise jar to show my lads classmates. Reptiles, like all pets need feeding regularly and the Gecko’s favourite food is live crickets. I managed to buy a pack of about twenty of the noisy creatures from a pet shop in Letterkenny. They were reasonably priced at four euro for the critters, but the Gecko is getting through them at a fair rate and eventually it will eat about three a day. I have thought of a brilliant solution to the cost implication, we are going to breed them ourselves! Crickets eat anything and if you get enough of them they will make a great natural recycling centre for the kitchen waste. All that is needed is a secure box and some moss peat and we are away. They breed very quickly and apparently are very difficult to keep contained so we might have a few escapees, there has already been one that managed to jump out of the box and into the kitchen. We don’t want anymore getting away. Being woken up by a cricket climbing up your bedclothes and tickling your ear or climbing into your nostril sounds bad, but we have had worse. There was a time Ronnie saved about thirty snails in a biscuit tin in the front room. After the lid was left off one night they all escaped around the house and turned up months later in the strangest of places!
The oil crisis is hitting everyone’s pocket at the moment. Like it or not our lives are woven around the use of this natural resource. We have been aware for years now that this resource has a very short life span (about thirty years to go before it will be too expensive to extract it from the earth) Because of this we have been finding alternatives such as wind power, wave power, solar power and bio mass systems. As time goes on the message is slowly getting through to governments to act on these new initiatives. This is well and good but there is still the problem of our grocery bill going up because of upward spiralling transport costs to get the goods from around the world onto our supermarket shelves. Petrol and diesel is at an all time high and transport companies are protesting against high fuel taxes. Because of this, there is no better time to think about growing your own produce and buying food from local suppliers. There is something very satisfying when you know the history of the food on your table and knowing that it is full of goodness from your own area. Get planting your seeds now, even if it’s a few radishes or lettuce in a pot.
The oil crisis is hitting everyone’s pocket at the moment. Like it or not our lives are woven around the use of this natural resource. We have been aware for years now that this resource has a very short life span (about thirty years to go before it will be too expensive to extract it from the earth) Because of this we have been finding alternatives such as wind power, wave power, solar power and bio mass systems. As time goes on the message is slowly getting through to governments to act on these new initiatives. This is well and good but there is still the problem of our grocery bill going up because of upward spiralling transport costs to get the goods from around the world onto our supermarket shelves. Petrol and diesel is at an all time high and transport companies are protesting against high fuel taxes. Because of this, there is no better time to think about growing your own produce and buying food from local suppliers. There is something very satisfying when you know the history of the food on your table and knowing that it is full of goodness from your own area. Get planting your seeds now, even if it’s a few radishes or lettuce in a pot.
Environmental.
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