Thrifty, recycling or good common sense?

I think my blogs are going to be like men and buses - none for ages then 3 at once.  For the next few blogs I am going to tell you how we use, reuse and recycle to put what we do at Roslin Cottage and in our garden into modern jargon.  I call it common sense but then I am 'off the croft'.

 This comes as a request from some of our visitors who have enjoyed a walk around our garden and commented on what we have done in it over the past 8 years - can it be that long? 

The coldframe was one of the first things Sid made.  If you look closely you will see the top is made from a shower door which otherwise would have been crushed when the chalets next door to the cottage were being demolished to make way for the new Bellway housing estate Forest Walk.  The seedlings are coming on nicely in a selection of vegeware coffee cups and kitchen roll tubes.  Mushroom trays from the market are ideal to keep the pots together especially when the whole lot can be immersed in the old tin bath for a good soak.  To be continued...