Hello and welcome to The Compost Bin. I'm Compostwoman and I live with my family in rural Herefordshire. We have nearly four acres of garden and woodland, all managed organically and to Permaculture principles, which we share with Chickens, Cats and assorted wildlife. We also grow a lot of our own food, run courses in all sorts of things and make a lot of compost!

I am a Master Composter and have spent more than a decade as a volunteer Community Compost adviser with Garden Organic and my local Council.
I'm a self employed Environmental Educator so I run workshops and events where I talk about compost, veg growing, chicken keeping, cooking, preserving and sustainable living. I also run crafts workshops and Forest School/outdoor play sessions in our wood.

We try to live a more self sufficient lifestyle here, as best we can, while still having a comfortable life and lots of fun.


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Wednesday, 28 December 2022

Trolls

 Just in case any of the detractors who have messaged about my post that we were using our AGA on Christmas Day, wonder why we turned it on? 

 (although, you don't seem to have bothered actually reading my post, or thinking, before you commented.)

I'm just very grateful that

We have an Aga in the first place (came with the house, we didn't install it) 

We have an Aga to use.

(It's oil fired, because we are rural, so no mains gas, as is very common in rural communities, so we have no choice but to pay for oil. If we can't, we go cold.)

, and the house came with an oil tank supplying the house, (as most rural houses do around here, only source of heating/hot water, unless there is a wood burner or fire place) , APART from the solar thermal tubes and Pv we have installed) 

We can afford to buy (within a reasonable list) food that needs an Aga to be cooked in.

(Yes, we have pensions, by working in well paid jobs which we worked very hard to get the qualifications to be employed to do, and a house we scrimped and saved to pay off our mortgage) 

We can afford to run the AGA for a few days, (we have the AGA have pensions, yada yada yada.)

We've never had a foreign holiday, have only flown twice (as part of our jobs ) abroad. 

I'm sorry that who ever youse are, are offended by us living within OUR means, and utilising a tool that exists in our kitchen/household, to make our lives more comfortable for a few days.

Shame on you for not leaving comments on my original post, instead emailing or messaging me on other SM platforms. You can just Fuck Off.

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