Daily Archives: June 2, 2012

Can’t Cook/Rubbish at Gardening

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Sometimes I feel quite inadequate. I am no foodie. I can burn toast and microwave something but I simply cannot cook. No interest. Don’t care. Likewise I cannot garden. I cannot grow vegatables. Our family home as a nice big vegetable patch. We are luckier than most but it is my wife who is the gardener. It is a teamwork thing. I dig, she plants. But it isn’t my “thing”. I can intellectualise its importance but I cannot pretend that it interests me. And I say that having grown up in a farming family. My Dad had an enormous vegetable patch! Continue reading →

Bloggers Wanted: social reporting for High Wycombe

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I am rubbish at this. Can you do better? Ever thought: “I could make more sense.” Well now is your chance. The Transition Town blog on the Bucks Free Press was always intended to be a collaborative effort with multiple bloggers. These days it often sounds like one hand clapping. Swish, swish, swish. Do you have something to say about High Wycombe’s future? Got a burning issue to get off your chest? The time has never been better. A while back we invited the local green community to form a blogging team but nothing came of it. So maybe this is not about one community. Maybe it is about all of us? Continue reading →

Back the BID – and that means YOU too!

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The next time you walk into a shop on the High Wycombe High Street or the Eden Shopping Centre ask the shopkeep if their store is backing the BID. Watch their reaction. Confused? They shouldn’t be, and neither should you. The BID should be on the tip of our tongues. For there are new heroes in our town and they come bearing gifts: the Business Improvement District – “BID” for short. It is a plan to rescue our town centre. Continue reading →