i haven't posted anything on MySpace for ages, become a bit of a Facebook casualty... but i have been busy doing some quite interesting stuff.. so i should say something about it. I am just loading some pictures of me and Dave at the Ideal Home Show - which is like a huge consumer trade fair I guess, at Earl's Court in London... ha ha the last time I went there was in 1980 to see Pink Floyd do the Wall show... I could even see the spot where me and my mate had camped out over night on the pavement outside to get our tickets... anyway.. there are loads of pictures, so have a look, they are in this Photo library A couple of the canal near Reading, then the site build at the show. We went as part of the Eco House, which was one of the central exhibits of this year's show. Our job was to do the Eco garden to go with the Eco House. The most amazing thing for me was the Shiitake mushroom logs we put there just loved the warmth in there, and at least till they started to dry out, they went absolutely mad and produced Kilos of mushrooms.. the only food actually grown during the show! they looked good

The rest of the shots are mainly of what caught my eye at the show itself. They are a few of the house opening ceremony which was done my David Bellamy and Tim Smidt from the Eden project. I guess its a sign of the times that even the Ideal Home Show, consumer show is trying to go green. To be honest the whole thing depressed the hell out of me. Eco is not something you can buy. Its not another product range. And seeing the waste, the excess, the flashy showy excessive stuff they are selling there, makes me think, no one is really thinking about the environment seriously. From the huge jacuzzi baths, to the Italian designer everything and the acres of plasma screens hi fi and the rest... well you know... more than likely 2008 is going to turn out to be the peak oil year... the moment when demand began to outstrip supply for this resource we have come to totally rely on. It was sort of like the restaurant at the end of the universe, the last days of the mad consumerist fantasy we are all living... anyway check the pics and tell me what you think. ... work harder... buy more stuff... happiness is just around the corner.. the oil will never run out and climate change is not really happened, la la la, i am not listening....

anyway the garden looked alright.. onh and we are on the countdown to running our annual permaculture course here at Chickenshack, so that is exciting.. i will write about that separately