Next time you fill up at your petrol station think about the price (£1.40 per litre at present) Ever wondered how much it would cost to involve your country in another countries business?  Of course the country is Britain; I failed to add the prefix of Great as we all seem to have lost this feeling recently.  The other country is oil rich Libya which was certainly in need of a new leadership. It seems sickening that the UK was at the fore-front of using military action using our expertise and military hardware including human resources to infiltrate the Libyan dictatorship’s downfall.  Britain was not the only country with a keen interest in the vast oil fields or replacing a leadership that would be under the control or influenced...

Talking today to a number of people met along the walk to the allotment there is a common theme running through people's minds. They talk not of recession, of lower income and loss of employment – no…they talk of  time. Time, they all believe, is moving too quickly - so much so that some feel they have been in a state of sleep as they suddenly realise that we are into August, yet it feels as if it should be April or May. So what is happening? Are the Mayan calendar predictions of the end of the material world coming true with predictions of time speeding up, commercial institutes collapsing, and dictators toppled from power and the down trodden getting a voice. Yes the Mayans could not see that some of this has happened due to modern tec...

We have started a lending team with the purpose of lending money to enterprising people in their countries: Footprints in the Sand Here’s the background: It’s Saturday morning, you’ve parked your car and you’re walking to the shops.  You notice an elderly person rattling a tin for a well-known charity and you feel you should give them something.  A pound, a couple of pounds, maybe even more because you know someone who died from that particular disease, or just in case you catch it yourself.  Whatever you give it makes you feel better that you helped…..somehow. Have you ever thought where that money really goes? Would it surprise you to know that much of it goes in administration expenses, even 5-star hotels and first class airfa...

Waste away On our travels around the back streets of many a city, town and village haunting in the small hours we have been appalled by the amount of waste food being dumped into bins ready to be transported off to landfill sites. And why? It is all because here in the UK in particular we are obsessed with sell by and use by dates on food packages.  The fact that this food is edible days, some times weeks, after the sell by date.     We at Green Ghost Towers (by the sea) have been buying up food on the sell by date and leaving it for a day, then two days, then a week to see if it is something we would like to eat.  We took no risks as to cause unfortunate ghostly instant follow through of the unpleasant kind yet found the food to be...

Green Ghost Towers is enjoying the sea views – not caused by a fateful giant wave but rather a move to the coast. This has meant a smaller garden for both flowers and vegetables. So we all hatched a cunning plan whilst in the lookout tower we spied allotments.  So that was the plan – we would apply for an allotment. Some 14 months later we have half an allotment of five rods. So as ghosts and spooks we like to visit at night and would you believe it? We have the cemetery next door so we can talk gardening over with fellow ghosts before they leave for the light – not sure if the lamp post is the light but if it fits!    Back to the allotment. We asked for a quick plough and wow – great machines move in and we have what looked like a gre...

http://youtu.be/e-ivZxGsPes This is a link on precision tree cutting which had to be placed between two newly planted trees, miss a wife and a barn. Perfect shot.

One of my granddaughters gave me the idea for this article. She asked for some suggestions for a dessert she was making for a Pot-luck dinner with an Indian Theme. When I used to visit schools, one of the first questions I was asked was...What did Indians eat? The Three Sisters (Maize (Corn). Squash, and Beans, were the most commonly grown vegetables for many of the native people. They complimented each other as the bean vines climbed the corn stalks and the squash grew in between the stalks to keep out the weeds. According to many origin stories, they, along with tobacco, were the gift of First Woman (Mother Earth), to her children. They first grew from her body after she was buried. Before the people had to depend on wild plant...

Things have been a little fraught at GG Towers so it was a great delight to find ghost egg boxes in local shops.  By ghost egg boxes we mean the plastic ones that are slowly replacing the pulp packaging ones we have grown up with. The reason for the change, well the powers that be have wanted to get rid of pulp boxes for some time now as they were seen to be host to bugs that cause sickness when an egg breaks and the contents seep into the pulp box.    The new plastic boxes are lighter, tougher and have a low carbon foot print. One of the users is Oaklands of Shropshire who have a delightful lady of words Becca, who told me that the company are pleased with the cartons and other plastic pots they use for yoghurt and other grocery item...

The World Wildlife Fund has again asked us to join millions across the globe for EARTH-HOUR 2011. On Saturday 26th March at 8.30 pm (UK time) they want the global skyline to be plunged into darkness for the world’s biggest call for action on the threats facing our planet.  Less than 10 Days to go! Show you care about tackling the climate change and protecting our natural world. It’s a message to world leaders that they need to take urgent action and a reminder to us all that we only have one planet earth! Why don’t you register to take part at wwf.org.uk/earthhour One Hour-One World-Our Future.

Geopathic Stress Geopathic Stress is a naturally-occurring form of radiation. It allows unstable electromagnetic  energies to rise up through the earth’s surface, houses and buildings affecting the occupants in different ways.  Geopathic stress is known to weaken the body’s immune system making us more prone to illnesses or degenerative diseases. Also called sick building syndrome, black lines, radon gas and lung mai (earth meridian), geopathic stress has been found to be a common factor in most serious and long-term illnesses, psychological conditions as well as emotional disturbances. It is caused principally by an interaction of other electromagnetic fields, underground running water, concentrations of minerals, natural fault li...