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[ostarella]

Well, my home town is slowly closing its doors - or at least it feels that way. The Ford dealership is closing - the owner's retiring - and the Chrysler dealership will no longer be Chrysler; whether they'll stay in business after they run through their inventory I don't know.

And in other news - more American businesses are shipping their jobs overseas.

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[beckyblack]

It's all the rage here now with the middle class to start talking about growing their own veg and keeping chickens and the like. We have these things called "allotments" in UK cities. Patches of land owned by local councils that people can rent and that you can grow vegetables or whatever on. Suddenly, eveyrone wants an allotment again. Especially men of course, because they they can build a shed on it, and men love a nice shed to hide in to drink tea or beer, and listening to footy on the radio while pretending to do Important Gardening Work.

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah - community gardens they call them around here. Well, in the bigger cities. Small towns, almost everyone has room for it in their yards ;-) I used to have a small veggie garden when I lived in the city, in the side yard. Had it all set up with a gravity irrigation systems (big garbage can up on a platform to catch the rainwater) and I double-planted everything so I could fit more stuff in. I remember when we were kids, we had a huge garden alongside the railroad tracks just outside town. We were out there one time and this huge doe went racing across, in between us! LOL

Yeah, those were the days...

[beckyblack]

Cool. They're talking about "new age of auterity" here and that things will be like they were during the way and in the early post war years. Can't see it myself! Just be nice to see people buying real food instead of expensive, over-packaged processed junk frankly.