Build Your Green Roof with Sod, Turf, or Straw
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Chelsea GreenPosted
Tue 10 Feb 2009 10:23am
The following is an excerpt from Serious Straw Bale: A Home Construction Guide for All Climates by Michel Bergeron and Paul Lacinski. It has been adapted for the Web.
As an alternative to conventional roofing, the idea of a green cover over a house can be very attractive. You might choose a living roof for aesthetic [...]
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Oh sod it ....
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Sue F.Posted
Tue 10 Mar 2009 12:00am
.... I'm doing this for me, and nobody else. If I make it about other people then I'm going to fail. So best of luck to my flatmate and her boyfriend - if they do well, good on them. It's not a race, it's not a competition, it's a life change and I'm not flaming well messing it up now!
So there!
:o)
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The "Oh, sod it!" gene
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Carrie A.Posted
Tue 15 Jun 2010 12:43pm
of the "Oh, sod it!" gene. I laughed, of course, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that there probably was something to that.
Long before the AN showed up in my... on term papers), but I just couldn't do it. I literally didn't have the ability to say "Oh, sod it!" and get some rest. It really didn't occur to me as a valid option
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Sod's Law
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MartinPosted
Wed 03 Jun 2009 12:22amSod's Law
Noun
a facetious or satirical proposition stating that if there is a possibility for something to go wrong, it will go wrong.
On Chestnut Ward I am pretty much..., turns out I might have Crohn’s.
Now I don’t think I’m being overly paranoid here, but I do have my suspicions that I may have fallen foul of Sod’s Law. Not just once
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Sod Sofas
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Kate M.Posted
Wed 01 Oct 2008 8:26pm
-it-yourself, weekender projects that range from ridiculous to loads of fun.
Be the envy of your neighborhood with your very own sod sofa. Visit ReadyMade for step by step
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Odds and Sods
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Shauna M.Posted
Thu 15 Jan 2009 7:50pm
So here I am...been on the busy side this week and it's not over yet. Work is go go go as it's the height of vacation season and we're a little short staffed so am working all weekend. My reward is next Tuesday to Friday off. Yay! I am planning a number of things while on a mini vacation that I know I will not accomplish. I've been trying to get ...
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Odds and Sods - feb 2010
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Kurt G Harris MDPosted
Fri 12 Feb 2010 5:12pm
Long time reader and valued commenter Patrik has started a new site called Paleohacks. It's kind of a hub or nexus for questions about paleoutrition and evolutionary fitness. Patrik says it is based on stack-exchange and I can't really explain that very wellso go check it outit looks pretty cool and is off to a good start.
We've been ...
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Yay Me! No - Yay You Guys! Oh Sod It - Yay All Of Us!
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Sue F.Posted
Sat 12 Mar 2011 7:32am
I never fail to be impressed your most excellent cheerleading skills. Although I have to admit that I genuinely don't want to write with the idea of getting comments or validation on any particular thing (believe me, you'll know when I do!), it is always nice to get comments like those. So thank you (again), and I heart you all.
Claire poin ...
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More Odds and Sods
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Shauna M.Posted
Fri 04 Sep 2009 9:44am
I've been out exploring a little more this week. Sunday found the wookie and I going to check out the surf again just after Tropical Storm or Depression or whatever it was, Danny. It dumped almost 4 inches of rain on halifax and the winds and rainfall wreaked more havoc than the hurricane the weekend before. The waves were great the day after, and ...
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