My neighbour Mary Ann is keen to meet her neighbours and would like us to become more community minded. She came over last week and we had a long conversation about global warming and peak oil. She read the book by Barbara Kingsolver which has prompted her angst. Mary Ann is a bit of an activist and has decided to provoke her neighbours into action, not just talk.
She would love to set up a vege garden for the college community - particularly for faculty families. I told her that the gardener at St Paul's has a vege garden behind John Chapman house. Apparently, he has agreed to let us build a vege garden there.
Yesterday as I walked past her place, I saw that she had pegged a message to her neighbours onto her front fence encouraging people to respond. She had left a pile of paper scraps and pegs for people to contribute. There were a number of messages pegged up by passers by. Mary Ann lives on King Street, so there are people walking past constantly. I enjoyed reading the messages and added one of my own. This morning, I noticed that someone had referred to this as a retro blog.
