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City life is a little different, and though I would love a proper 'kitchen' garden, the reality is that I have a number of fruit trees (2 figs, greengages, grape vines, hazlenut) and grow my own, mint, parsley, rosmary, thyme, bay, coriander, chives, tomatoes, spring onions.

I do have a bird table, which is much appreciated by sparrows, thrushes, and robins in the winter time. I keep the hazlenut tree (even though it is actually a nuisence) so that the squirrel family in the tree at the end of my garden have food. (I don't even mind too much when they dig up my tulip bulbs looking for their buried nuts!)

We do our best to recycle, and our local council is very proactive in this area, providing every household with special bins, one green, one black, to sort our paper/ bottles/cans/plastics/textiles into, which they collect regularly.

I try to buy locally grown produce, and avoid excess packaging. We drive an eco friendly car, but use public transport wherever possible. I know I could do more, and am always looking to improve on what I am doing.