Landscape Juice

How to chop, stack and dry firewood book sales roar

How to chop, stack and dry wood...doesn't sound interesting, does it? Well you'll be surprised because a book on this very subject - Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way - is selling like hotcakes. In fact, it's doing so well that Radio Four is featuring is as 4's Book of the Week over Christmas. In Norway it is on the best-seller list (selling 300,000 copies a year. It's been translated into 10 different languages. A review on Amazon: "First things first, I really enjoyed this book and I would thoroughly recommend getting a copy. I found... Read more →

London's Garden Bridge is saved by 11th-hour cash deal

London's visionary Garden Bridge has been saved in an 11th-hour deal that slashed £20 million from the cost to the capital’s taxpayers. Talks between Labour mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan, Lambeth council leader Lib Peck, Transport for London and the Garden Bridge Trust reached a dramatic breakthrough that will allow work to start on schedule next year. The key was a cut in funding provided by TfL, from £30 million to £10 million. The other £20 million will be loaned by TfL if needed, and ultimately funded by the private sector or future revenues. It lifts a shadow from the £175... Read more →