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		<title>Birds Brookmill Park &#8211; Kingfisher, Water Rail and Mandarin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rainy afternoon but still walk down to Brookmill Park in Lewisham to try out my new 200mm lens. I regularly see Kingfishers in the Park. Luckily there was one fishing avid along the southern stretch. Although not a brilliant shot it certainly shows that they are here. One of the best places in the UK [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dustygedge.co.uk/roadblog/2010/02/birds-brookmill-park-kingfisher-water-rail-and-mandarin/</link>
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		<title>Laban Dance Centre &#8211; Bulbs and Bees -IYB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A cold damp winters day visit to the Laban Dance Centre.  Our first green roof visit of the year. This roof is the original  rubble or brown roof. We carried a couple of bags of crocii bulbs to plant in the rubble. At this time of year, to many the roof&#8217;s look will not appeal, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dustygedge.co.uk/roadblog/2010/02/laban-dance-centre-bulbs-and-bees-iyb/</link>
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		<title>Autumn/Fall green roofs</title>
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As the nights draw in and the storms of autumn herald in the approach of winter, everything retreats into itself in preparation for hibernation. The naturalists mind leaves behind thoughts of bees, and the fragrance of summer  and turns to fungi and winter tit flocks. A visit to a green roof in autumn may well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dustygedge.co.uk/roadblog/2009/11/autumnfall-green-roofs/</link>
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		<title>Summer Birds in Maryland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was out in Washington DC I was lucky enough to stay for a few days up on Ed Snodgrass&#8217;s Farm in Harford County, MD. Normally my approach to visiting foreign countries is to race about chasing a list and trying to see as much as I can!!! I return to the UK for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dustygedge.co.uk/roadblog/2009/09/summer-birds-in-maryland/</link>
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		<title>Green Roof Balcony &#8211; Hanover Square/London</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier in the year as part of my London leaders pledge I manages to get Lendlease Retail Ltd to install a small green roof on their London HQ. The roof in question was in fact a balcony 30m long and about 1m wide. The roof was installed over a weekend in January by  Garden Lounge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dustygedge.co.uk/roadblog/2009/09/green-roof-balcony-hanover-squarelondon/</link>
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		<title>Habitat Walls, Sand Walls and Green Roofs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A visit to Pestival at the weekend inspired me to write something on habitat walls, sand walls and of course green roofs! Nearly everywhere I have traveled in Switzerland and Germany, from the Black Forest to thuringia, to the high Alps, to animal parks, nature reserves and even Universities I have always encountered these features. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dustygedge.co.uk/roadblog/2009/09/habitat-walls-sand-walls-and-green-roofs/</link>
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		<title>Green roofs and strawbale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Green roofs and strawbale buildings is a complete eco-friendly way to build. I know that Amazonails have done quite a few buildings like this and John Little and are hoping to be running a workshop with them on this combined theme in November sometime. Keep an eye on greenroofstraining for more info or sign up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dustygedge.co.uk/roadblog/2009/09/green-roofs-and-strawbale/</link>
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		<title>Pestival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Popped up to Pestival for a couple of hours with my son. With all this twittering for tweehive day thought I should at least drag myself away from the computer and doing something a tad more interesting.
It was great &#8211; sitting at the tweehive cabaret wondering who was who. I am sure there were quite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dustygedge.co.uk/roadblog/2009/09/pestival/</link>
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		<title>Green Roof &#8211; Elliot County</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Picture courtesy Martha @Clark Elioak Farm
The small green roof we built on the Mall in DC back in late June has found a new home in Elliot City, Maryland. The constructio followed the principles in our e-guide and those we teach people on our DIY green roof training courses. I blogged about the Mall event [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dustygedge.co.uk/roadblog/2009/09/green-roof-elliot-county/</link>
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		<title>Barclays Green Roof &#8211; Highest green roof in the UK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of tweehive and Pestival do a few blog updates that I have been meaning to do for a while. I&#8217;ll be heading up to the South Bank soon but here is a little about the highest green roof in the UK. great story &#8211; Dr. Kadas was presenting her samples at Green Canary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dustygedge.co.uk/roadblog/2009/09/barclays-green-roof-highest-green-roof-in-the-uk/</link>
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