16th June 2006
These annual, perennial and sometimes shrubby plants are often grown by amateur gardeners, and cultivated for their culinary and sometimes medicinal uses, although they can make attractive specimen plants in mixed borders. In most gardens, a small plot ca...
16th June 2006
Over The Garden Wall with Oaky: 10 Great Gardening Tips & Ideas
by John Elliott aka Oaky Wood 2006
Here is a nice handy collection of my favourite gardening tips & ideas that may make life in your garden that little bit easier, or at least show you th...
16th June 2006
Over The Garden Wall With Oaky: Buy Yourself A Small Greenhouse And Save Money
by John Elliott aka Oaky Wood
Looking out over my garden wall, just to see what ravages winter has left me, I saw my first casualties, a few broken panes of glass in the sm...
16th June 2006
The 15 Most Powerful Healing Herbs in Your Kitchen
by John Elliott aka Oaky wood
Since ancient times our ancestor's harvested the many herbs and spices that grew wild around them, mixed potions, and treated ailments. Man was after all a hunter-gathere...
16th June 2006
What Are Our Own Perceptions?
by John Elliott aka Oaky Wood
Yes exactly what are our own perceptions, all to often we allow our past to rule our today's, and govern what we will become tomorrow. We are told we are useless by our peers so we go through...
16th June 2006
What is an Agony Uncle or Aunt? Why should anyone need one?
By John Elliott Aka Oaky Wood
Today I sat and pondered on a very fundamental question, of what exactly is an Agony Uncle or Aunt, and why should anyone really need one. Well I can say this ...
16th June 2006
10 Great Uses For Ordinary Vinegar Around The Home
by John Elliott aka Oaky Wood
Almost every home has this little gem in their larder as a food flavouring, but have you ever considered its many other properties too.
Vinegar is slightly acid, not t...
16th June 2006
REMEMBERING YOUR FIRST KISS
By John Elliott Aka Oaky Wood
Do you remember your fist KISS; was it really how you imagined it would be? Well let me continue. If your first kiss was disappointing, was it through lack of knowledge of how a kiss should be,...
16th June 2006
Our Children and The Runaway Train
by John Elliott aka Oaky Wood
Michael Holiday, the 1950's crooner sang about "The Runaway Train" and how it went rolling down the track when it "Blew". Today the runaway train of children the world over, are very muc...
16th June 2006
Conquering 'The Pits' And Our Own Pendulums of Fear
By John Elliott Aka Oaky Wood
The famous horror movie "The Pit and The Pendulum" starring Vincent Price, which was written by Edgar Alan Poe, the definitive and ultimate master of suspense and fear, ...
16th June 2006
Creating True and Perceived Value For Your Website
By John Elliott Aka Oaky Wood
Creating true or perceived value, in the eyes of your potential customers, and indeed future members or subscribers to your website, ezine or newsletter, begins with YOU ...
16th June 2006
I Became A Single Parent, And I'm A Man
by John Elliott aka Oaky Wood
After years of living a lie, with a wife who didn't show me, or our children the kind of love most would normally expect from a partner, I found myself alone and trying to come to t...
16th June 2006
I'm A Single Parent; and Male
by John Elliott aka Oaky Wood
I am a 55-year-old single parent living in the UK, and male.
All too often one hears of the plight of single parents that are female. Articles about absent fathers, or bad dads. Tales of a...
