The cabin of a small sloop lying at anchor in the stream, and laden with garden mould, afforded us the only available shelter.

The window had been burst in by a mass of garden mould, which flowed over the table upon which we had been sitting and lay about our feet.

"When the local authority offered them to us, we jumped at the chance to put sustainability into action, rather than filling up landfill tips with what is a highly-desirable garden mould."

He calls for seven glasses and some garden mould; fills the glasses with it; sticks in each a piece of bamboo, over which he drops some fig-leaves, each perforated with a hole in the centre large enough to admit the stick.