http://www.ditdotdat.org/bigcity/2007/02/american-ties/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:17:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.ditdotdat.org/bigcity/2007/02/american-ties/#comment-1482 othermachines Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:26:29 +0000 http://www.ditdotdat.org/bigcity/2007/02/american-ties/#comment-1482 I agree with Jon - cable ties are ugly. Twine is good; <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gilesbooth/92716878/" rel="nofollow">when we got our allotment I got a bit obsessive about getting as much plastic as I could out of our rubbish-strewn ground (pretty successfully)</a>. Not that I found many cable ties. Lots of bin-liners, plastic chicken wire and a lorra lorra carpets. Glass, pottery and metal I tended to leave, unless I thought it posed a danger to the children. I agree with Jon - cable ties are ugly. Twine is good; when we got our allotment I got a bit obsessive about getting as much plastic as I could out of our rubbish-strewn ground (pretty successfully). Not that I found many cable ties. Lots of bin-liners, plastic chicken wire and a lorra lorra carpets. Glass, pottery and metal I tended to leave, unless I thought it posed a danger to the children.

]]> http://www.ditdotdat.org/bigcity/2007/02/american-ties/#comment-1458 Jon Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:55:18 +0000 http://www.ditdotdat.org/bigcity/2007/02/american-ties/#comment-1458 Reusable ones are better, but I am fast coming round to the idea that string is nearly always best. I think it's because of how disgusting it looks when you see people being handcuffed with cable ties - they're getting bad connotations for me. Surely that lovely frayed gardening twine is brilliant for tomatoes and ideal for tying back other things in the garden because it rots away after about a season so it doesn't dig in when things grow. Reusable ones are better, but I am fast coming round to the idea that string is nearly always best. I think it’s because of how disgusting it looks when you see people being handcuffed with cable ties - they’re getting bad connotations for me. Surely that lovely frayed gardening twine is brilliant for tomatoes and ideal for tying back other things in the garden because it rots away after about a season so it doesn’t dig in when things grow.

]]> http://www.ditdotdat.org/bigcity/2007/02/american-ties/#comment-1457 Ally Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:37:50 +0000 http://www.ditdotdat.org/bigcity/2007/02/american-ties/#comment-1457 But if you have reusable ones you can use them for all sorts of fantastic things - keeping together chicken pens that you sometimes need to take apart every so often to clean out for example. Or as the catch for a chicken pen, on the grounds that foxes don't have opposable thumbs and can't work the little catch thingy that unclips them. Or keeping tomatoes up. It's the reusable-ness of them that's the point I think, rather than just the one-offness. But if you have reusable ones you can use them for all sorts of fantastic things - keeping together chicken pens that you sometimes need to take apart every so often to clean out for example. Or as the catch for a chicken pen, on the grounds that foxes don’t have opposable thumbs and can’t work the little catch thingy that unclips them. Or keeping tomatoes up. It’s the reusable-ness of them that’s the point I think, rather than just the one-offness.

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