{"id":99,"date":"2006-04-21T21:52:08","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/uncategorized\/bens_bird_boxes\/"},"modified":"2006-04-21T21:52:08","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T21:52:08","slug":"bens_bird_boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/living-in-the-uk\/bens_bird_boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben&#8217;s Bird Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/bensbirdboxes2.jpg\" title=\"Bensbirdboxes2\" alt=\"Bensbirdboxes2\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bensbirdboxes.com\">Ben&#8217;s Bird Boxes<\/a> are handmade by Ben out of recycled estate agents signs, and I bought my dad one for christmas which he duly fixed to the garage wall a couple of weekends ago.<\/p>\n<p>I found out that Ben was inspired by a trip to Africa where he saw how everyday waste products were crafted into products and sold in markets. I remember seeing this in Cape Town and my day in <a href=\"http:\/\/dotsandspaces.typepad.com\/dots\/2005\/05\/khayelitsha.html\">khayelitsha<\/a>. I bought a few things made by the local workers&#8217; co-operative &#8211; you can have a look at them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dotsandspaces\/search\/tags:recycled\/\">here at Flickr.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>It got me thinking about other bits and pieces that we throw away and how we could find some uses for them &#8211; this is a theme that&#8217;s often explored in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readymademag.com\/\">ready made mag<\/a>, but I&#8217;m afraid the results don&#8217;t always hit the mark.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, buy a bird box from Ben &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure its the best time of year, you&#8217;ll have to check with him, but they make funky homes for feathered friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben&#8217;s Bird Boxes are handmade by Ben out of recycled estate agents signs, and I bought my dad one for christmas which he duly fixed to the garage wall a couple of weekends ago. I found out that Ben was inspired by a trip to Africa where he saw how everyday waste products were crafted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-the-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}