When I say dominoes, I really don’t mean little old men in cafes in warm countries, facing off against each other. I mean a set of little wooden tiles that you can do pretty much anything with. Â A further train journey item. (Lest it be thought that we spend all our time on trains – …
Category archives: Art and visual
Game on: hunt the miniscule object
You know the one. It’s usually Hunt the Thimble – but why limit it? It can really be any miniscule object of your choice. (Not too miniscule – you do want to find it again. Unless you don’t mind feeding the vacuum cleaner more than usual.) 1) Hunt the Thimble We ended up with a …
Eco audit: sew far, sew good
I feel I am entering dangerous waters here. Â I am about to attempt to write about something that I have not so much experience of. Sewing. I know I’m allowed to write about writing, reading, food, and so on, because they are such familiar aspects of life to me. I have my opinions all worked …
Eco audit: to buy or not to buy
However strongly we feel about the environment, it’s hard to ignore the fact that society is making things easier for us – as well as harder. Among all the encouragements to spend are the ones in the grey area: the spending that’s ‘OK because the products are environmentally friendly’. As the analogy goes: we all …
Eco audit: new perspectives
Right at the end of my teens, I got a bucket load of new perspective. I lived abroad for half a year. I may not have backpacked around South America, or lived in a mud hut, but I went far enough to get some fresh perspective. Going to a country on the other side of …