So I’ll start with the disclaimer. Â This month, I’m planning to write about the environment. Â I am not a scientist. Â I am not an expert. Â So I am not making pronouncements with authority (although I might reference some links to back up what I say). But I am finding that I want to do something …
Category archives: Eco
Not a good name for a car
Wasn’t sure whether to post this on Twitter or Facebook, but thought perhaps the blog was just the place and so that way it wouldn’t disappear below a whole load of other posts that quickly! Renault’s marketing people have – as the title suggests – given a very poor name to their new eco car. …
Europe in the spring
Paris in the spring…With a few more days to go of nights drawing in, it’s harder to imagine a time where the light will become clearer again, even beautiful. There is something about spring light, and the promise it holds of cheer now, and cheerful times to come. For me, spring is also linked to …
Back fill
It’s a gardening term, isn’t it? You dig a trench, and move the soil back into it. In this case, with Christmas around the virtual furrow, it’s time to back fill some more stories onto the blog, so that there’s something there for people to read when you eventually send them their Yuletide email. Last …
Reading rats and book worms
Sometimes, a title comes to me, and I know I have to use it. I’ll bung it down in the notebook, waiting for a point at which I can write about it. And following a holiday to a house whose inhabitants love books just as much as Dan and I, it seems a suitable time. …