I’ll confess this now. Â I’m writing in bed. Â It’s possibly my favourite place to write. Â And, when you get the luxury of the house to yourself, you get to do what you want a little more. But another reason for writing in bed is because it’s cold. Â It’s still February. Â Snow is coming and going. …
Category archives: Eco
Eco audit: only reduce
‘Only connect’ is the classic injunction by E. M. Forster – that we might reach out beyond ourselves, amongst other things. Â In environmental terms, my attempt at encouraging myself starts with: only reduce. Forster might well have been surprised at how well his phrase works in the multi-connected world of today. Â But our world may …
Eco audit: buying containers that can be reused
We have a friend whose mum would never ‘throw away’ a jar, all year – because they were all needed for the annual jam making. Containers were not just for one use – they were for multiple. And preserving makes a virtue out of this. So what do you do when you’re in the supermarket, …
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Eco audit: going against the dominant food culture
There’s nothing like Not Eating the Same as Others to make you stand out. Â It doesn’t seem to matter what your difference is. Â It gets trickier. Â Sometimes you are seen as being Difficult. In your teens, it is important to find a few ways to be different from your family. Â To embrace causes. Â To have …
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Eco audit: buying fresh from farmers
Childhood is not complete without a little pick-your-own strawberry activity. Â (And of course eating, while picking.) I don’t know that my parents were choosing to do it for ‘support the farmers’ reasons. Â I think we did it because it was fun, because the fruit was so fresh, and because it made a family outing out …