If you put one foot in front of the other, often enough, pretty soon you’ll discover that walking is the way to get about. Â No parking. Â No timetables. Â And, with a rucksack to hand, you can even schlep your things about too. Not really a huge discovery. Â Except that it’s got to the stage that …
Category archives: Moments
Eco audit: making your own entertainment
I don’t mean you have to gather round the piano. Â (But you can if you like.) I’m thinking about ways to relax, be with others, that are also not too draining on the environment. In my teens, it was books and music – and TV at points. Â The obligatory Friday night long soak in the …
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 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 …
Running errands
Yes. I own up. I am a list girl, and I am not ashamed of it. It works for food shopping (when I remember it – unlike this week, where I had to see whether I could work it out from memory). It works for family presents. It even works for Tintin books owned (and …