My Garden (May09)

It’s such a wonderful time of year for getting into the garden. I’ve actually managed [...]

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12
May
Regifting – eek (May09)

Photo: A rather well-wrapped present… I don’t just recycled my rubbish, I recycle presents too. [...]

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12
May
Rant about disposable napkins (Apr09)

“Do you ever find it annoying when you’re given wads of napkins and bags you [...]

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28
Apr
Off to Kenya and street lights closer to home (Mar09)

Denuded landscape near Mombasa Sustainable agriculture training plot near Mombasa   The offending street light [...]

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05
Mar
Shopping Trauma (Feb09)
18th February 2009

I don’t really like shopping – particularly when it entails actually going out of the [...]

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Yo Sushi is Wasteful (Dec08)

It’s a shame there’s not a Yo Sushi at Waterloo because that’s my regular train [...]

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20
Dec
Good riddance to US car companies (Nov08)

I sat next to a chap from Citicorp Bank for Sunday lunch at a pub [...]

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25
Nov
Quantumly awful (Nov08)

I’m not planning see a James Bond film again unless it’s radically different from Quantum [...]

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08
Nov
Turning on the heat… (Nov08)

  My eldest son sent me a text ‘demanding’ that I put on the heating [...]

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08
Nov
Eat Dorset Food Fair (Oct08)

Another sunny weekend for the Eat Dorset Food Fair. Set in the magnificent park at [...]

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24
Oct
Printer Horrors (Oct08)

I’ve been having problems with my printer.   Actually, it’s been annoying me for quite some [...]

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14
Oct
Recycling Dreamland (Oct08)

  Chris Dow at Closed Loop recycling  in Dagenham was enthusiastic and knowledgeable.  He describes [...]

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09
Oct
Autumn pleasures… (Sept08)

Picking apples and blackberries in the beautiful autumn sun has only been surpassed listening to [...]

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29
Sep
Yeovil to Naples by train (Aug08)

Up to Waterloo and across to St Pancras, we caught the Eurostar to Paris. But [...]

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09
Aug
Family friendly films – a rant (Aug08)

This is a rant! Why make a Batman movie that’s not suitable for children – [...]

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09
Aug
Summer produce (Jul08)

The weekend wasn’t glorious – certainly not the weather anyway. But I’ve been really enjoying [...]

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07
Jul