Experiments in Living
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 14th, 2007
Let me introduce a weekly series for your delights - Wedding Wednesdays. The thinking behind this being that it will keep wedding talk strictly in its place and prevent it from taking over the blog :)
1 - Trim your guest list. Unless it is really important to you to have everyone you’ve ever known at your wedding, be [...]
Posted in Environmental Issues on Oct 28th, 2007
HTB and I occasionally have a wedding talk, and then the conversation turns to something else. You see, there must be something wrong with me, because I’m not all a-flutter about our impending nuptials. According to various wedding propaganda machines, the cost of the average wedding appears to be between £13,000 and £17,000. This is [...]
Posted in Environmental Issues, Inspiration on Oct 15th, 2007
So here is my contribution. A musing on the concept of the Car Club. The other day my curiosity led me to the Green Thing website and there was a section about joining a car club. Apparently, you either use a pay as you go system, or a monthly subscription, and on those occasions you [...]
Posted in Environmental Issues on Oct 8th, 2007
Found this on Lorigami’s blog. Our rubbish was collected this morning, so this is a great experiment to do. It’s interesting when you start to look at how much packaging certain items have, my personal bugbear being those little plastic trays that fruit and veg come in. Hard to recycle and totally pointless for the [...]
Posted in Environmental Issues, Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2007
This morning I walked to my yoga class instead of driving. It wasn’t really a big deal, it just meant I had to get up a little bit earlier . Actually, I was early for my class as it didn’t take as long to walk there as I thought it would (about half an [...]
