Reading Time: 8 minutesWondering if you can achieve plastic-free food shopping and ditch plastic from your food shopping haul? You wouldn’t be alone. I’ve been thinking about it recently and have been going food shopping with my late Nan. This is metaphorically speaking, as we’re going down Memory Lane back to the 1970s. I find these trips enlightening. Not […]
Big Green Issues
Work, Waste and Consumerism
Reading Time: 6 minutesI have been gone for just over a year. By that I mean from the blog, and for the earlier part of the year in many respects, the home, without even venturing far from home. Work, waste and consumerism been on the rise in our household this past few months. How can that be? Why […]
Craftivism, Activism, and Why We Must Keep Speaking Out
Reading Time: 8 minutesCraftivism is getting attention. If there are issues that you feel you must speak out about, but taking to the streets with a placard fills you with dread, this may be for you. If you’re a crafter (or are prepared to buy the skills of a crafter) you may be able to influence people with […]
Gas-guzzling Clothes: Cut Your Clothing Footprint
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat are gas guzzling clothes, and why cut your clothing footprint? I recently came across this phrase, and it resonated with me as I’ve been thinking, for a while now, about not buying clothes. Read this to understand some of the problems that fast fashion, and a throwaway wardrobe, causes for us all and the […]
Wovember: Remember Remember the 5th of Wovember
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 5th of November….. that’s when I should have started Wovember. If you haven’t been Wovemberised, it is a month to wear as much pure wool as possible to show your appreciation of the wonderful stuff; to come out in support of the sheep farmers who care for the woolly creatures that produce the wonderful […]
