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[...]

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[...]

08
Nov
Eat Dorset Food Fair (Oct08)

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

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[...]

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
NT – Energy efficient light bulbs (Jun08)

ABOUT TIME TOO – NATIONAL TRUST ENERGY SAVING LIGHT BULBS I was a tenant of[...]

30
Jun
A Trip to Waste Tip (Jun08)

Dimmer landfill site near Castle Cary in Somerset is unusual.  It has a rather beautiful[...]

22
Jun
Washing lines in Dubrovnik (Jun08)

Where bombs and missiles fell in the early 1990s, I stood looking at washing lines[...]

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Jun