An Invincible Summer “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” These are the words of existential writer Albert Camus, who wrote The Plague, two years after the end of WWll. Today, on yet another interminably grey wet day, sunshine arrived briefly (via a Read more…
Less is more! At some point, between my childhood and now, we went from towels the size of my grandmother’s to ones the size of the towels we now have. My towel is three times the size and thickness of my grandmother’s towel. I blame the movies, and Marilyn Monroe! Read more…
Repurposing plastic with a sewing machine Tonight I decided to experiment with the sewing skills I’ve been developing over the last few weeks to see if I could repurpose plastic. I’ve had a beautiful old ceramic lamp stand without a shade that I haven’t been able to use, and Read more…
Transforming surplus veggies into stock powder For today’s new action for A Year in a Day I experimented with creating veggie stock powder to use our surplus and reduce packaging. The basket of saffron milk cap mushrooms we foraged yesterday were more than we needed for dinner so I sliced Read more…
Earth Hour and finishing a granny square rug Tonight, as I switched off the lights for Earth Hour, I crocheted my first granny square in over 40 years, using up the bits of wool left over from all the things my mother and grandmother knitted and crocheted when I Read more…
Today I started early making presents for Christmas Probably the most important lesson I’ve learnt in life is that leaving things to the last minute is a recipe for stress and anxiety. Leaving action on climate change and nuclear disarmament until 100 seconds before midnight, according to the Doomsday Read more…
Today I learnt how to help wombats One thing leads to another. After my post on lifting weights last week, Libby offered me some personal weight training this morning at 7am so I could get stronger! I needed that ‘strength’ later in the day to face the stories I Read more…
Retro fashion: Vintage knitting needle bracelet Fashion shouldn’t cost the earth, so today my action for A Year in a Day was to take a little time out to play and reimagine a joyous future in which wearing Retro was the norm. I rummaged through my old knitting needles Read more…
Climate Action Now Today I signed up to participate in Earth Hour, this coming Saturday 26 March at 8.30pm via this link and I ordered FREE Climate Action Now signs and bin stickers from this link …. just like the one in this photo by Jo Fraser: Read more…
Giving X-rays a new life! Did you know that X-ray films contain silver in the form of halides, which can be extracted and converted into pure silver! The more we recycle silver, the less we’ll need to mine for it. You can now drop off your X-rays at the Read more…
Eating Green to limit global warming The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C WORLD is a new report by the C40 Cities Climate Group, academics at Leeds University, and engineering firm Arup. It addresses the important role cities play in reducing consumption-based emissions to limit global warming. The Read more…