Lucy on April 6th, 2008

I love snow, but it makes me feel guilty.
I love the peace and tranquility that follows a whiteout, where everything looks clean and bright, and sounds are muffled and cushioned. But I find myself worrying about how the wildlife copes. How the birds can feed and drink, how other animals can graze or scavenge. So [...]

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Lucy on March 23rd, 2008

Here’s a little quickie for you from RD.com
“12 ways to become an environmentalist and increase home energy savings without changing your lazy lifestyle”
 1. Skip A Trip
2. Hire Someone To Seal Up Your House
3. Work from Home (check!)
4. Drive a Fuel-Efficient Car
5. Use Cruise Control
6. Cool Your Water Heating Bills
7. Don’t Wash the Dishes- use a [...]

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Lucy on January 28th, 2008

I’ve been running a chat forum for a few months now. It’s basically a place where like-minded souls can chat about many subjects including green living, foodie subjects and recipes, rural issues and politics, smallholding, sustainable living and allotmenteering, arts, crafts and traditional trade skills, health & wellbeing, or just partake in a bit of [...]

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Lucy on October 23rd, 2007

For those of you that view my blog using Internet Explorer - well good grief, only tonight have I realised what a garbled jumbled mess you’ve been seeing. Got Mr Programming Guru (Rich) on the case! Really, my advice is that this blog is best viewed in Firefox, where it looks decidedly more ordered and [...]

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