This is not my... Week 8 - 07
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there is daylight and there is the weekend...!! |
Ahhh it's gonna be a good one.
Rushing as ever but just got an email about cheap buses so thought I would mention it.
To be honest I am a train fan.
But the bus is often cheaper.
And I am a fan of cheap! (Plus if it gets a bit dark and depressing you can always pretend you are in a really cool old American movie.)
Lots of £1 fares from National Express at the minute which means that we can all go galavanting round the country willy nilly with hardly a dent to the wallet.
Public transport is sooooo 2007.
Fun.
Anyhow - have a brilliant weekend.
Susie, Ollie and La x
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Check out that sunshine!
Time to break out of hibernation and... |
clean!
Woo hoo.
(Go with me here I am trying to make it sound more exciting as I have so much to do.)
But cleaning does bring with it a few problems.
One of which has got to be all of the eeeeeevil cleaning products.
But fear not - for there is....
The amazing Enjo cloth!!
Technically I haven't yet tried these but they look great.
Basically they are cloths that attract the dirt, germs et al so you don't need to use any bleaches and soaps. And testimonials say that they really do work.
Definitely going to check them out... just as soon as I get through the pile of filing...
Why didn't I do it while it was cold and nasty?!
x
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in a spot of dreaming ever so often... |
I hopped on to check out the Climate Change Blogspot to get up-to-date with what has been going on and found a great piece on Martin Luther King.
He indeed had a dream.
One in which black and white children could play together without recrimination.
And - many places the world over - they do.
The power of sharing that dream was no small thing.
The point that the article was making was that if we aim big and get a little inspired then there is little that we can't do.
I like that idea.
A lot.
"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men." - Goethe
Great old video clip on there too - take a look.
x
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But it is always nice to be more successful... |
Friend's of the Earth ran the brilliant Big Ask campaign to get a climate bill introduced into parliament.
But the bill needs to be a good one.
So they need our support again.
They are asking that we email our MP's to take a bit more action. And made it really easy by setting it all up here.
So get your good deed in for the day and be free to spend the rest philandering, stealing and being cruel to orphans....
Kidding!
Have a good one whatever you do end up doing though.
x
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What a beautiful thing... |
Dropping like flies round here.
I got ill. Ollie got ill. Lara - erm - didn't but did get very riled when she called the restaurant over the road from my hse and they wouldn't deliver me soup (thanks for trying La!!!)
On the road to recovery though courtesy of some of that energy saving sleep (in fact - A LOT of that energy saving sleep - hmmmm).
So back full of beans tmrw for a week of explorations.
Have a brilliant start to yours xx
This section will be a daily, well - Monday to Friday daily, editorial. (Have to keep some time aside to keep up the ritual wine drinking / dancing as if being chased by bees.)
I promise to make it my mission to investigate something each day on exciting forays to find new stuff, fun stuff, ethical stuff and anything involving break dancing men with extremely toned physiques.
Let me know if you think of something I should go and visit or if you have any great ideas or information. (Any dodgy suggestions will be politely declined... or not so politely, depending entirely on what they are!)
For today, though, please just have a look below to find out how this whole thing came about. I hope that you are having a lovely morning.
See you tomorrow,
Susie x
Background to This is not my...
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What is this site all about?
Well, as all good ventures do, it started in the pub with the ominous words "I know, why don't we...?" |
What was different, though, was that it still seemed like a good plan in the morning (and somewhat less injurious than trying out extreme ironing, the other suggestion...)
Anyway - once again we had been supping beers and putting the world to rights when someone mentioned the unmentionable, despite our disaffection with the state of the world, none of us was actually doing anything positive to change it.
Whether this was complacency or apathy, who knows - but we were definitely leaving it to others to make decisions and take action for us on issues about which we felt strongly.
We live in a free society, but often things seem to happen as a fait accompli. The war in Iraq, ID cards, the fact that we will eventually succumb to watching some of Big Brother no matter how hard we try...
And we just go along with it. But that is ok, right? I mean, we aren't exactly encouraging the abuse of others - are we?
Ok - so maybe my new top might have been made under less-than-perfect conditions and I suppose that means I am supporting those conditions, but - I have to buy something to wear, so what other choice do I have?
And that was the problem. What - and where - are the choices?
So we decided to investigate. Surely in this free society we have other options; we just need to know how to find them.
So we went online. There are some great directories already for ethical and/or environmentally friendly products, but for us these didn't go far enough. We were on a bit of a roll and decided that these products deserved more active promotion.
We wanted to make as many people as possible aware of the practical things they can do to live life in a better way.
So on this site we will provide information about easy, positive and ethical consumer choices. These are choices that won’t necessarily cost you more, either.
In our directories you will find environmentally friendly and ethical companies and products across the following categories:
Clothes
Energy
Food and Drink
Health and Beauty
Home and Garden
Office
Recycling
Restaurants
You will also find plenty more to lure you back to the site on a regular basis. So come back to have a wee look.
Plus we will be working on video's, events and curious antics to keep important issues in the public eye – and provide us with much entertainment and amusement at the same time.
Give us a shout if you want to get involved!
Anyhow - take a look. Explore… investigate… probe away.
We hope you like it; we hope you use it.
