It’s nearly the end of October and this is my first blog post of the month. What have I been doing with my life for goodness’ sake?! Well, I…
- Made a lemon drizzle cake. Quite lemony but not too lemony
- Signed up to 12 Days: A Copy and Paste Project, if you’re not signed up yet, chop chop!
- Had a wood-burning stove fitted and now we have little need for central heating of an evening
- Opened a Flickr account
- Learnt what is a crop-a-dile, that it matters what kind of transparency film you put through your printer and that my puppy has an unhealthy obsession with pheasants
- Had a go at stamping with some lovely Banana Frog stamps and discovered I like it!
- Went to the Knitting and Stitching Show with the lovely Kirsty Neale
- Suffered the cold from hell
- Was told by a group of kids and teenagers that they’re jaded by climate change and need to know how doing their small action will lead to a big impact, which led me to…
- … discover that if UK shoppers picked up half as many carrier bags, in a year 90,000 tonnes of oil would be saved and the subsequent reduction in green-house gases is the equivalent of taking 50,000 cars off the road
- Made a lovely bag out of a boring freebie one
- Harvested my maincrop potatoes from their tower of tyres, not a bad crop for a first-time grower
- Created my first piece of ‘art’
- Made leaf bunting and an autumn wreath for DaisyGreenMagazine.co.uk
- And, quite significantly, changed from full to part-time employment at children’s newspaper First News so I can spend more time on a lot of the above.
I'd say that sounds like a pretty good month. :)
That carrier bag fact is staggering - I had no idea the impact was quite so big. Even though I always re-use the carrier bags I take (as bin bags, for carrying lunches, etc..) I am DEFINITELY on a mission to find myself a bigger handbag so I can properly fit in a cloth version. You're like my conscience, only more sensible and much better company!
Posted by: Kirsty | Thursday, 29 October 2009 at 07:13
That sounds like a very busy month! If only I had similarly good excuses for posting so little this month.
I've just had a look at your Flickr stream, there are some gorgeous things that you've made!
Posted by: Babaloo | Thursday, 29 October 2009 at 11:34