A podcast on a Monday morning, whatever next! Today I am reflecting, and acting on, ideas in a wonderful free audio interview with the poet David Whyte. I am only half way through it and I highly recommend it – I shall be listening to the rest just as soon as I have finished this. [...]
Me and a Cornish cream tea at the Eden project
Food waste, production and transport are all things to consider. I picked December deliberately for this topic because Christmas time, as with many other things, is typically a time of over-indulgence. Although my wise hubby, who eats like a mouse compared to my [...]
A little success
Well sometimes life has a funny way of delivering what you hope for, right at the final moment. There I was returning from a stroll through Norton Common. Whilst I was out I was thinking about this post and the sad fact that I’d made no progress on the neighbour front. Then [...]
This is the final post on water because next week I’ll be launching the theme for October – transport and travel. So what have I learnt?
If you place your focus on something you tend to make it happen
Not exactly a surprise but pleasing to see that being conscious about and [...]
At the moment I’m exploring the area of sustainability and will be writing more on this over the next few months. As a result, I have recently started following Sally Lever’s blog on sustainable living. The post on ‘Living within our means’ was particularly thought-provoking. In it [...]
If you see a squirrel run out in front of you whilst driving/cycling, do you look it in the eye and carry on or do you (having checked the mirrors, of course) swerve? My immediate reaction is to swerve. I like squirrels and I’ve no wish to be responsible for dispatching one to [...]
Channel 4, as part of their Alternative Election (for the UK General Election happening today), have an interesting activity on their website – Chop or Not. The idea is you get to decide which items of public expenditure you’d chop and which you’d keep. From the results, they’re building up a picture of how [...]
I’m sitting here trying not to hyperventilate over my ‘lack of time’. My own doing as I’ve agreed to meet a friend for lunch and a walk. And I’ve been catching up on emails rather than doing other things. To calm myself, I’m remembering two things I’ve read in the last 24 hours.
The Second Noble Truth
As part [...]
I’ve just read an article in the Harvard Business Review (Sept 2009) ‘Death by Information Overload’ by Paul Hemp. A couple of interesting things came up for me. The first was that many companies seem to be investing time and money in developing systems and tools to help staff manage the amount of information and [...]
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