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5 things to try this New Year
1. Send your pre-loved and read books on a journey around the world to make new friends and touch other people’s lives – check out the bookcrossing site for a free and inspired way of getting connected with others through the power of imagination and literature.
2. Start a blog. Everyone has something interesting to say [...]
5 reasons to get your running shoes out
1.       It’s free!
2.       Blow the cobwebs away from the excesses of Christmas.
3.       Get away from Christmas TV and get your heart rate pumping.
4.       Have your chance to listen to exactly your kind of music, with no interruptions.
5.       Avoid the shops, the sales and the hordes and opt for a scenic run instead.
5 things to appreciate about Winter
The chance to cover up, wear chunky jumpers, thick coats and cosy scarves, hats and gloves.
Taking the opportunity to relish staying in and keeping warm by the fire, knowing that it would be mad to go outside in the blustery wind and rain.
On a dry clear day when the sun is low in the sky, [...]
Big Lunch, Big Community and Human Warming
In this day and age when communities have weakened, there are too many of us leading lonely or isolated lives and we just don’t know our neighbours anymore, some streets around the UK have been starting a Jubilee style party revolution.
The idea of The Big Lunch was conceived at The Eden Project and came to [...]
5 Ways to Avoid The World Cup
So it seems the whole country has gone football crazy and adorned their cars and houses with red and white flags, but what do you do if you just want to avoid The World Cup frenzy?

Support an alternative Three Lions. For example take a lovely walk around the heritage city of Bath in Somerset and [...]
5 Eco-friendly Facts About The World Cup
Taken from Do The Green Thing – a non-for-profit site dedicated to inspiring you on how to lead a greener life.

9 teams competing in the world cup will be wearing jerseys made from recycled plastic bottles. These teams are Brazil, the Netherlands, Portugal, England, New Zealand, Australia, Serbia, Slovenia and Korea, are among [...]
The Sustainable Small Business
The Sustainable Small Business
By Sally Lever
If you’ve made the decision to live more sustainably and have left the Rat Race in order to set up in self-employment, it makes sense to incorporate sustainability into the new business plan. That way your business is run in alignment with your interests and values and working in it [...]
Who the heck is Herman?
Someone gave me the gift of Herman today. Herman is a friendship cake that you cannot buy but you can give away. “Herman grows slowly but surely because of special yeasting process and it takes days before you can eat him,” say the instructions that accompanied my container of doughy goo.
Herman appears to be the [...]
This is not just a Craft Fair, this is an Art Design & Craft Open House
A couple in Bath, wanting to reintroduce some creativity into their lives from their Art College days have brought together a cooperative or makers to put on an Art Design & Craft Open House. Ben & Pip Wynne decided to host their first Open House last November which gave them a target to get making for. [...]
Climate & Society: Our pick of some top reads to make you think
Here’s our latest pick of top reads to make you think on climate and society:
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Sowing the seeds of love – what to plant in October

Twine marks my planted seeds

Our latest visit to the allotment has resulted in the sowing of spring greens, onions, garlic and broad beans. I have been frantically trying to find out what I can plant at this time of year, being October and out of season. So, these were a few contenders I had available in my seed box. I planted the spring greens, onions and garlic together in one bed and broad beans in what will be my legume bed. Only the spring greens, ironically, will be potentially ready to harvest this side of Christmas.

The others will lie dormant underground waiting for next Spring. How exciting! At least something must burst forth from the earth…. so long as the frost or bind weed don’t get their claws into my little seedlings.