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Plastic Free July – Day Four – Our First Baby Wipe Free Day in Four Years

Today I finally made home-made baby wipes. The pressure of winning at Plastic Free July has powered me through three months of procrastination to do what turned out to be a 10 minute job. I cut up...

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Plastic Free July – Day One

I've decided to go plastic free in July. Apparently this is a thing. I'd never heard about Plastic Free July until someone mentioned it to me a few weeks ago. Why July? Who knows, but it seems like...

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Is disorganisation the real reason for plastic waste?

In my case, yes. I have very good intentions. I want to grow all my food from scratch, then make delicious meals from it that I take to work every day. I want to only ever drink tap water from my...

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link to An Eco-friendly(ish) Fairy Garden for Fairies, Butterflies, Bees and Kids

An Eco-friendly(ish) Fairy Garden for Fairies, Butterflies, Bees and Kids

Last week I spent £20 on a solar powered resin toadstool fairy house. For the last seven days I've been deciding whether to take it back to the shop or not for the following reasons: Joni...

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link to Chester Zoo – tears, tantrums and orangutans

Chester Zoo – tears, tantrums and orangutans

Taking kids to a zoo is a great idea, right? Well this is what we naively thought. Instead of it being a fun time for all, it was a horror show of epic Joni tantrums as she recoiled in terror at...

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Wasteful Wilko Crafting

When you think of kids' crafts, you might think of houses made from cereal boxes or rockets made from washing up bottles. But this Blue Peter fuelled utopia is no more. Now 99% of children's craft...

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