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Ever since last Friday Goldilocks has been urgently reminding me that today is World Maths Day.  She is clearly gripped by Maths Day fever, I’m not sure why.  Are we meant to give presents on World Maths Day, on this most festive of festive days?  Perhaps Halllmark have already capitalised on it, maybe people across the country are [...]

We had our first proper frost this weekend.  I like frost.  According to allotment lore it will make my parsnips really sweet and tasty.  Actually I dug one up about two weeks ago because I couldn’t wait any longer for the frost.  I was dying to find out what was underneath the soil and leafy [...]

I thought our Off-Road Soup event for www.350.org day of international action was going to be a complete disaster.  Last Saturday the sky turned black and was full of rain all morning.  Not a single person passed by our house.  On the grounds that I didn’t have a plan B however, I set Goldilocks and [...]

For my Blog Action Day post on Climate Change I’d like to share with you a family discussion we had recently.  You may find it eerily familiar !
The Man from Salford started it.  I was quite surprised.  It is not like him to instigate environmental initiatives, especially if they might affect the contents of his stomach.  What he proposed was that we [...]

I’d almost come to the end of writing today’s post.  Just a bit of editing needed – Granny Goo says I always write sentences that are too long and complex – FULL STOP Granny Goo!  Anyway I don’t like editing much so I went for a trip around the blogosphere, always good for a little [...]

Here is a picture of Willow trying not to get her feet wet, the towpath has pretty much reverted to its winter state.  I’ve never known a dog who is so fussy about her feet.  I’ve had to clip her claws this week as well, so now she’s really not talking to me.  Thanks to the [...]

My friend Joseph, aged 2½, grew a runner bean at a toddler activity group.  Sadly Joseph and his family have virtually no outdoor space. Despite my protestations that you really don’t need more than space for a pole, they decided to give me their bean to put in our garden.  Just so you can check Joseph, this is [...]

I’m always slightly baffled by the slow, grinding machinations of international politics.  I’m never sure at which point a decision has actually been made.  My bafflement was not dispelled by last week’s G8 summit.  There were distractions, fair points (Why G8 and not G absolutely everybody?) and there was broad consensus. 
There seemed to be a [...]

If we’d ever bothered to get married in the first place, this is the point where The Man from Salford would divorce me.  He is already on the defensive because I suggested that the problems he’s experiencing with his knee at the moment might be exacerbated by his love of bacon sandwiches.  But the subject of [...]

Toxic chemicals are a fact of everyday life.  Undoubtedly many chemicals have done much to improve human life, but many more have been proven over time to have had disastrous effects on both our health and the environment.  If you want to learn more about toxic chemicals and their prevalence in our lives you could [...]