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Plastic Free Partying

It was a bit of while ago now, but the summer party season got started in early June with this year’s birthday for the youngest...

Waitrose Unpacked – A New Start or a False Dawn?

Tuesday morning, I packed a box full of Tupperware in various sizes and threw it in the boot of the car, my destination the Waitrose...

To Bin Or Not To Bin

In a recent post we mentioned how Wallingford now boasts a recycling station where we can dump our used toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes...

Bottom Priority

Loo roll is essential, and it’s not something that I can really make myself. But go down to your local supermarket and all brands are...

Always look after your teeth

Always look after your teeth It’s really important when raising kids is to teach them to look after their teeth, even when they’ve got...

Easter “wasted” in Devon

Easter holiday challenge to try and go away for a week and still keep to the spirit of plastic redacting. Could family Harrison manage...

Being Ill Means Falling off the Wagon

So as alluded in the previous post of Mr Harrison’s litter picking experiences, we’ve been a house of the sick the last couple of weeks...

This week I picked up something nasty…

Woke up on Tuesday feeling like death warmed up. Was still feeling pretty awful come Saturday morning, when I’d volunteered my services...

Wellies and the Church

Disaster! Younger child’s rubber wellies have sprung a leak. Annoying hole right on the ankle is beyond the power of patching up with...

Where does all the recycling go on holiday?

I’ve made a big deal in previous posts about a lot of plastic waste going off to China, which doesn’t seem like the most sustainable...

Days out with the kids

The joys of half term this week which means lots of day trips to keep the kids out of mischief. Mr Harrison tends to handle the first...

Pasta and rice

Pasta (in its many, many forms) and rice are a core foundation of several family meals in our house, not to mention the couscous, risotto...

Saucy

It’s the dregs of the last of the squeezy bottle of tomato ketchup this week. Mr Harrison threw it in the recycling bin the other day,...

It was a dark and stormy night...

Day of judgement this week: how much plastic is in the black bin after a month of trying to reduce plastic waste? To our delight, not...

We have a lidl...

Exciting times in Wallingford – the opening of our new, sparkling Lidl on Friday has had the local population flocking to see what the...

This Sceptical Isle

My curse in life – well, one of them – is that I can usually see both sides of an argument. If I can see the point in doing something,...

A Nice Cuppa Tea

Now that we’ve tackled the milk, time to sort out the tea. Now, saying this very quietly, I don’t really drink tea – it’s a Mr Harrison...

Fruit and Veg!

The fruit bowl is running empty and we’ve been freezer-raiding for veg in our house the last couple of days. Time to tackle plastic...

Sainsbury's - Mission: Impossible?

I walked into the darkened room and, discerning a chair in front of me, sat down. A projector whirred into life, and threw an image of a...

What's this all about?

A lot of plastic waste was generated by our family this Christmas, so we decided our new year’s resolution would be to tackle reducing this as much as possible. This blog is about how we go about this, which is likely to be a bit of a challenge for a typical 2.4 children family!  

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Meet Vicky

Loves Spreadsheets, Lego (could be a problem…), Being Better at packing than Mr Harrison, Country Walks That End with a Pub

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