Archive: June 2009

Tories launch Climate Campaign in the Heat

In yesterday evening’s sweltering heat (it hit 30.4 celsius in St James’s Park at one point in the day), the Conservative Party launched their Climate Campaign. It might have been better called a ‘global warming’ campaign given the heat of the Century Club’s roof terrace. I’m sure Nigel Lawson would have preferred that (he reckons [...]

Getting round the tube strike

Seeing as it looks like we have a tube strike starting in London this evening, we thought we’d share a few ideas to get round more easily.
Bike
Hop on your bike and you’re completely free of relying on someone else’s timetable. If you really want one though, you could consider using a BikeTube.  This was set [...]

Bowl Patrol

The nice folks at Method sent us a free bottle of their toilet cleaner, Bowl Patrol.  Thought we should make that clear in case you think that changes what we say about their product.  Incidentally, it doesn’t.  If we thought the product was bad, we’d probably write a bad review and send them an apologetic [...]

Cradle to Frying Pan

I’m always slightly conflicted when I find out that people we revere are not all they are made out to be.  On the one hand, I’m a stickler for finding out as much about things as possible, so I’m almost always skeptical about things I hear.  On the other hand, you need heros and role [...]

Natalie tells us we’re all Neighbours

You may have guessed I was struggling to come up with witty titles at this stage.  Anyway, back to the matter at hand. Ecover’s latest campaign is a project with Water Aid to help supply villages in Ethiopia with access to water.  To help promote the project, they have Natalie Imbruglia telling us how important [...]