This blog is normally just about London, but this post is about Guangzhou in China (sometimes known as Canton). I’ve just got back from a trip there and I was astounded. I’ve never been to such a polluted city before. We actually walked around with hospital masks on to try to reduce block some of [...]
Where is Batman when you need him, anyway? I saw this video on a podcast I subscribe to (usually I don’t find it that interesting, but occasionally there’s something really good). This video was pretty amusing, but mainly rammed home my appalling practices with plastic bags.
I have canvas bags, and always re-use any plastic [...]
Someone asked me about recycling of batteries and lightbulbs, since we all seem to go through them. I don’t have an answer on the lightbulbs just yet, but long life energy saving bulbs should help (although the person who asked also mentioned the issue of mercury in CFLs). CFLs are recyclable - I just don’t [...]
Last Tuesday was a little strange. I woke up to a text message from a friend, telling me that he saw me on TV. We had been interviewed for the BBC yesterday, but weren’t expecting it to be on this quickly. Turned out there was a mini clip of us on the BBC London [...]
So far I’ve managed to save a bunch of re-usable stuff from being sent to the tip, although we have also caved and allowed our builders to send 1 load off so they had space to work (more on that later).
So here’s what I’ve managed to pass on:
hotpoint electric oven and gas hob
hotpoint fridge
1 set [...]
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