I do have the take that it’s her room and she can basically do as she wishes in there, but when I can no longer get to the airing cupboard, the cat’s been unusually quiet and absent for a few days and her wardrobe contains a mixture of clean clothes, dirty pants and mouldy cups sporting green fury jumpers, I feel it is my duty to intervene.
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Things have hotted up in recent years as many people feel that a vegetarian or vegan diet is part of the answer to feeding future populations and arresting global warming.
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This is something Mr Green and I talk about a lot and we have not really found a solution yet.
You may well buy organic food, have given up long haul flights, have a green electricity provider and live as lightly on the earth as possible. But where you invest your money can mean you are contributing to some of the things you feel strongly about and are trying to avoid in your daily purchases and lifestyle.
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Little Miss Green loves anything to do with art. Unfortunately, my ‘art’ extends to stick figures on a good day. Yet art is something I’ve always had a secret wish I was good at. During my childhood, I had it instilled in me that academic subjects were the only ones worth bothering with, so my enthusiasm was quashed and I never had chance to explore.
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While our children want the latest gadgets and have to be shown how to care for the things they have; children in South Africa are struggling to get educated without basic supplies such as paper and pencils.
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A week ago the soil was still too wet to handle and today it was baked and cracked. I have nothing in the beds except weeds and some potatoes that have grown themselves after missing last year’s harvest.
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