About
I’m a thirty something woman (Mrs Green) living with my gorgeous husband (Mr Green), our daughter (Little Miss Green) and cat (Pussus Cattus Green) in semi-rural UK.
If you are committed to a greener way of life, or are just starting out on the path of eco awareness, then you might find something within these blog pages to interest you.
I have a passion to share information I have gathered over the years in the hope that
someone else can benefit from it too. Self empowerment are our keywords here at chez Green. We like to research things, learn from others and share the love and knowledge. Much as the internet can be a phenomenal time waster, it has also opened up the opportunity to many people to seek knowledge and share information.
Environmental issues, eco conscious, sustainable living, gardening, self sufficiency, real food, frugality, reducing energy usage, reusing, reducing, recycling, recipes, repairs, fair trade, organic, making your own cleaning products and natural healing methods are all areas that we, as a family are passionate 
about. We’ll share some of our experiences and findings within this blog.
Over the past few years, our interest in supporting the planet and her inhabitants has grown. I think having a child enhances your awareness of the fragility of life and the legacy we leave behind.
As a family, we are trying to live as lightly on the earth as possible each day and make conscious choices wherever we can.
Little Miss Green is home educated. She is very creative and never uses any object fo
r its intended use for long. Storage boxes rapidly become elaborate dens, houses or boats. Pencils are rabbit food (and she is the rabbit), curtains are the sea, her bed is for swinging from and her mattress is a trampoline.
She loves reading, writing stories and can usually be found creating a work of art somewhere. (Often on her bedroom wall). She says that one day she is going to write a book and sell it for a million pounds on the days that she is not being a vet, running her shop or being a farmer’s wife with five children. Apparently her farm is going to be large enough so that we can move in and look after her children while she looks after the animals.
She is a natural Buddhist (I can’t garden with her because every creature has to be saved, made a bed for and reunited with its mother, so it takes about 3 hours to dig a square inch) and she has an attachment to none of her possessions. When she is done with them, she gives them away - we can all learn alot about trust from that.
Mr. Green drives me insane with his love of stuff. I’m trying to minimalise; while he maximises everything. When I create a space on a shelf or in a cupboard he asks me what I am going to fill it with. He has more clothes and shoes than me and enough wood stashed away to build an ark.
He has an exceptionally annoying habit of his ‘one day’ stuff actually coming in useful
which makes it even more hard for me to convince him to release things. He has built a conservatory, put in a shower, and installed radiators from his ‘it might come in useful one day’ hoard. I have nightmares that he will drop dead and leave me with all this stuff, but I have threatened to put a large skip on his grave and set fire to everything on top of him.
On the flip side, he is incredibly handsome, has a voice to die for, is a good listener, is understanding, protects his family fiercely, is creative, passionate, dynamic, practical and erm, well, let’s just say he comes up to scratch in all the important areas of a relationship 
I like to write and make spaces to enjoy until Mr Green finds something to fill them with. I love creating meals from nothing, meditating, staring into the flames of the fire, listening to music, thinking, dreaming, watching the sunset or sunrise, watching the stars and moon and I love turning up the music until the windows rattle to dance around the house. I enjoy sweeping the floors and a nice clean bathroom - we all have our quirks………….
I’m an INFP, a type 4 with a 5 wing on the eneagram, a 30/3 life path number and as you’ve probably guess I like trivia quizzes, personality profiling, boxes and compartments.Yet at the same time I rebel against being tied down to anything or labelled, I constantly change my mood, I’m always in six minds about
everything and having to make a decision about anything terrifies me. Which probably accounts for the fact that I’m a double Gemini. Oh, and even when I’m wrong I’m right, apparently……
When asked to describe me in three words, Mr.Green offered: eccentric, enigmatic and completely unreliable. Ho hum.
We still have heaps to learn, lots to change, mistakes to learn from, stacks of ideas to ground into reality, things to share and lots of love to spread around the planet.
I hope you enjoy sharing in some of our adventures and feel inspired to make positive changes in your own life!
Please do comment if you feel moved to do so, or contact us and say Hi - we’d love to hear from you.
Mrs Green
xxx
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Great Blog! Although your ‘contact’ page doesnt seem to be working?? thanks for adding my pads on your blog…any chance of getting a link on there too?
Keep up the good work!
love Rachael x
Yes, I also noticed your contact page is not working correctly due to the wp-cache plugin. My advice is to deactivate the plugin, as it’s really not that useful unless you are getting a ton of traffic from Digg.com
Thank you both. I admit your comments left me a little confused, as I have been getting contact Me forms through ok.
I sent myself one and that was ok too.
Then I figured I’m a Firefox girl, so I tried it in IE and therein lies the problem.
It seems this is ok in Firefox, but not in IE.
Thanks for your suggestion, Timothy - Mr.Green is looking into it now………….
Hello,
I arrived at your blog from Darren’s 31DBBB. This is a fascinating blog with some intriguing and helpful content. I’m sure I’ll be back. One note though, it doesn’t seem to work very well with the Safari browser. On Safari, the categories in the sidebar don’t show up. I tried Firefox and it works well with this browser.
Keep up the fab work!
Cheers,
Keith
Hello Keith, Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment; and thank you so much for telling us about Safari. It is a browser I do not use. I try the site in IE, Chrome and Firefox - but have not used Safari.
we’ll look into it and see what we can do.
Your blog is excellent too - and I love the title; velvet escape. I hope you’re enjoying the pro blogger challenge!
Hi Mrs. Green,
You’re welcome. Safari is used by all Mac and iPod/iPhone users - it’s Apple’s built-in browser - and there are many Mac users out there (I think it’s 8% of all computer users) and even more iPod/iPhone users. I’m a big fan of the Mac… and everything Apple for that matter!
I’m definitely enjoying the ProBlogger challenge. I’ve really learned a lot, thanks to Darren.
Cheers,
Keith
ps/glad you liked my blog.
Dear Little Green Blog,
Just came acorss your site today and found it very informative. I am interested how Mr Green’s Raw food diet went.
Lovely intro about you guyz - we keep finding more & more fascinating tidbits about you!!
…& where is Little Miss Green sleeping??!
@EcoChampion: Hi EcoChampion, mr green is on the third week of his diet and is struggling this week. I’ll be blogging about it again next week to keep you all updated on his progress. Do you eat a high raw diet, or is this something you would consider?
@Layla: Hi Layla, lovely to see you here. We’re full of surprises! You’ll be pleased to hear that LMG now sleeps soundly in bed (most nights!)
[...] keeping up with Mr and Mrs Jones for material possessions, we could encourage them to keep up with Mr and Mrs Green [...]
[...] keeping up with Mr and Mrs Jones for material possessions, we could encourage them to keep up with Mr and Mrs Green [...]
Hello to all,
This is to introduce my new children’s book:
Mrs. Nosy - A Composting Story
log in to my blog: artistsites.org/mrsnosy/
and leave your comments.
Thank you for sharing your green ideas for a healthy earth!
@Lily goldman: Hi lily, good luck with your book; it’s great to see new kids books with meaning and purpose
@Mrs Green: thank you