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Free Petrol in December
Cherry Tree by Steps I get free petrol this month. In fact, I expect to get free petrol every December from now on. I didn’t win the lottery, and I don’t have a company car, so how do I manage it?...
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A Christmas gift suggestion
Carved watermelon in the Maldives It’s Christmas again, and already where I live there’s been enough snow to build an army of snowmen. I like snow, but I’ve also spent a few Christmases in the...
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(British) Farmers fear EU pesticide rules
an organically grown carrot The BBC published an article on Tuesday with the title Farmers fear EU pesticide rules. Interestingly, a few hours later they changed the title to “Euro MPs back pesticide...
View ArticleIt’s not easy being green
The “Bein’ Green” song was written in 1970 and sung by Kermit the Frog in the first season of Sesame Street. Since then, it’s taken on a life of its own. Frank Sinatra did a version of it in 1971 on...
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Gardening update
spring onions Back in April, I described my gardening plans for this year. Time for an update! It’s been seven weeks since then, so I ought really to be well advanced with my plants. Unfortunately, we...
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Heatwaves, Pollution, and Money to Burn
heatwave in FranceFrance is just coming out of a heatwave at the moment. Whenever I think of a heatwave, two things come to mind. The first is the film ‘Grumpy Old Men‘, with Jack lemmon and Walther...
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Gardening Update II
rainAlthough we’ve had a heatwave recently here in France, the dominant theme for this summer has been rain. Lots of rain. And yet more pot-grown beetrootrain. With all this rain, I’ve not had to water...
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Free Petrol? Free Pizza!
At the end of 2008, I explained how changing my driving habits had effectively given me free petrol for the month of December. Time to review the figures for 2009! In 2008, my car travelled 10400 km,...
View ArticleReading your meter
Tom Harrison, of the Five Percent blog, recently invited me to write a guest-post for his new employers, over at the Energy Circle. I decided to describe what I’ve learnt about my electricity...
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