Archive for November, 2008

Mrs Green fondles a six pack and gets some silicone implants (in her kitchen)

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Mrs Green fondles a six pack and gets some silicone implants (in her kitchen)

Here’s a little quiz for you. It’s a spot the difference competition. You know how you loved doing them in puzzle books as a child. The first picture:

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Mrs Green cooks brown stuff

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Mrs Green cooks brown stuff

I was feeling a pang of guilt on Saturday night. I had the ‘great idea’ of buying up some reduced goodies in the farm shop – a bag of organic spinach and some broccoli. In addition, I had the good fortune of spotting a huge tub of cream for 25p in the supermarket. But laziness […]

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And the winner is…….

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And the winner is…….

We ran two competitions last month. The first was to win a signed copy of Tracey Smith’s “Book of Rubbish Ideas” Oh my; this was *such* a difficult competition to choose a winner for. Not only was it one of our most popular competitions, with loads of entries, but all of the answers were fabulous.

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Weekly roundup twenty four

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Weekly roundup twenty four

Welcome to our Sunday roundup. Little Miss Green is completely recovered now, but as any parent will sympathise, Mama Green is left feeling a bit chewed up and spat out around the edges. Still, things are looking up and I’ve kind of caught up with the site this week.

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November’s Dustbin Demon

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November’s Dustbin Demon

The monthly dustbin demon is where I get to have a bit of a rant. Instead of providing solutions I can just have a bit of a yarn about something that is bothering me in my dustbin. This month, you might recognise our little demon. He showed up during our zero waste week and Mrs […]

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Monthly challenge for November

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Monthly challenge for November

Better late than never. Welcome to the November monthly challenge. There is half of this month left to get your teeth stuck into our challenge for this month.

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Zero waste Christmas crackers

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Zero waste Christmas crackers

A quick post from me today. I’m going to start doing a series on having a zero waste Christmas. I’d love to hear your thoughts about what topics you would like covered. For today, I know that John asked about crackers, so zero waste crackers it is!

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Supermarket cuts food waste!

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Supermarket cuts food waste!

Forgive me if you’ve all known this for the past decade, but this week I indulged in something I’ve never done before. I went late night shopping. For that read ‘Past 6 o’clock’

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