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What is the most eco-friendly way to launder clothes?

Yeah yeah, I know, quite boring, but if you want to be a good eco-freak you need to think about the environmental impact of all your activities, especially daily ones. Something to remember is that everything we do has an environmental impact ... (more)

Share Your Seeds!

Share Your Seeds The BBC's Gardeners Question Time raised a dual issue common to virtually all small-scale gardeners: how to economise on seed-buying, and what to do with your leftover seeds. Some gardening websites feature 'seed swap ... (more)

Think Environmental: The Green Options

Think Environmental: The Green Options Install a wind turbine? Do more recycling? Walk everywhere? Fly less? What's best? It'd be hard to come up with a complete and 100% accurate ranking of the value of each possible action. ... (more)

Other Model Railway Sites

iRail - An index of all railway and model railway related websites in the UK and Ireland. (more)

Mumsnet

Mumsnet Mumsnet is an extremely popular website for UK mums and carers. There are some dads on there, but it's mostly mums. You need an extremely thick skin to avoid getting upset, so be warned! You may be interested to know that there ... (more)

What do Good Energy Customers Care About?

Good Energy has published results of a questionnaire, in which customers were asked what sort of environmental decisions they make. Here are the broad conclusions: Most of you stated that you choose Good Energy is because it is the 'greenest ... (more)

The Swindells Name

The Swindells Name We've been doing a bit of research into our family trees, and are sharing our findings. Here is what we have discovered about the Swindells family name. (more)

Driving To The Gym

Driving To The Gym This section is dedicated to oxymorons such as Driving to the Gym. Do you ever wonder why people drive to the gym? I do. I know there are some folks who aren't very mobile and need finely tuned exercise that a gym or ... (more)

Oil Thefts Almost Unchanged Between 2009 And 2010

Heating oil has been making the headlines a lot in the last seven months, as the price soared and more people reported thefts from their tanks. There is no doubt that the price increases are newsworthy, but what about the thefts? Well, it ... (more)

Model Railways

00-Guage Model Railways I had a dabble in N-gauge model railways as a child, and found the scale just too fiddly. Almost 20 years later, I'm a Dad and have resurrected the hobby in OO/HO guage (00-gauge to be precise). This is largely because ... (more)

Free Solar PV: What's the Cost?

I had the great pleasure in receiving an unsolicited call from a UK company marketing their 'free solar panel' deal. Since I'm interested in solar PV I let the salesperson deliver their pitch, and then asked a number of questions. What follows ... (more)

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