middle of autumn : have you turned the heating on yet?

I think I’m going to start wearing gloves tomorrow. My hands were frozen this morning as I trekked to work.
Last week had seen the weather turned quite warm for this time of the year. But winter is fast approaching, and at home we have been resisting turning on the heat in spite of some cold [...]

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BOGOF deals harming the environment?

Buy-one-get-one-free offers by supermarkets are recently highlighted by the government as one of the main causes of the billions worth of food thrown away each year in the UK.
And there have been talks of banning this kind of offers.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that BOGOFs are meant to get rid of the [...]

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luffa for washing up dishes?

[image swiped from Michael's Luffas]
loofah, luffa, lufah. It goes by a lot of spellings, which I think are all correct. If you haven’t seen one look here.
Normally you use it to scrub yourself in the shower. I’ve ran across one in a health shop named Michael’s Original Luffa Washing-Up Scouring pad. And I thought, what [...]

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print to PDF

We’ve been doing this for years, yet only though about blogging about it just now.
We’ve never really liked paper. But we like keeping records. of everything. bills. mortgage statements. bank statements. insurance certificates. Face it, there is a lot of records you need to keep these days with the thousand-and-one insurances we have to cover [...]

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One mug a day

Call me lazy. I used to wash my glasses and mugs after each use. And I find myself in front of the sink for a good part of the day. I soon got tired of that.
Call me icky. I now use the same mug for my coffee and tea and water and juice. Just a [...]

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