Get it off your chest
Jun 10 2011
They don’t seem to want the over-fifties in the job market while, at the same time, common-sense appears to have flown out of the window in the younger ones… Take climate change, all you hear is politically-motivated claptrap from people with an axe to grind about something. Where’s the motivation for ordinary people to do [...]
Jan 22 2011
Boycotting specific oil companies will not lower the cost of petrol because it simply isn’t possible to know whose fuel you are buying.
Oct 17 2009
As a West Yorkshire farmer gets fined for failing to satisfy his cow’s ‘psychological and ethological’ needs are we in danger of inventing increasingly stupid and petty rules as the World goes belly up?
Aug 26 2009
Driving around North Yorkshire recently trying to earn a few quid I couldn’t help noticing how much land is turned over to growing grass. Now, the Vale of York is a good, fertile area and we could grow a fair amount of food here except, of course, that major resellers, like supermarkets, would rather buy [...]
Apr 21 2009
Back to packing stuff in boxes and taking other stuff to the local dump. I’m going to two different ones on alternate days now in an attempt to lower my profile a bit. One of the things this exercise has revealed though is the appalling level of waste in the World – I can’t believe [...]
Apr 17 2009
End of week one of planning to close the office and I’ve disposed of a phenomenal amount of ‘junk’. Well, it’s not really junk but no-one wants it unless, of course, it’s pretty much for free. Put a laptop on Ebay for 99p plus £49.99 postage. At the end of the day it’s a laptop [...]
Apr 16 2009
It’s Thursday and I’ve just discovered how hard it is to dispose of unwanted items responsibly. I have a lot of stuff to dispose of from the office so I filled up my van and drove down to the local skip. “Do you have a permit sir?” asked the jobsworth. “Erm no, says I” “Then [...]
Sep 09 2008
Now that David Cameron has had his wind turbine installed and considering we probably would all like to save a bit on our energy bills I decided to do a little research on alternative energy, in this case wind turbines. What I found out surprised even me. Firstly, there are few sites which give accurate [...]
Sep 07 2008
There’s so much crap written about this that the average person has no chance of getting it right. For example, it’s said that cattle in the UK are responsible for 25% of this country’s methane emissions. Methane is one of the gases said to be responsible for global warming – it has several times the [...]
Mar 31 2008
If the Government would like to make a major environmental impact (positive, of course!) could I make a suggestion? Outlaw junk mail! It won’t cost them a penny; it will save millions of trees; it will significantly reduce levels of waste and it will be supported by most of the population. It doesn’t get much [...]
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