I decided to be a while back and I've written about it, but here's a bit more...
I was happy to recycle my old mobile phones, but then found that I could actually sell them for recycling too and thought that even better! As I wasn’t expecting the money, but got it for doing something environmentally friendly, I now want to spend the money on something equally environmentally friendly. Read more

I stumbled upon the website for The Ancient Tree Hunt group because of my post on the Goat Horn Tree and I'm glad I found it. Read more

How would you like to work where you felt like an equal instead of a subordinate?
The clinic where I work isn’t your average one. It’s not a situation where there’s a boss and the rest of us are employees, no, it’s more of a co-op situation. We all work as equals, and make decisions about the business as a whole together. Read more

Being 90 years old shouldn't stop you trying something new, even if you're a tree!
In 1908 E.H. Wilson, a collector of plants, brought a specimen of a rare Goat Horn Tree back to Ireland from mainland China. Over one hundred years later, there is a living descendent of the specimen in the Rowallane Gardens in Saintfield, Northern Ireland. That little tree has been living there for the past 90 years, and this year, for the very first time ever, it decided to bloom. Read more

I'm sure you've got some...
Everyone has pet peeves. Things that for one reason or another, irritate us. I’m not immune to this, and as irrational and silly as it is… I disliked those mass produced motivational posters. You know the ones, block mounted with a big black frame, a picture of a landscape or something similar, and a ‘motivational’ phrase underneath. Read more

Or at least naming one after her!
My wife’s birthday is in September, and as I was searching the web for something a bit different, I had the idea of buying her a unusual gift, something unexpected, I happened across just the sort of thing I was after. Read more

I'm re-reading a childhood favourite at the moment. Read more

I don't mind sprinkles on a cupcake, it's part and parcel of the cupcake theme, but one fellow in New York thought they weren't manly enough. Read more

According to the BBC News site, financial advisors are warning people about packaged bank accounts.
I was reading through the site today and found this article warning everyone about those packaged bank accounts. I have to say I couldn’t agree more! It’s a wonder to me what the banks will try to push onto their customers and expect them to willingly take up these rather awful deals! Read more

I wanted to post in respect to the Korman family who danced at Auschwitz, because I they did a good thing.
Does it seem to you that there are always people waiting for any given event, any news story, just waiting for it to break so that they can sit there and judge and scorn? So that they can tisk and tut and say that other people are insensitive? It seems that way to me, sometimes, and it’s not something I like. Read more