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How to Get Less Busy
We’re all busy. We all pack our days and our lives with things to do, places to be, tasks to tick off, people to meet, and then lament the lack of time for all the other things we want to do, the things we didn’t get round to. We curse ourselves for not having got half […]
Do you know what’s in your food? (And can you trust your supermarket?)
If we all knew what went in our food and connected with where it came from, if we all shopped locally and supported independent shops rather than the big supermarkets and if we all cooked a little more from scratch, rather than buying products in packets containing dubious ingredients, then in my mind, the world […]
I’m moving! (Although hopefully I’m not going anywhere…)
I’ve been blogging for almost a year now, and it’s something I’ve come to love. There’s things I’d love to do and share, and the wordpress.com site I currently use doesn’t offer me the kind of flexibility that I’d like. So I’ve decided to move to wordpress.org. I’ve spent the morning doing my research, watching […]
What I Learned from Quitting Sugar
At the end of last year, I decided to try quitting sugar. For a while I’d been noticing articles popping up in the media about the negative health impacts of sugar. I looked into it a little more: I read David Gillespie’s book Sweet Poison and also I Quit Sugar by Sarah Wilson. I had […]
The gift of giving (and what it has to do with minimalism and living simply)
Meet Grace. She’s 15 years old and lives in Uganda. She’s attending secondary school, thanks to a great little charity from the UK called ACE. ACE stands for Aid Conservation through Education. They are committed to supporting rural primary education in rural Uganda in communities bordering the national parks, believing education is the key to […]
So…You Want To Be a Minimalist?
Decluttering. Minimalism. They seem to be the new buzz words right now. There’s definitely a shift towards people being more interested in owning less stuff. At the Less is More Festival last week, the Decluttering workshop was full to capacity and there was standing room only. Even with the doors closed, a “workshop full” sign […]
My minimalist living space (I’d like to show you around…)
I often refer to the “tiny apartment” that I live in, and I’ve been thinking for a while that it would be nice to take some pictures and, well, invite you round for a (virtual) look. But then I didn’t, because the flat was never quite tidy enough. Despite my constant quest to have less […]
Oven-Roasted Chickpea Recipe – a plastic free alternative to potato chips?
When we gave up buying food that came packaged in plastic, one of the hardest things for my boyfriend to give up was potato chips. He’d wander down the crisps aisle forlornly, rustling each packet and declaring I’m pretty sure this one is plastic-free! It feels like paper! See? Sadly though, potato chips do not […]
