The Smallest is cutting teeth with a vengence (read two and three teeth at a time) and the normal mixture of water with a few frops of lavender oil, is doing little to cut through the acidic velcro like mess welded onto her bottom, so I thought that I would share my more complicated (haha) [...]
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Fragrant Baby Wipes Recipe
Posted in Cloth Nappies, Environment, Frugality, Kids!, Selfsufficiency, tagged baby wipes recipe, nappy rash, teething on February 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
About time too.
Posted in Environment, tagged snow, weather, winter on November 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Its all gone now, but we could really do with some more proper winter weather – maybe then we wouldn’t all be struck down with virus after virus. Looks rather lovely while it lasted, no good for finding the dog poos though! The Artic wind is still blasting so thats something at least.
Waste Weigh In
Posted in Environment, Frugality, Home Economy, Rubbish, tagged poo, recycling, Rubbish, waste, wormery on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So far the current running totals for rubbish over the last few days are:
Wednesday: 50gms – mainly milk bottle tops, jar lids and a pasta bag
Thursday: 40gms – more milk carton tops and a couple butchers bags
The biggest distinction between this week and last is that there is no dog muck going into the bin, [...]
Inadvertant Rubbish – The Post
Posted in Environment, Home Economy, Rubbish, tagged mail, plastic, post, recycling on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
….and here was me thinking that we were doing so well…. typical!
These are all from companies/organisations that we have bought from or are members of, so they will need to be contacted and either asked not to send it or to send a paper-free version if they have them. I think that that may be [...]
Waste Weighs in…
Posted in Environment, Food, Frugality, Home Economy, Rubbish on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After weighing in my non-recyclable rubbish last week (10.5kg – 8.4kg of this was dog muck ehw!) Yesterdays total weight is 100g, this comprises mainly of food wrappings and milk container tops – we have the milkman, but with a three year old and a Coeliac in the house we get through an awful lot [...]
Waste Free Week Begins
Posted in Coeliac, Environment on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the first day of Waste Free Week, I’m hoping to post things that we have done differently to usual, and make comments about whether or not I feel that the changes I make will be permanent or lasting, and whether they make a significant difference to our waste reduction.
I have already decided that [...]
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