Author Archives: jenny

I have recently been asked to put together some ideas to run an Eco day at the primary school where I work. This is something totally up my street and I am so excited about the plans we have coming together for it. What a brilliant opportunity to engage children in thinking about the environmentContinue reading “Orange Bird Feeder”

Today’s post is all about the laundry. I have deliberated about writing this up as it is something very ‘everyday’ and not perhaps most exciting of topics, although following on from my other popular posts on similar things like the Eco Unsponges and Toilet Paper I have come to realise that eco is sometimes justContinue reading “EcoEgg”

I am really enjoying the latest series of The Great British Sewing Bee now back on TV. It is one of my favourite TV programmes. The challenge of problem solving to make something useful or beautiful is just all part who I am and expressing resourcefulness and creativity. My last Sewing Bee inspired challenge fromContinue reading “Sewing Bee Beanbag”

Spring is always a time of thinking of new life and hope. The weather this year has been teasing us a little with a few days of summer sunshine this week, BBQ, paddling pool out, finding the sunscreen etc. and the next day its freezing cold, minus temperatures and in fact snowing. My poor lettucesContinue reading “Spring Wreath”

It is good to have certain points in the year that you can look back on and reflect. Easter 2020 was the start of the first COVID lockdown and I think quite honestly everyone thought it might be for a few weeks or so, no-one could have imagined that a year on, Easter 2021 weContinue reading “Happy Easter”

I have always been a little puzzled as to why today is called Good Friday? What could possibly be good about the day that we remember when Jesus died. It was a dark day, of feeling defeated, a day of suffering and pain. I have only more recently understood that it is in fact fromContinue reading “Hot Cross Buns”

Spring for me is a time to think about new new life and all the lovely bulbs that start to come up out of the ground to welcome in warmer weather and a change in seasons. The mystery of a plant that is all packed into a tiny seed and with the potential to growContinue reading “Strawberries in a bag”

Today is the big charity day for Comic Relief. You many be involved in various fundraising events today from sponsored bike rides, to socially distant cake sales to dressing up as a superhero or a Police lady like I am today in showing our appreciation for local superheroes in our community. Since 1985 it hasContinue reading “Green Red Nose Day”

Today marks a big milestone on this eco blog adventure as it is a whole year since I decided to have a go and start this blog. 65 posts later and I have so many people to thank for their encouragement to keep going with it over the last year. I find myself back whereContinue reading “A year and Mother’s Day”

As part of this two week Fairtrade awareness campaign run by the Fairtrade Foundation, I’ve been looking at some different consumer items where there is an option to buy Fairtrade and in doing so supporting the Fairtrade ethics of fair prices and working conditions for producers. It is not to say that other suppliers orContinue reading “Fairtrade Fortnight – Fairtrade Flowers”