Stitched in Silver

Party decorations are notoriously plastic heavy and short lived. Do we really need balloons and party poppers used briefly and thrown in the...

There are lots of reasons to stop using commercial shampoos. Buying one less item in a plastic bottle is just one of them.   I had re...

Every year my friends Katie and Ian and their band of "Fetchies" (followers of the running website Fetcheveryone.com ) set up a ch...

We have all been moved by the Blue Planet pictures of rafts of plastics in our oceans. We’ve watched horrified by the stomach contents of a...

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."   Nathaniel Hawthorne ,  The American No...

An old friend had a significant birthday. We have known each other since our children were very small but, as they grew, went to different s...

Gracious, where did the spring go? August already! We've not had much bikini weather in this country but with Beyonce and Abbey Clancy b...