Have a look at this link about cutting out plastic packaging. A journalist called Christine Jeavans has pledged to do without plastic for a month - and she's even going to blog her progress. You can amuse yourself by reading her active blog, while I take a brief summer break from it all.
I did think about doing this for my challenge, as I reckon plastic packaging takes up a lot of space in my bin. I recycle as much as I can, but that still doesn't do much about all the meat-packaging trays and strawberry punnets. However, then I remembered it was the strawberry season and that it is miles to my nearest 'Pick Your Own' farm. Selfishly, I decided to hold back on that one, so I could enjoy my (UK grown) strawberries.
As stated in an earlier post, my hanging basket is just not cropping at a rate to encourage me to give up on the supermarket-bought strawberries. We're still waiting for the second berry to ripen! Let's face it, if ever I decided to indulge my latent fantasies regarding living on a seventies-style hippie small-holding, my family would starve! It's no good having your barefoot urchins waft about the fields in their Clothkits if there's no dinner for them to return to!
Right, well I need to go for a lie-down now: before googling 'Clothkits' for the benefit of you, dear readers, I had no idea the iconic seventies company had been revived! Imagine my joy when I discovered that my own children can now wear lovingly hand-crafted corduroy pinafores and dungarees, as my brother and I did when we were small! Also, check out the Aga in the link. [green with envy emoticon]
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