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I’m a bit of a slack blogger aren’t I? Sorry. Sometimes I just lose the drive and impetus, or get totally distracted by other things.

An update and round up?

It’s snowing again, very lightly and not even trying to settle but it means it’s very cold – but the boiler is staying fixed so we have heating!

We’ve noticed a dramatic reduction in the volume of waste we put in our bin since getting sorted to recycle the hard plastic at our local tesco. It takes a few minutes as part of a shopping trip, easy, and because each item is scanned and sorted I suspect that it all gets recycled properly rather than being shipped off to China or somewhere else that’s classed as “away”.

We’ve also started something I stumbled on over on the Twitter site – Meatfreemonday. If you’re on Twitter you can search for the hash tag #meatfreemonday. But effectively it’s a commitment to having at least one day each week where you don’t consume meat or meat products. So far we’ve had cereal and milk for breakfast and fruit for a morning snack – that’s part of an overall health drive anyway. Lunch will be out but DD and I will choose carefully. Not sure what DS will choose at school dinners but today has a good non meat selection. He might forget and go for the fish cakes though. Does fish count? Shall we exclude school dinners? Shall we call it mammalmeatfreemonday instead?

Oh and lastly for today, do you want a chance to win some luxury, hand made, organic, chocolates? Then pop over to My Zero Waste and drop them a line in the comments.

Happy Monday folks!

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