365 days to be greener

Found this website – Used Nappies – jolly handy if you need washable nappies and don’t want to spend a fortune, or even better, have washable nappies that are too small and want to sell them!
E-Bay won’t allow them on the site any more because they count as used underwear or something. The mind boggles. Or at least [...]

My daughter managed to insert a piece of green bean up her nose today.I watched her do it and then in slow motion, as I reached across (to do what? Grow stretchy fingers and flick it out? Do a mind meld and show her what would happen to a lodged bean with images from my [...]

Obviously my thing is breastfeeding otherwise I wouldn’t be trying to make a living selling clothes that enable you to do it more discretely and comfortably.
However, for those occasions when you need to bottle feed, whether you are expressing or making up formula, its best to avoid plastics – and especially to avoid heating said plastic bottles [...]

My daughter won’t sleep.
She’s two in March and a few months ago she would sleep for an hour an half in the afternoons, go in her cot at 7pm, be asleep – quietly – by 7.03pm and wake up again after a long and blissful trip to sleepy land at about 5.30 / 6am. I [...]

Just like Mama Cocoon.
I run a business selling breastfeeding clothes, and although we are only 20 days in to trying to give up plastics I have been firmly in denial about how to effect this change across my whole life.
My clothes are shipped from Singapore and Hong Kong. Some are organic cotton, bamboo cotton or modal (Made from the cellulose [...]

Jan 1st 2010
So day 1…where to start on our quest to reduce our plastics and commit to nothing new made-of-plastic crossing our threshold…?
Well, its a Bank Holiday and we have friends coming over. Both of my children are still in their pyjamas and I haven’t had my cereal yet. I haven’t got a hangover (boo), due to [...]