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  • The Uncertain Train Journey

    The Uncertain Train Journey

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    Reading Time: 1 minuteFor years I automatically took the car for everything I did, or almost. Over the last seven or eight years that habit has changed as I grew used to walking locally, and catching the train to activities. This shift in habits is due to two things. The first is that I met…

  • Shopping With an E-Scooter

    Shopping With an E-Scooter

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesOver the years I have enjoyed driving to the shops with a petrol driven scooter for daily shops. I liked that it was small, light and convenient. I only got rid of it, after sixteen years of use because of the cost for a service. Usually it was about 500 but I…

  • CoffeeB Compost

    CoffeeB Compost

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor several weeks I have been using CoffeeB capsules to prepare coffee in an environmentally more friendly manner. In the process I used an old ice cream box made from cardboard to store the punctured balls of seaweed coffee. It doesn’t smell at all, so you can keep it in your kitchen…

  • The Curse of the Summer Music Festival

    The Curse of the Summer Music Festival

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the good old days noisy music festivals made sense, because technology was not what it is today. There was no choice but to build huge speaker stacks with huge amounts of power, to deafen an entire crowd of festival goers. It was also a different age, where attitudes to noise pollution…

  • CoffeeB – No Plastic, No Aluminium

    CoffeeB – No Plastic, No Aluminium

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesI have played with Dolce Gusto machines and Nespresso machines and both of them have the same flaw. They’re quick and convenient when you’re preparing coffee but less convenient when you need to get rid of the capsules. With Nespresso getting rid of the aluminium capsules is easy, once you have a…

  • Fourty Five Days with the Cloudneo

    Fourty Five Days with the Cloudneo

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesIntro On Cloudneo are shoes that you rent, rather than own. They are designed for running but you can also use them for walking. They are designed for dry, warm weather, rather than wet. They are designed to last from three months to six months depending on how quickly you wear them…

  • Rural Solar Panels

    Rural Solar Panels

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSunak and Solar Detached from reality’: anger as Rishi Sunak plans to restrict solar panels. Rishi Sunak plans to restrict the installation of solar panels on swathes of English farmland, which climate campaigners say will raise bills and put the UK’s energy security at risk. Solar Powered Shade Solar panels, if placed…

  • The Extended Bike Ride

    The Extended Bike Ride

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesMy usual loop is around 30 kilometres but for the last two bike rides I have extended them, to reach 50-60 kilometres respectively.  I cover this distance in about two, to two and a half, hours. Cycling is good at the moment because plenty of people are on holidays so the roads…

  • Half a Million Steps in July

    Half a Million Steps in July

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIn July this year I took half a million steps as I was banned from driving. I’m using that phrase for comedic effect. As I had one arm in a sling driving was out of the question for a few weeks and then it was out of the question because my tendons…