Rosie's Ecoblog

I spend way too much time at my computer screen.  I'm probably not alone in that thought. When I go away for a week I am almost scared...

Trying to avoid single-use plastic for a year is the hardest challenge I have tried. The reason behind this strange decision that we took wa...

The summer term always seem to whizz by at top speed.  This has been a term of being out and about in every bit of my spare time at communit...

Mr Pitt's Parmesan Bites with Chilli and Rosemary So, after feeling the glow of success last Saturday, we went out on a mission to ...

Can it be done? What will life be like without single-use plastic? I thought I was going to lose junior daughter and Mr Pitt on day one. N...

If you've read my blog before, you might know that I love a New Year's Challenge.  In 2013 I did a year of Swishing which changed my...

Junior daughter went to school today wearing her lovely jacket she swapped on Swishing.co.uk .    That got me in the mood to write about my ...

Last September I took part in Zero Waste Week.  The theme last year was Food Waste and it was particularly timely for me as I was about to s...

One morning last week I looked out of my bedroom window to see a wood pigeon and a magpie squabbling over possession of the cup of fat and b...

It's almost a year now since I gave up my gym membership. It was a difficult decision. Several years ago I joined a private gym on the...

It is Christmas Shopping day for me today.  I have concocted a plan to make the whole process easy and fun.  And it's this... My siste...

Yikes, it's been cold today.   But I still managed to get my laundry dry for free , thanks to the wonderful power of wind . From 101 ...

Another 15,523g of old bills, questionnaires from data surveys and some old notebooks gets added to last week's total. Already well ov...

On to the next step... Week 2.  Go through the filing cabinet and bookshelves and extract all those files you no longer need but still hav...

My office is a sea of paperwork going back 20 years. I'm aiming to reduce the amount of paper I'm storing by around 75% before th...

Do you get through an endless supply of batteries?  We certainly seem to in our house.  About a year ago, I was just about to pi...

Well, I'm now in month eight of my swishing year. What have I achieved?  What have I spent and how does it feel?  I thought I'd as...