Wouldn’t life be so much easier, if we didn’t have to spend hours laundering our clothes each week? The time energy we spend sorting out our whites from our darks could definitely be applied to something more enjoyable, perhaps leisurely sipping a cool glass of Pimms while enjoying the summer sun? Well if it ever [...]

I received an e-mail yesterday which I thought I’d share with you. It was to bring attention to petitioning.
The e-petitioning website allows you to create your own petitions so that you can tell the Prime Minister about the issues you feel he should be addressing. Looking on the site there are 681 petitions just under [...]

I was really interested to read about affordable ecohousing for first time buyers in the west of Scotland in this week’s Sunday Herald.  I suppose it does depend on your idea of affordable, I know this is one of the few decent housing schemes my boyfriend and I could buy into, but we’re not too [...]

“I love plastic. I want to be plastic,” said Andy Warhol back in the groovy sixties when this seemingly miraculous substance began to shape and colour our everyday lives.

Back then the new plastic furniture and futuristic fashions seemed like a lot of fun but as the decades moved on increasing awareness about the toxicity of [...]

Nooo, not the political one - my birthday!
This year for my birthday I had grand plans of holding a lovely summer barbeque birthday bash but those plans were thwarted this weekend by the relentless rain we’re having at the minute. Not that it mattered though, I had a fantastic time.
Its been a while since I [...]

There was a very interesting piece on the midlands news tonight about Tesco’s milk. I have seen the local choice ads on the T.V and had to raise an eyebrow as they were claiming you can now buy locally produced milk in their supermarkets. Apparently trading standards have been called in as you can only [...]

I haven’t been able to find the link - but in the programme of Roskilde Festival they claim that there’s a whole area of green and fairtrade (due to the weather for the next couple of days I will join the mud girls global instead of green girls global) at the festival.
the area is the [...]

You may remember a little while ago a very insightful article on GGG called ‘So Many Clothes, So Little Time‘ by guest editor Francesca Abram, well I’m extremely happy to let you know that she has just become a fully fledged GGG editor.
Francesca has recently completed a degree in fashion design and is particularly interested [...]