There has been a quiet revolution going on in the recent decade and I am delighted to have joined it with my recent purchase of an electric bike. I grew up on a farm at Loweswater just at the end of the last period when cycling was the way to get around. My older sister cycled […]
LED technology has transformed lighting’s energy efficiency, supporting the need to reduce our carbon footprint and electricity consumption. Poor lighting though has some major negatives: The cool white colour temperatures of many of the cheaper LED lights, mimicking daylight throughout the night, is highly harmful to wildlife. It stops animals, like songbirds sleeping properly overnight, […]
For those of you who were worried about my hedgehog, the good news is that he’s still here. I’ve seen him again since I last wrote. It’s just that he comes out later and I usually I don’t go out that late. In the garden I also have three yellow rattle plants, which I’m really […]
ShyBairn Theatre presents Burnout Tue 30 & Wed 31 May | 7.30pm Theatre By The Lake Keswick Tickets: https://www.theatrebythelake.com/event/burnout “Like the planet I’m trying to save, I am screaming – and you want me to speak of hope?” Amara meets Bridgette at a protest, one of those, ‘hippy, green, save-the-planet’ things. She’s just popped out to […]
There’s been radio silence from me for 2 months. Humble apologies for that. It’s an odd irony that, when you’re very busy doing interesting things, there is no time to write, and when you have plenty of time to write, you have nothing to write about. So here is a brief summary of the last […]
Here’s a quick look at recent inquiries relating to senior politicians’ behaviour and whether we can expect them to act with integrity. I found a few descriptions of what constitutes integrity: ‘Holding yourself accountable and owning up to your shortcomings.’ ‘The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.’ ‘Selflessness; putting the needs of […]
This week we saw the publication of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Synthesis Report which paints a grim picture of the future if action to tackle the climate emergency isn’t taken immediately. There is only a small window of opportunity that governments still have to give us a liveable, sustainable future and limit the […]
March 8th, this week, was International Women’s Day; the Spring budget is due on 15th March. What a wonderful opportunity for the Government to sort out the mess that childcare has become under almost 13 years of Tories in power. Thank goodness they seem to be rowing back from relaxing maximum child/carer ratios, which could […]
An eventful time, kind of good news, bad news week. Cumbria has “won” some funding in the lottery-like bidding system for installing electric vehicle charge points, which will be administered by Cumberland because of the delay involved in identifying suitable locations. We’re hopeful Cockermouth might get some, because it is currently a desert on that […]
Its been a while but really nothing has been happening and I’ve been enjoying the rest, sewing and dog walking, seeing friends and the odd Zoom meeting. I’m keeping up-to-date with sustainable transport proposals in Cumbria, and the case against the coalmine and trying to initiate a support group for people who want to install […]
