Category: Simple Life
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Adur, Evening
Adur, Evening, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth. You know, I could just get used to living here…
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Foragers’ Harvest
We've been foraging for fruit in the trees that grow adjacent to the flat in Lewisham: Elderberries for jam…
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To Commute or Not To Commute
We're in the middle of trying to figure out where to live next. It's dawning on us that we're facing a choice between our ideal lifestyle and convenience, between the rural idyll and being 10 minutes from the office.That discussion makes this piece in Business Week rather sobering: people spending three hours of their day…
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Tags of Christmas Past
We had something of an eco-friendly Christmas this year. While we were clearing out Mum's house back in 2008, we found enough unused Christmas cards to last for year and enough paper and tags to last, well, two years, as it turned out. And some of the designs were decades old. I liked the designs…
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On Objects and Memories
An important lesson to learn when you're still dealing with the posessions from your late parents' house:The hardest part of decluttering is remembering that the objects are simply representations of the memories, not the memories themselves Sometimes it's hard to make that separation.
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Blackheath Farmers Market
This morning, I took myself off to Blackheath, to give some more of Mum's old possessions to the Cancer Research charity shop there. It's a slightly snobby things to do. I know, when the Lewisham one is slightly closer, but I can't help feeling that the sort of things I'm donating will be more appreciated…
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Freecycle Splits
The UK arm of Freecycle, an initiative that allows people to give away things they no longer need thus avoiding landfill, is in the process of splitting from the US founders. Freecycle was a life-saver for us as we cleared out my parents' house after Mum died last year. Big items, like the three-piece suite, couldn't…
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