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Archive for August, 2008

Sometimes the best things in life are free

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

This is nice, eh?

Fair wind wine

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Ahoy Mi Hearties!! I see a great idea on the horizon! Sail ships, emitting one-seventh of the carbon emissions of traditional container ships, carrying goods and arriving there or thereabouts on time (depending on mother nature herself of course).
I think we’ll be getting in touch with the company behind ‘Fair Wind Wine’ or similar companies [...]

SFHP heads back to The Sock Drawer

Friday, August 8th, 2008

There’s been many benefits of SFHP relocating to an idyllic Swedish Island for a few weeks, and one has the been the farmhouse in which we’ve enjoyed many a long discussion over green tea and umpteen cakes. But with the farmhouse, came the farm next door, and with the farm next door came the frolicking [...]

The Polyphonic Spree and Socks in Nirvana

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

The Polyphonic Spree and Socks bring you Lithium, by Nirvana
I guess it’s what you do on when there’s 43 of you on a tour bus…

Easy on the plastic now

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Life without plastic pretty is hard to imagine now. Well, thanks to BBC journalist Christine Jeavans it’s about to get a little easier as she’s given up buying or accepting anything which contains or is packaged in plastic for the month of august.
It’s an interesting and important idea, and one that’s close to our hearts. [...]