Category: Cost of Living

  • More Oil and Gas, It’s like throwing Petrol on a fire and Hoping it will go out.

    More Oil and Gas, It’s like throwing Petrol on a fire and Hoping it will go out.

    The latest Tory Green policies, which include a go-ahead for fracking, more North Sea oil and gas exploration, a general thumbs up to more fossil fuels being burnt in the UK. With a whole raft of new Oil and Gas fired power stations being built to bridge the gap whist new Nuclear Power stations are…

  • Keeping Chickens at Home – Cut Waste and Get Free Eggs

    Keeping Chickens at Home – Cut Waste and Get Free Eggs

    If you want to reduce your household waste, and save yourself some money on eggs (with 6 free range eggs now running at £2.50) then take a look at keeping chickens at home in your garden. You don’t need a lot of space to keep a few chickens at home, and you don’t need too…

  • “The British Miracle Meat”, A Most Thought Provoking Hoax

    “The British Miracle Meat”, A Most Thought Provoking Hoax

    I watched Gregg Wallace touring the “Good Harvest” human meat factory with a certain unease, throw away comments from the owners of GooD Harvest like “Now thanks to Brexit we can do this..” etc made it feel even more real. And then as the realisation they were not growing this “Miracle Meat” from cells but…

  • Making the Most of Your Smart Meter

    Making the Most of Your Smart Meter

    Most People get their Smart Meter installed and then apart from scaring themselves every time they look at the screen they very much forget about it. But with certain Smart Meters it is possible to get hold of a lot more data via wifi and a app called Geo Home Geo Home attached to your…