With our oldest boy just starting school it’s brought a whole new rhythm – not just to our weekdays but to our weekends. Surprised? So are we. On the first day at school his drawer contained two birthday party invites. And that pattern has continued...

Last week I attended a global banking event in Vienna. Imagine 8,500 bankers crammed into three Earls Court-type exhibition halls with hundreds of stands plus lots of seminars, discussions and “networking” every night for four nights … not a...

It goes without saying that harvest is the most wonderful time of year for any allotment owner. The taste of those sweet raspberries straight off the bush, leaving your fingers fruit-red and tongue truly tangoed; the nutty flavour of quickly boiled...

Apparently holidaying families in the UK responded to the credit crunch by camping in Britain rather than flying abroad. Just to be different, we like to camp – abroad! For the past few years we’ve enjoyed driving and camping in Europe...

Generous isn’t just a green action thing which means it’s not as straightforward as it might be. Especially when you’re trying to involve a young family in the journey. I’ll give you an example: our oldest boy goes to a pre-school that is within...

I recently had the chance to listen to Jonathon Porritt at an event my company organised. We build big IT centres where large corporations can store all their data and we recently opened a new one. This was effectively our first major ‘green’ centre...

Would you call yourself a bibliophile, a philobiblist… or perhaps just a common garden ‘bookworm’? Welcome to the club! And now you’re initiated, how about this for starters. Did you know that Cinderella’s slippers were originally made out of...