The Selkirk on 60 Selkirk Road, SW17 0ES, has kindly let use use one of their upstairs room for our next Sunday Swap, so put Sunday the 1st of March, 1-4pm in your diary now! The swaps are a great opportunity to arrive with something you don’t want, and leave with something you do. The […]

I have been feeling very sorry for them. Everytime I go out in the morning to let them out and fill up their food, the ice on their water bowl has thickened. As they rush out to peck at the unforgiving stone hard ground I worry about them. To make things more lively for them […]

Has anyone noticed what a remarkable autumn we have experienced in London this year? It compensates for the slightly disappointing summer tenfold; we have had wonderful glowing mornings filled with scents, colour and sounds. Yes, there have been more than a couple of rainy days. But they have rarely lasted more than a day, and […]

Our heating doesn’t work. Feels like the 1950s. Great for saving on energy bills, and for bowls of warm porridge in the morning, but look forward to a smidgeon more heat. Off on Thursday to the Transition City Conference in Nottingham which is being held specially for communities working to set up Transition Initiatives in […]

In the last few days, clocks turned back an hour. Darker days on their way. Will have to wait ’til St Lucy’s day in December for the turning of the solar year, the winter equinox and a little more light. Have spent the weekend gathering jumbo crop of apples from my father’s garden. They are […]

This Tooting resident seems to be surviving the credit crunch without too much bother. What can you see from your Tooting window?

History may well regard our lives as being lived in the “Fossil Fuel Age”, filed away for posterity or museum visits just like the Bronze or Iron Ages. Rob Hopkins suggests in his Transition Handbook it might be called “The Petroleum Interval”, a relatively short “blip” in history when large quantities of oil were extracted […]