At the beginning of 2018 I realized that my textile skills could be put to good use making reusable cloth alternatives to single use items like cling film, tissues, produce bags and cotton wool, and started moving my business to cover more of this area. Helping people reduce their waste and significantly reduce reliance on…Read more »

So I’m actually doing it. I’m opening a zero waste shop in Newcastle. Actually, I have the beginnings of it already online (check out my Facebook group here) and it’s just a case now of letting it develop until it meets everyone’s needs. And a lot of hard graft. And pouring over wholesale catalogs trying…Read more »

When I was still in the employ of a certain telecoms company, spending my days calming angry customers, doing Jedi mind tricks to convince them not to leave, and deeply, utterly, achingly missing my tiny 10 month old baby girl, who spent her days in a nursery and not with me, I started plotting a…Read more »

January is almost gone, with it’s abundance of to-do lists, aspirations, plans for the months to come. I made a list as long as my arm of wishful hopes for this new year, though I’m struggling to find the energy to put my plans into action. Looking at my work space – tidying it being…Read more »

The plastic problem. No one can be truly oblivious to the problem of plastic  in our world anymore. When sea creatures are washing up on our shorelines with a half a tonne of plastic in their bellies we can’t walk away from a catastrophe that is of our own making. Stepping away from plastic straws…Read more »

So I’ve been blogging as The Phoenix Green for a while now. Not as often as I’d like, but still, tapping away letting my thoughts flow once in a while feels like a positive thing to do. Not feeling particularly like a pro, or in any way experienced, but plodding along. Slowly but surely. I’ve…Read more »