Yes yes yes - hubby and I do live lightly on the Earth so I do not feel guilt at using Amazon Prime or enjoying sexist films - the point is ‘knowing’ that they are sexist… and Hugh… absolutely - in fact my chosen Christmas film binge this year is the Bridget Jones series - I’m educating hubby who has never seen them! And Milli… I can’t see Bridget without thinking of you now after what you said previously!
A thoughtful, dense and eye-popping book is Ed Conway’s Material World. You will never look at a tomato the same way ever again. It hasn’t stopped me doing all the Right Things (that hurt my bank balance more than they help the planet), but this book also made me think hard about the limits of my consumer power and it asks some of the same questions your post asks us to consider.
Oddly - I rarely say such things of books - I think it’s a good gift for a man. It was written as if for a man somehow. (I don’t really know what I mean by this.)
Good luck with the potato wreath. At least it’s not deadly poisonous like my one this year!
I wish this too. My sisters and our brothers-in-law each wrap whatever has been a good book we’ve read during the year and we each randomly get one - a sort of Secret book Santa. Makes for great conversations about books, too!
I wish it was acceptable to give 2nd hand stuff as gifts. Obv you have to be careful.
I had 2 aunts who did this - one because she was stony broke, the other because she was very, very mean. Mean aunt once gave one of my kids a pair of 2nd hand slippers - they were only lightly worn, but we knew they were a charity shop special because a childish hand had Biro’d the words ‘left’ and ‘right’ on the soles, and aunty had either not noticed or didn’t care. I have a friend who had a cousin who gave her kids’ outgrown school uniform as Christmas presents to her (my friend’s) kids. They didn’t even go to the same school😱😂
On the plus side, it allows the kids to practise lying when saying ‘very nice, thank you so much’. 😀
My husband's grandmother once gave him (when he was a child at Christmas) a small ball she had made out of the foil that is wrapped around chewing gum.
Haha, I also don't like Elf or Love Actually.... The insistence that either one is an amazing Christmas movie strikes me as a tad desperate.
Yes yes yes - hubby and I do live lightly on the Earth so I do not feel guilt at using Amazon Prime or enjoying sexist films - the point is ‘knowing’ that they are sexist… and Hugh… absolutely - in fact my chosen Christmas film binge this year is the Bridget Jones series - I’m educating hubby who has never seen them! And Milli… I can’t see Bridget without thinking of you now after what you said previously!
Oh, Milli, you’re hilarious.
A thoughtful, dense and eye-popping book is Ed Conway’s Material World. You will never look at a tomato the same way ever again. It hasn’t stopped me doing all the Right Things (that hurt my bank balance more than they help the planet), but this book also made me think hard about the limits of my consumer power and it asks some of the same questions your post asks us to consider.
Oddly - I rarely say such things of books - I think it’s a good gift for a man. It was written as if for a man somehow. (I don’t really know what I mean by this.)
Good luck with the potato wreath. At least it’s not deadly poisonous like my one this year!
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I wish this too. My sisters and our brothers-in-law each wrap whatever has been a good book we’ve read during the year and we each randomly get one - a sort of Secret book Santa. Makes for great conversations about books, too!
I wish it was acceptable to give 2nd hand stuff as gifts. Obv you have to be careful.
I had 2 aunts who did this - one because she was stony broke, the other because she was very, very mean. Mean aunt once gave one of my kids a pair of 2nd hand slippers - they were only lightly worn, but we knew they were a charity shop special because a childish hand had Biro’d the words ‘left’ and ‘right’ on the soles, and aunty had either not noticed or didn’t care. I have a friend who had a cousin who gave her kids’ outgrown school uniform as Christmas presents to her (my friend’s) kids. They didn’t even go to the same school😱😂
On the plus side, it allows the kids to practise lying when saying ‘very nice, thank you so much’. 😀
My husband's grandmother once gave him (when he was a child at Christmas) a small ball she had made out of the foil that is wrapped around chewing gum.
Ohhhhh……that’s awful!
PS - OMG, the plastic crap in shops right now! If only it were just Boots. It’s everywhere! Even the garden centres stock plastic plants 🙃😱
OMG a potato wreath; my cup is full...😁