The benefits of being last minute

from vicarage cliff, originally uploaded by mattfreer.
We are just back from a week spent on a barge near the Cornwall/Devon border… We’d been planning to camp but having watched the weather forecast  we decided it wouldn’t be wise, especially with a 4 month old. Thanks to ResponsibleTravel.com we came across Blagdon Water… with the [...]

firefox 3

Coming soon: Download Day… Firefox’s attempt to set a world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours to mark the launch of Firefox 3: “With more than 15,000 improvements, increased security, blinding speed and cool new features that, apparently, will change the way we use the Web.”

Hanging out [with] the washing

Hanging out [with] the washing, originally uploaded by mattfreer.

Friends of the Earth

Congratulations to Andy Atkins who has been appointed as the new Executive Director at Friends of the Earth and will replace Tony Juniper later in the year - more.
Andy, currently Advocacy Director at Tearfund, was my boss when I worked at Tearfund… well done Andy!

Baby Ayla has arrived!

Ayla Iris Mapalo Freer arrived at 11.24am on Monday 10th March. Mum did brilliantly through 36 hours of hard work. We are delighted!
Ayla means ‘Oak’ in Hebrew and she is named after Iris, my Grandma who passed away 2 weeks before Ayla arrived, and also Mapalo the adopted name for one of the communities we [...]

Wise Traveller

As you may have seen from our recent Christmas update we’ve recently been using the Happiness book from the new Wise Traveller series of ‘meditations for life’s journey’. This series of small books are produced by Scripture Union and in their own words, “bring original reflections together with spiritual writings from across history to [...]

Can’t see the wood for the trees

Welcome to my new blog - I will start blogging here soon… just at the moment I ‘can’t see the wood for the trees’… once I’ve finished setting things up and got settled I’ll start… in the meantime please subscribe to my blog by email or news reader… and below are some old posts from [...]