As a coffee snob…

 As a coffee snob I was pleased to read the latest advice from Lifehacker: Brew the Best Possible Coffee Without Breaking the Bank. What they don’t mention is the importance of buying fairtrade beans… and if like me you care about what chemicals go in with your coffee, making sure they are organic. Remember, despite [...]

Making sense

If you’re into poetry you might like to pop over to makingsense.me.uk – a new website set up by my colleague at CMS Martin Thomas to share his creative poetry…

Ethical sales

We try to buy our clothes from fairtrade / organic / ethical companies… but it is still hard to avoid the lure of the high street and the price tag usually causes the majority to head to the high street.
But there are other ways, I’ve found getting creative about shopping helps, as does heading to [...]

How to get your own website

I’ve been thinking of writing a post about how to set-up your own WordPress.com website for a while (that is the software and hosting we use for this site) – it is so easy, free and whilst being simple also has some fairly advanced stuff too. It is also Opensource which makes it even better in my view. [...]

Making the web work for you

Our lives are often enslaved by time – busyness rules… so how do we find the time to keep up-to-date with everything. The internet for one can capture you and swallow hours without you even noticing it, or the thought of wasting time surfing puts you off looking in the first place.
You may already be [...]