Climate change and your home
If your reaction to climate change has so far been a bit ostrich-like, maybe a new website from English Heritage will help you get your head right out of that sand.
Specifically aimed at owners of traditional and period properties, website www.climatechangeandyourhome.org.uk looks at what environmental change could mean for your property. While acknowledging that traditional properties are resilient and adaptable, it also shows how to make sensible changes to weather the storms ahead – from flooding to high temperatures and high winds – along with ways to make your home more energy efficient.
Handily, you can customise the site to suit the specific concerns of your type and period of property, so the advice is tailor-made for you. If you’re anything like us, this site could be the wake-up call you need to start seriously considering making a few changes.
www.climatechangeandyourhome.org.uk
clothkits
Want lovely, bright, wearable clothes that you know for sure weren’t made anywhere near a sweatshop? Then pay a visit to clothkits, which can 100% guarantee the right-on-ness of everything they sell. But how, we hear you asking? Simple. They supply the kits – you do the sewing. In these cheap clothes equal cheap labour times, not only are clothkits a no-brainer, they might actually remind you what fun it can be making your own clothes. Don’t feel ready to give up your designer wardrobe just yet? Then experiment on your kids, we love their Smiley Lion Dungarees, or their 70s-inspired dollies.
To order visit www.clothkits.co.uk or call 01243 600301
Save the rhino with a Beasty Bag
Designer beanbag company Beasty Bags have joined with UK charity Save the Rhino International to save the Sumatran rhino, one of the rarest mammals on earth.
Endearingly described as ‘small, hairy and nimble’, the Sumatran rhino is the last living member of the wooly rhino family – and there are only 275 individual animals still alive in the wild. Although they’ve been around for over 30 million years, a combination of logging, agriculture and poachers have now brought them to near-extinction.
Beasty Bags – who produce great handmade beanbags for kids – have made a special rhino beanbag, and are donating a percentage of the sales to Save the Rhino.
Beasty Bags are fun and versatile, with practical washable covers – in stylish printed cottons or smart faux leather and suede – and also available as lions, hippos and elephants. From £145, with free delivery across the UK.
