There’s an app for that……probably.  But now there’s also a fantastic A5 booklet that we’ve produced for environmental charity BTCV to help get you started. It’s full of tips and advice on how you can reduce your impact on the environment, reduce your food miles, be more carbon-aware and cut back on waste – all by growing your own courgettes, who’d have thought? The booklet offers advice on how to forage for free food (note. We accept no responsibility for being shot while trespassing, poisoned whilst eating the wrong sort of mushroom or outbreaks of rare or life-threatening skin conditions from nettles and the like) and how to eat with the seasons.

It’s also got a bit of background to some of the great projects BTCV have underway currently and details on how you can get involved in rural and urban community work in your area. Plus, it features celebrity recipes too – if you’re thinking Beyonce’s Maple Syrup and Lemon Juice Supper, Reese Witherspoon ‘s baby food feast or Posh’s Salt & Vinegar blowout, then think again. We’ve got yummy, wholesome recipes for soups, meatballs, muffins and flapjacks from the likes of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Charlie Dimmock and Julia Bradbury. And I can say from experience that they’re delicious because I’ve made some of them myself.  The courgette cake was delish but was squeezed out in the final edit to make way for Beetroot Bolognese – I kid you not!

The guide’s free and you can request your own copy at www.btcv.org/carbonarmy

Subject: General by Liz

We really, really love the clients we work with, so to have them rate us as highly as they have on the Recommended Agency Register is really satisfying. Sandi’s happy that she’s being recognised as ‘passionate’, Neil slightly less so by the description ‘punctual’ !!! Even, if I do say so myself, what a fantastic team we make - fusing passion, creativity and strategic thinking, with a strong sense of delivery, attention to detail and accuracy – clients’ words not mine. And, let’s not forget our lovely creative guys who were described as refreshing and held in high regard.

So what’s not to love about us? (Apart from the unattractive smugness we’re displaying here, possibly!! And the continued overuse of exclamation marks!!!!!!!)

Subject: General by Liz

For the youngsters out there, this was the title of a famous comedy film from the 60s/70s. Obviously I don’t remember it either!! Anyway, the Foundation t-shirt has been on its travels again, this time it’s been to the South of France. The t-shirt seriously enjoyed its time at Monaco’s Historic Grand Prix over May Bank Holiday weekend – in fact, I don’t think it wanted to come back to cold, cloudy old Gran Bretagne. Who could blame it? Mixing as it did with the fashionably well-heeled, the sheer quality and style of the t-shirt meant it felt quite at home with the luxe labels and limited editions. I, on the other hand, felt a little uncomfortable. For starters, the fashion at the moment would appear to be for the over enlarged trout- pout. This currently only seems to be affecting the ladies – but give it time; but generally the flatness of their posteriors  suggests that they’re probably shifting fat from butt to lips – it’s not an attractive look, infact it’s rather comical, especially when you watch them eat or drink! The second crime is the classic Med look for the male silver fox – without exception they ALL wear custard coloured chinos, light blue shirt and navy jumper loosely tied round the shoulders, regardless of age. Sooooo boring! Finally my last observation is to do with dogs, more precisely their poo. Nice’s dog-loving population has a serious objection to picking up their dog’s do’s –  it’s quite literally merde, and plays havoc with the hem of your maxidress!

Subject: General by Liz