A while ago, in the halcyon, pre-pandemic days, when the most pressing concerns were Brexit and global warming, I remember having a startling thought: One day soon, I might run out of plastic bags. Way back in the teenties, long before supermarkets started charging for them, I had stopped accepting plastic bags in response toContinue reading “The resurgence of plastic bags”
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Face masks in my garden
Situated on a T-junction, with only a few streets between it and the gusts of the English Channel, our house tends to get a lot of litter blown into its front garden. Over the time we have lived here, I have got used to picking up crisp packets, drinks cans and chocolate wrappers that haveContinue reading “Face masks in my garden”
A Journal of the Plague Year 