Video: Tracey Smith & The Book of Rubbish Ideas

I shot a little film recently with a team from Sustainable Somerset, exploring the content of The Book of Rubbish Ideas and I thought you might like a sniff around my kitchen… Please feel free to pinch, publish and pass on! Rubbishly yours, TSx

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Tracey Smith on Newsnight Tonight?

I might well have been, had I lived closer to the centre of the universe (London that is). Late this afternoon, I received an invitation to appear on tonight’s Newsnight on the BBC; it seems they’re going to be talking a load of old rubbish…

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From the lovely John Naish on The Landfill Prize!

Golf club-shaped urinal, anyone? Motorised ice-cream cone holder? In the depths of the global crunch, why would anyone want to waste precious money on pointless junk that ends up in the trashcan after a couple of uses? But sales of consumer nonsense are still rocketing – stuff such as wand-shaped TV remote controls, desk-top hoovers, [...]

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Oh, There’s So Much To Catch Up On!

And only one lifetime to do it – eek! Hi all – delighted to be back blogging again on The Book of Rubbish Ideas. After a rock and roll of a summer (well, as much as being an author can ‘be’ rock and roll of course) doing literary festivals around the country, evaluating and playing [...]

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What on Earth’s an Earthship?

I love hearing from people who are doing amazing things to protect and care for our present and future environments for the generations yet to come. I genuinely feel very excited to be one of many optimistic green activists, at a pivotal point in earth’s history; we are the generation that will make incredible positive [...]

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I’ve Got Rubbish ‘Ways With Words’

Of all the Literary Festivals I’ve appeared at this year, Ways With Words at the beautiful Dartington Hall in Totnes is the one that has given me the biggest squidgy feeling in the pit of my stomach. The annual festival takes place from July 10-19 at Dartington Hall in South Devon and my slot is carved into [...]

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Sustainable Garden Pleasures: The Firewinder

Recently, I had the pleasure of driving with Joe Wadsworth in the Brighton to London Eco-Rally.   Aside from being a great co-driver, he’s also partly responsible for waving the flag for the ingenious Firewinder. Here, Joe shares his views on renewable and sustainable energy, as well as letting us into the secrets behind one of the hottest eco-products [...]

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Unleash Your Creativity (and cut down your rubbish!)

Good grief, it’s almost July and that means one thing… The race is on for work-at-home parents up and down the country to crack their most important jobs out before the onset of the 6-week school holidays. I’m not trying to make it sound like it’s a torturous event, on the contrary, it’s an honour [...]

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The World (on/at/and) My Feet…

It’s crafty Friday yet again. A few creative mums and I usually get together once a week for a bit of cutting, sticking or Morsbagging and today we decided to draw pictures all over each other – henna pictures to be precise and what a giggle it was. We used a couple of the henna [...]

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Hair today, gone tomorrow and other things…

Afternoon all and sundry. After many happy years of gert lush long hair flapping about in any sort of a wind, I decided to have it all lopped off. It was a decision I took a few weeks ago and I thought I’d just kick it around a bit before heading for the scissors to [...]

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