Save Money, Reduce Rubbish: Workshops with Tracey Smith

The Book of Rubbish Ideas positively celebrates reducing waste in your home and keeping more money in your pocket by being savvy with some of your shopping ideas. Of course, cooking from fresh is a terrific way of combining both and I’ve been doing it for years.  I started making simple recipe loaves and rolls [...]

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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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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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I’m Ready for the ‘Ultimate’ in Recycling

I’ve had my mortality pricked.  A dear friend recently lost her father and his living wish was for his body left to medical science, but unfortunately, because all the necessary paperwork hadn’t been completed, it wasn’t able to happen. Consequently, I’ve found myself in a somewhat pensive state, questioning life, the universe and everything, with particular [...]

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‘Your’ Fabulous Rubbish Flatbreads!

This post has been inspired by the lovely Emily C who made flatbreads for the first time recently. So many of you write and share your Great-Breaden experiences (sorry, that was truly awful) and I thought it would be fun to let you all loose in my virtual bakery! Please post your recipe derivations for [...]

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Look ‘Inside’ The Book of Rubbish Ideas!

Ooh! I nipped on Amazon this morning (as you do) and The Book of Rubbish Ideas popped up (as it does) and there’s a new ‘sneaky peek inside the book’ thingie widget to play with…! (How sad – so easily pleased…) Anyway, I thought perhaps new readers to the blog might like to have a [...]

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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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A Weekend of Talking Rubbish!

Hi all! Just a shortie, boy have I got a packed weekend ahead of me.  On Saturday, I’ll be broadcasting an hour of my ‘Slow Down and Green Up’ radio show (usual slot every Wednesday between 10 and 1pm) in celebration of the fact that our radio station has been broadcasting for 40 years to [...]

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