I recently read in the paper that with rising fuel costs that many families would cross the fuel poverty line this winter. The fuel poverty line is the point at which over 10% of the household income is spent on heating bills. Some people have said that with rising pressures like this many families will struggle to keep their children in smart uniform and this raises the question as to whether buying shoes just for school is justified.

I believe strongly that it is. Children wear their school shoes every single …

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Housewifery is experiencing a revival, and housewives are once

I originally wrote this blog post for EcoStreet.com.
I’ve long been an admirer of Cynthia Korzekwa’s blog “art for housewives”. The idea behind Cynthia’s art (and blog) is the recycling of household items into art. She uses what many would consider to be rubbish to frame her work, or to inspire it, or to be the canvas for her unique paintings. All of her pieces of art have a special spirit that is carried forward from the items that they are recycled from, making them far more interesting …