Railholiday Blog

I feel myself fortunate to have friends of all nationalities. Of these friends a few have fled from conflict. These include a conservationist, artist, musician, doctor, economist, chemist and locksmith. The countries they have fled from are as diverse as Iran, Serbia and Trinidad. All showed enormous bravery in coming to an alien territory to escape […]

The last few days have been very busy. Because our web providers accidentally wiped out our Railholiday blog (rather than the subscription to our band website that we’d asked them to cancel), I’ve had to start again from scratch. Luckily Dave found an Internet Archive website, with a very useful function called Wayback Machine that […]

It’s extraordinary to think that four years ago we were in deep lockdown, and life was so radically different. One of the memorable incidents of early Covid was the sudden rush to stock up on essentials leading to empty shelves, and a toilet roll shortage. Of all the things we felt we couldn’t manage without, […]

We live on a planet with finite resources, but we often behave as though our resources are infinite. A circular economy is an important cog in the tools we need to keep our planet healthy for generations to come. But what does circular economy actually mean? The term circular economy relates to resources. Once a product is […]

Or at least spending it locally… Inequality is a massive issue when it comes to climate change and social unrest. The wealthy, through their powerful media channels, are great at scapegoating the lower echelons of society. The truth is that the wealthiest are most likely to have the highest carbon footprint, through greater energy costs, […]