So, Freecycling huh? It IS a great system, but I hadn't banked on one minor detail - 130 replies!!! It took hours sifting through the pleas and requests for this, that and the other (thank goodness, not too much of the other!!) and I felt I should at least say "I'm sorry, it's gone" to all the unsuccessful applicants. One or two odds and ends were only wanted by one person, which made life easier, but some of the stuff I could have given ten times over and some!! It was a dire experience and next time (And there WILL be a next time) I'll just post a few items at a time and deal with them. Interestingly enough it was the camping gear that was most popular. The "credit crunch" has hit hard and camping has become the new must-have holiday destination.
Segueing smoothly into another interesting and topical subject - Global Warming. Sitting down to lunch oday (briefly, between making Leo's sarnies and piling up goodies for Freecyclees) I opened and read Jerry's WWF magazine in preference to the local rags: protecting rainforests wins over "Man cleared over citizens arrest" every time! It was Tom Crompton's article that really made me sit up (www.wwf.org.uk/strategiesforchange) Can we ever alter our materialistic, wasteful habits enough or will it be a cataclysmic event that forces us into change? Can folks really be educated to change their day to day methods of living and working or will it be a major incident that compels us to accept that life WILL be different ie: when the oil runs out - and it will. We cannot - no matter what - replicate 50M years of creation of fossil fuels. In good old-fashioned supermarket speak " When it's gone, it's gone". And a lot of other stuff will be too. And no matter how we try to stick our heads in the sand and ignore it - IT'S OUR FAULT!!!
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