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What The Good Life can tell us about self-sufficiency

February 2, 2010

The Good Life was an inspirational sitcom from the 1970s about Tom and Barbara giving up their regular employed, consumer-driven lives in favour of self-sufficiency. The Guardian imagined how it came about.

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Free Delia Smith DVDs

January 30, 2010

The Daily Mail is giving away free Delia Smith DVDs, but you’d better get in quick. The first of four vouchers is printed today, with the second, third and fourth printed between Monday and Wednesday.

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Money for nothing

February 6, 2007

Not only do we champion the low-cost lifestyle here at Blagger; we also like the idea of easy income, which is why we were interested to read strategies for prize-winning in the latest edition of The Week. Quoting from The Guardian, it has handy hints for getting onto TV quiz shows: ‘Remember personality is what [...]

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Compost

February 5, 2007

A little premature perhaps, but Compost Guide is an excellent source of information on – not surprisingly – composting your biodegradable home waste. I’m linking to it here for future reference, as it includes an excellent table of the products you can put in your home compost bin, and what kind of beneficial effects they [...]

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Green paper

February 5, 2007

Websites aren’t as fun to read as papers, but they are greener. So, get the best of both worlds with G24. It’s five condensed versions of the Guardian, updated throughout the day, available to download for free as a PDF. Best of all, they have the same look and feel as the printed paper itself.

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