Hello again!

Hello – extremely long time, no see!

Apologies for being gone for a pretty long time – it has been just under 10 months since I last did a blog post, and since then I’ve sporadically used my Instagram page. The main reason for this is that I have been very busy, and just keeping up with a 9-5, a small social life and general self-care has been a bit much. The other reason is that my perspective has changed slightly, which is what I want to start talking about today.

When I first started this blog, my focus was on small changes like keeping hold of jars, making dry shampoo or using up food scraps. Those things are still really important to me, but through my job and my continued research and education about climate change, I’ve realised how much system change we need. The cold, hard truth is that without that system change, the jars, dry shampoo and food scraps make a tiny dent, and don’t do much more.

Let me reiterate – I still think that all those things (everything I’ve yapped on about on this blog) are impactful and important, especially if we all share and support each other. But, there is no doubt that a lot of these things are difficult, and that it would be easier if the system was built and maintained to make these things easy. Maybe then we wouldn’t be in this mess. Additionally, there are some things that cannot be overcome by using lemon peel to clean my sink (much to my disappointment).

So what does this mean for the blog?

I guess I want to show how my mindset has changed by incorporating both angles. So that means some recipes/DIYs/things that are more climate friendly, but also some more informative posts about the science of climate change or the barriers that we have to overcome.

Hopefully I’ll be able to put some posts out over the next few weeks. In the meantime, if there is anything you would like me to write about, please let me know – I want this blog to be useful and informative, not just lots of staged pictures of me with recycling (although there will be some of that).

Until next time!