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We’ve all had them, we can see piles and piles of them in the shops. A thin card sleeve with this season’s popular film characters on and inside that a moulded plastic tray meant to hold tiny slivers of poor quality chocolate that all fall out and lurk at the bottom of the box.

My kids love them. They love the idea of a countdown to Christmas, a small gift or treat each day leading up to the big event. Of course they’ve been seduced by modern commercialism and in previous years they’ve had thos… Continue

I used to be someone who thought that violence solves nothing and that most of the warzones in the world are unnecessary and assorted western countries have no right to send troops into less developed countries and we have no right to impose our democracy on anyone. So I had little sympathy or empathy for any of the armed forces stationed abroad beyond, “It must be hard being away from family for so long but you chose that life.” But thanks to … Continue

I have sitting on my desk an Indigo Essences Sleep Easy candle in need of a home.

Would you like it?

Then place an order over £10 with Ethics Trading and tell me you want it in the order comments space. I’ll pop the candle into the next order that meets those criteria. Simple as that.

Will it be you?

I’ve used a few different shopping systems on Ethics Trading, from the simplest paypal buttons through to the fully integrated cubecart. I like the full systems with all the bells and whistles on, but they tend to be a bit clunky for customers, especially at the part where you have to register and some even make you wait while your registration is verified before you can buy anything.

So, although the various straight out of the box, often… Continue

Anyone else found squidoo yet? I discovered it as a networking, information based site about a year or so ago and I really didn’t like it. It was slow, not intuitive and the help pages were no help at all. So I abandoned my account and ignored it.

Until now.

This week I’ve revisited Squidoo and updated some of my pages on there – Squidoo calls them lenses. You can see them here: http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/SarahBa… Continue