Tilting

In our enthusiasm for modifying our behaviour, we often go for All Or Nothing. However, I believe that TILTING is more realistic. Like when I gave up eating meat for 17 years, I still used leather ...so I tilted in the direction of lowering my dependency on domestic animals. Now we are (hopefully) beginning to embrace our carbon footprints. But I can't help using long-hall flights, a car and a trillion other things that are really not going to help the planet. I do recycle, and have done so since collecting milk bottle tops for Blue Peter in the '60s. I do turn things off more, choose less carbon nasty goods and so on. So what I am consciously doing is tilting towards being carbon neutral.

Now if everyone of us in the industrialised world did one small energy-saving thing each day, then the result could equal the output of one power station in a year. So if we all started tilting a bit in the same direction, the collective result would be good, and hopefully the titling gets stronger.

So my motto is: "Less Guilt, just Tilt."

Pathetic Fallacy

It's great weather, the blossom is bursting out and it's just about the best time to be most places, especially Britain.

So where am I off to tomorrow? Alice Springs in the centre of Australia. Accepting the invitation to speak at the conference there, seemed a good idea at the time. Wish it was raining here now!

Unique Names

I started this blog off, using the Sobriquet 'Blog Bloke'.

I was asked by the "original Blog Bloke" to not use that name, as he apparently has it "trade marked".

OK. I've happily changed my monicker; no sweat ...BUT is there a point in restricting unique usage? I mean, we all have our given names, registered at birth ...but we are rarely the sole user of that name. I'm happy to be enlightened!

Spike Milligan

I vaguely remember watching a Spike Milligan series on UK TV show in the late 60s or early 70s, where every now and then, there would be a fake commercial for 'Snibbo'. Whatever, the problem, Snibbo could solve it. Anyone out there know what I'm talking about?