'Letters for Change' and my call for armchair activists!!!!

Do you know about an event that you want to talk about? Is there a campaign you have started, are involved in or want to start? Inspired by Marvin Gaye this is your place to tell the world what's going on.
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Post: # 121364Post Tracey Smith »

Hey all!

Hope you're well.

I'm positively chuffed to bits to say the book I've been writing for the early part of the year is now almost OUT!!!

It's called 'The Book of Rubbish Ideas' and it comes out on the 25th September - there's a website at http://www.BookOfRubbishIdeas.co.uk and you can have a good sniff through to see what it's all about.

Yesterday, we posted the Introduction to the book and you can read it via this wicked little gadget thingie (am a complete technophobe) and it looks exactly like the actual book! The pages even turn.....(I'm easily pleased)....

....anyway, today the IT blokes have put up a whole chapter for you to enjoy - it's the Kitchen, so make a cuppa and dive in when you have 10 minutes spare.

But the bit I want to really draw your attention to, is the Letter for Change at the back of that chapter. All through the book, I've written letters (well, actually my original manuscript had them as proper letters, but the Editor changed them to emails - oh well...you'll get the drift)... They all relate to different aspects of reducing rubbish and the one featured in the Kitchen chapter is one of my favourites....!!!!

I urge you to copy it out and send it on to YOUR local supermarket and please keep me informed of what happens next....

I think if this were able to really be kicked about in this country, it could mark the start of the consumers taking the reins and calling the shots! The retailers HAVE to listen to us and a noisy public campaign could nudge them towards making better decisions with regards to packaging - the bain of our lives!

I really hope you get a chance to have a read through it and would love to hear from you with your thoughts, particularly if you are champing at the bit to write that Letter of Change!!!!

:cheers:

Power to the people!

TS
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Post: # 121448Post StripyPixieSocks »

Hi...

GOOD LUCK with the book... I love books... lots and lots of books :mrgreen:

I will go check it out now!

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Post: # 121449Post Tracey Smith »

StripyPixieSocks - what a wickedly good name!

Tonight, I am fluffypinkanklesocks (it's freezing here tonite!)...

Thank you for your kind comment and I hope you enjoy trolling around the pages of the book - I am a book nut too and have a good few hundred of them stashed around the house. Pretty much all of them are from the Charity Shops or hand me downs from friends.

The kitchen holds my biggest stash and cookery books are one of the loveliest items to behold (you can tell I don't get out much...)... :lol:

One of my favourite places - surprisingly enough - is me local library and I'm well excited about doing a reading there in after the book comes out...! We go almost every Saturday morning and the kids love it too - get them involved with books while they are young and they'll never be alone...

Happy reading!
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Post: # 129363Post Helsbells »

Looks great Tracey, I just purchased a copy.

Helen

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Post: # 129364Post Tracey Smith »

:flower: Hiya Helen!

Thank you and I hope you enjoy my rubbishy read!

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Post: # 129366Post LBR »

Tracey, congratulations! And your blog is great, too!

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I thank you too!

What a nice nite for compliments - lolol...

TS
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PS: There are some great old posts amongst them - do trawl back a few pages, there's sure to be something to catch your eye :lol:
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Post: # 130889Post Helsbells »

Hi Tracy,

Have nearly finished your book, and can I just say that its great, and with so many brilliant ideas.
I now have a long list of "things to do" to reduce my waste, and feel I am on a mission to stop putting out a bag of rubbins every week altogether!

Thanks, its a really great book.

Helen

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Post: # 130952Post Tracey Smith »

Hi Helen - I am chuffed to bits that it's really helped you on your way and thank you for your kind words!

:flower:

My best advice is for you to work through your 'to do' list gently but firmly!

Don't do everything overnight or it's like the kiss of death to a great plan and you may feel overwhelmed and overloaded!

Tackle the simple stuff and ramp it all up a bit at a time, then it's not too much of a change to your schedule and you're more likely to incorporate it into your long term.

All the best chick,

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