This is my confession. I cannot resist cheap clothes. Primark (which is a very affordable fashion retailer by the way) seems to have a magnetic force which pulls me in. The force is especially strong when there's a big red SALE sign in the window. I just get sucked into this huge shop full of poorly made clothes. I look at all that synthetic fabric, in all the pretty colours, and I just can't help myself. It's a disease. I just can't seem to kick the habit. I know that what I'm doing is wrong, but I keep on doing it. I keep going in there and buying their cheap clothes. Help me! The prices are just too low for me to resist! Why is this a moral dilemma for me? I'll tell you why. Firstly, synthetic fabrics are terrible for the environment. They're really terrible. Synthetic fabrics are made using a number of complex chemical processes and treatments. Polyester, nylon and similar fabrics are made from petroleum, causing a lot of energy consumption and...

My trees, real and fake! What is Christmas/Yule without a twinkling fir tree, laden with baubles? It has been a custom to decorate spaces with greenery for festivals since pre-Christian times. Medieval churches purchased holly and ivy for Christmas decorations. In the town of Rye, holly twigs were wound up with broom and candles placed among them. Private homes were decorated likewise, with holly inside and ivy on the porch, and anything else that could be found green at that time of year, like rosemary, bay laurel, yew, box, broom, and mistletoe. The Protestant reformers weren't keen on all this "paganism" and sought to ban Yuletide festivities altogether. Christmas decorations disappeared between 1645 and 1660 when Christmas was actually illegal in England. When Christmas made a comeback, the 'kissing bush' was invented. The custom of kissing under a bush of foliage, five or six feet round, spread across the whole of England by the nineteenth century. Elab...

Alright, it's time to get serious about being an adult human. This means taking responsibility for your actions, and actually thinking about the way your daily actions impact the rest of the world. I know there's a lot of nasty shit in the world that you don't really want to be part of your life, so you'd rather ignore that stuff. But what if you could change the world? What if the tiny parts of your seemingly insignificant life could actually CHANGE the world? Yeah yeah, what difference does it make if one person starts doing things differently? Well you know what, that one person can be a shining example to the people around them, and then bam, five people have changed their lives. Those five people all influence another five people each. KABLAMO. The pattern continues, and before you know it, a shit tonne of people have changed the way they live, and are positively influencing the rest of the world. YOU can be one of those people! Are you ready? Let's go.... ...