I refuse to buy organic garlic flown in from Argentina or Israeli carrots when we can grow both crops here. I recycle dutifully and keep a compost pot by the kitchen sink. I use bicarbonate of soda to clean the fridge and microwave and wipe the windows with vinegar. I try to conserve energy in the house (The bills! The bills!). It’s a pretty book and the author seems nice, so why does it make my hackles rise? I can’t really count the book for the Library Challenge as I only dipped into it but it’s a dipping sort of book, with handy hints for greener living presented seasonally. Anna Shepard writes (wrote?) the Eco-Worrier column for The Times the column name and the punning book title hint that the idea is to be amusing as well as green. Green Issues’ sticker, I would never have taken it home. Had I looked inside and seen the ‘Bridport. I picked this shiny new book by mistake in the library, thinking it was about gardening. How two million women survived without men after the first world war, Virginia Nicholson The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart Teatime for the Traditionally Built, Alexander McCall Smith
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