Oooh, I have a shiny new theme.
Month: August 2014
The Story of Stuff
I’ve got a few bits and pieces to report, but none of them ground breaking. I have committed to reading more, so The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist is being gnawed away steadily. I had a major disagreement with my Kobo device as it decided not to update where I had got to! It has done this…
Temptation and the long road
I am discovering so much about post consumerism. That’s not for this post, but I just wanted to share. Diary wise, I am cracking through The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist, and it is proving to be a much more relevant book to the whole ethos of this blog than I was expecting. Anyway, onwards. its late…
This Blog’s title and a collective noun for the consumer
This Blog’s Title My first thought for a title to this blog was “consumerless”. I am a consumer, but I want to do it less. I had a quick look at what was available on blogspot and found a bit of an odd, but I think quite common, situation. http://consumerless.blogspot.co.uk/ (with an r) hosts an almost…
Whoopsie
Oh fowl harpie of consumption. Two minutes after starting this blog and I have consumed!! I have fallen off the wagon and bought something. Admittedly it is not book related. How could it be? How could my conscience survive if I had wandered from the path so soon after starting my journey? Never fear dear…
Book Review – Peter Pan – J.M.Barrie
So here is my first Post Consumer Book Club post, and it is a book review of Peter Pan by J.M.Barrie. The book is one of the reasons that I started the blog and a bit of a cheat because I only acquired it recently, so it is not one of the stack of books…