The Carbon Neutral Company has some fantastic ideas for ecologically aware Christmas presents. I love the idea of the medieval sundial kit for children to make.

They also enable you to buy the usual suspects - a tree, a windup radio, and dryer balls, to name but 3. These items are all widely available these days, but they are very nicely packaged at this site, where you can also host your wedding list.

I have been trying very hard not to use our tumble dryer at all, but must confess to running it twice this week to get sheets dry in time to go back on the bed. I have been using the Aga (yes, I know, I’m really lucky, and it is a luxury in itself) to dry the washing overnight. So the tumble dryer balls aren’t much use to me. However, they are also selling balls to go in the washing machine, to both clean and soften the clothes, and these are tempting. I’m not convinced by the softening thing though - doesn’t anyone else find that clothes sometimes go stiff on the washing line, and need to be ironed to soften them again? No, I don’t mean just when the clothes freeze!

Ironing - something else I’ve been cutting out. No carbon emissions from this house due to ironing!

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