It’s a small step, but today I bought 3 onions, 3 parsnips & 2 heads of broccoli. In the past I might have put them in plastic bags for their trip through the supermarket to the cupboard/fridge. Today I went bag-free. It felt quite liberating, and unusually the checkout operator didn’t try to give me bags at the checkout, which has happened before now.

I failed on the buying beef (from Tesco) and also nappy sacks. My problem with nappy disposal is that because I use my own shopping bags, I don’t generate enough plastic bags for disposal to keep up with the rate at which Joel goes through nappies. Yes, I could have carried on using washables, but once he was on solid foods I quickly got to the point where I was fed up with dealing with all the poo.

I will be back in that place presently, as we will have another try at going nappy free next weekend (as the nursery teacher implied, at 3 1/2 it’s about bl**dy time). It would have been this weekend, but we’re off to Wrexham tomorrow to pick up our new (second-hand) tent. So purchasing second-hand has cost us another week of nappies. Give with one hand….