Hobby
https://www.shrubcoop.org/resource-packs/fabric-awareness-information-booklet/
I went to the launch it was really good.
Goals
7sep 2020
1 sep 2020
Goals meet
Churpies
Lemon Polenta Cake | Nigella’s Recipes | Nigella Lawson
The flat, plain disc is reminiscent of the confections that sit geometrically arranged in patisserie windows in Italy.
— Read on www.nigella.com/recipes/lemon-polenta-cake
Making a cake


An article that I wrote
Greener shopping choices
I try to shop as green as I can,
Take your own shopping bags I include little cloth bags for loose fruit. I know at the moment that might not be as appealing. You do what you can and feel comfortable with.
When buying fruit and vegetables, shop local and shop seasonally Our own vegetables and fruit are a lot fresher and taster, try a blind taste test, is something fun to do while on lockdown. I’m also vegetarian, which is much cheaper than buying meat. If you cut back your meat consumption it’s always a start. You can replace meat with lentils or soya, you will find that you use herbs and seasoning a lot more. I don’t miss meat I have had about 3 bacon rolls in the last year and a half. It’s important to do what you feel comfortable with.
Do what you feel ok with.
Clothes are my thing, buy from charity shops or eBay so giving new life to clothes gives be me a buzz. Saving money and finding a bargain gives me a huge kick!
I also treat myself to shoes and where I can I recycle shoes or mend them.
It’s also important not to feel deprived with any life change.
Which will be published in Time a magazine for sustainablity
Coronavirus virtually
Met with Gavin
We have decided on the survey questions
Buying a new washing machine
Looking for the most economical choice!
Wrote to Tesco Asda
About the plastic and there role in its production. Got this standard response.
Exercises
Glute bridges
Half burpees
Rows
Me outside the polling station for 2 hrs for the Greenparty
Coronavirus
Me making some wax wraps
How to make beeswax wraps – Countryfile.com
Ideal for keeping food fresh for longer, these easy to make bees-wax wraps can be used for sandwiches, covering leftovers and much more!
— Read on www.countryfile.com/how-to/crafts/make-beeswax-wraps/
I have done this. It was easy and fun to do
I’ve got a broken rib
So I’m out of action
Question for bike life
Carbon college








Carbon college
What we discussed today



Sunday exercise
Carbon college
We did our introductions.
Then we had a discussion about

- What are we sure about
- We where certain that it’s happening
- We are certain something needs to be done
- That being part of a collective is a good thing
- It’s depressing
- We are certain that the government is not doing enough
- It will be poorer countries that will suffer more
- Wether individual actions make a difference
- Or wether one action can make a difference
- For example turning of one light is going to save the planet
- one thing you’re not sure about
- how long we’ve got


Huld
Exercise
Me and my bike
I have bought clothes
Three skirts bought today as I have made the decision just to wear skirts for ease of access.
I failed I needed New jodhpurs
So I got them.
Dishwasher tablets
Does not have plastic covering.
It’s covering is biogradable
Dead lift s
Soap making
Went to a soap making class with my Mum it was fun we made soap lip balm and a lotion receipies to follow
Great post
today s exercise
me doing chest press
Just bought these cloths
They look good!
and the person who made it signed it
Mending my clothes
I sprang a leak in my leggings one pair mended one to go!
Huld
Huld
Huld
My new washing machine
Exercises
Huld off Ill
Went to phisio today.
Got some exercises!
My friend Sally
Wrote this article
https://cityexile.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/more-light-than-heat-2/
Ordered some silicone bags for freezer
I use my disability railcard
To travel any distance.
Or my bus pass
If they are both not doable then I use a taxi
My banking
I bank with Triodos and the credit union.
I m planning on
Reusing work tee-shirts as cloths
Today s exercises
We got certified got my book written up
All in all I faced a few fears horse riding was one massive one but on the whole I had a great time. Helen also enjoyed herself. I meet some amazing people
Thursday morning
Was bush craft we had an enjoyable morning making fire, toasting marshmallows popping corn, and drinking hot chocolate.
Below is me making fire
And some popcorn.
Thursday afternoon
Was zip wire fun
Had here is Diana gracefully decent
And my screaming decent
Wednesday afternoon
We went sailing in lake braithwait which was really good if a bit cold and damp. I was told I was a natural when I was steering it.
Wednesday morning
We went on the wheelchair challenge but the challenge was getting there more than the actual challenge. But it was good fun
I bought one set of pans
25 years ago and they are still going strong.
Arrival at the Calvert Trust
We got shown to our rooms after our three and a half hour car journey from Edinburgh which was uneventful. But we did stop of in Moffat for our lunch.
Our rooms were basic but all we needed.
After tea we met with Rob and then we went for a walk.
A view from the mini bus!
The next day it was a two mile walk in glorious sunshine..
It was really wonderful to access the countryside, on such a nice day.
Our afternoon session was horse riding something that I thought I’d never attempt again!here is a video of me mounting.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0tmq1ayW4-BtYq4hBcNdHTHnA#Lake_District_National_Park
Me and fudge doing our thing
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0rR40Cycmeq-28h5JjQEJH66g#Lake_District_National_Park
After tea I took the opportunity to go for a dip in the pool.
Kitchen downsize
Only have one spoon one can opener it is all you need.
Exercise
50 squats
10 with a weight
Excercise
Glute bridges
Half burpee
Rows
Squats with weight
British shopping
Calvert trust
Helen and I traveled down we stopped of at the Green frog which was full of plastic stuff and only green in name.
Below is the the toilet in the green frog
Met with gavin
Decided on survey questions. Interviewed himself with the questions which decided that they worked.
Here’s the reply from councillor Steve Burgess Hi Caroline, Here’s an explanation about LDPE materials. Regards Steve —————– Steve Burgess Green Cllr Southside-Newington Ward Dear Councillor Burgess. I refer to the email trail below, and can advise that the waste management industry is typically reluctant to accept plastic bags as part of kerbside and household recycling due to the issues of the plastic causing equipment failures (it wraps round the sorting equipment) and causes contamination of other streams. Similarly the plastics industry prefers to collect it through the collection network operated by the major retailers which is cheaper and offers them better quality. Most large supermarkets operate banks for LDPE bags, wrappers, etc. These are now often labelled as “check locally” or “not at kerbside” using the industry wide On Pack Labelling Scheme, as in the example below. We have no plans to add this material to our own recycling services at present. I hope this helps. Yours sincerely Angus
Yaz has agreed to
Do my audio typing which is great
This is my laundry cleaner
Found this pin interest useful
Third lot of questions
This is an anonymous survey.
The purpose is to see how it’s going with neatebox welcome.
I’m independent from neatebox and doing this for voluntary as I am doing this as part of my discovery award silver. (Duke of Edinburgh’s award for old people)
I would also like to take this opportunity to thankyou very much
For your time
How many times is neatebox used in the week(approximately)?
Have you had people book on neatebox and then don’t turn up yes no?
How many?
How do you feel Neatebox has helped you deliver better customer service?
Examples please?
What impact has Welcome had on a day-to-day basis in your role?
How do you feel Welcome could improve to help you in your role, or to help your organisation? Is there anything that you’d improve on?
Would you recommend neatebox to people employed in similar roles? Yes no
or to similar organisations? Yes no
Have you told any customers about Neatebox, if they’re not already using it? How did they react?
Do you have any thing else you’d like to add
And Thankyou for your time.
Second lot of questions
This is an anonymous survey.
The purpose is to see how it’s going with neatebox welcome.
I’m independent from neatebox and doing this for voluntary as I am doing this as part of my discovery award silver. (Duke of Edinburgh’s award for old people)
I would also like to take this opportunity to thankyou very much for your time.
Have you used neatebox box?
How many times?(approximately)
I’m sure you gave top class service before Neatebox how has neatebox improved your ability to deliver even better (or enhanced) customer service?
What does that make you feel?
Is there anything that you’d improve on?
If you where to move jobs and where in a similar position would you recommend neatebox?
Volunteer
The first lot of questions
This is not a judgment on you it will be done anonymously your honesty can help us improve the app
How do you think you are round people with disabilities one word answers before and after Neatebox?
What do you think you’re customers would say about you
• Do you feel comfortable around people with a visual ?
◎ Yes very. impairment
◎ yes but a bit nervous
◎ no experience
◎ Neatebox helps
◎ Neatebox doesn’t help
Comments
• Do you feel comfortable and confident around people who are deaf
◎ Yes very.
◎ yes but a bit nervous
◎ no experience
◎ Neatebox helps
◎ Neatebox doesn’t help
•
• Do you know bsl
Yes No
What about deaf blind
◎ Yes very.
◎ yes but a bit nervous
◎ no experience
◎ Neatebox helps
◎ Neatebox doesn’t help
• Do you feel comfortable and confident around people who are deaf and have a speech impediment
◎ Yes very.
◎ yes but a bit nervous
◎ no experience
◎ Neatebox helps
◎ Neatebox doesn’t help
•
Do you feel comfortable around people with limited Mobility
◎ Yes very.
◎ yes but a bit nervous
◎ no experience
◎ Neatebox helps
◎ Neatebox doesn’t help
Do you feel comfortable and confident around people who use a wheelchair
◎ Yes very.
◎ yes but a bit nervous
◎ no experience
◎ Neatebox helps
◎ Neatebox doesn’t help
Do you feel comfortable and confident around people who use a communication device be it a bliss board or an electronic device
◎ Yes very.
◎ yes but a bit nervous
◎ no experience
◎ Neatebox helps
◎ Neatebox doesn’t help
Have you ever felt like you have said the wrong thing to a person with a disabilities, it’s ok I do it all the time.
All the time. Sometimes never
Do you find neatebox useful
Yes very
Yes
No
Not at all
Do you know about Neatebox ?
◎ Yes
◎ No
◎ Unsure
What has been your experience of Neatebox
Does having the extra information from the welcome app make it easier for you to approach People of disabilities
Is there any improvements that you would make to neatebox
Hi Caroline
I think that this set of questions is certainly softer than the last ones and you have obviously given it a lot of thought. I cant tell you how many times I have written and rewritten this sort of thing before I was happy with it.
Looking at it again I wonder if they need to be even more friendly and not quite so long since you are going to be asking them and not actually giving out a questionnaire.
So Question 1 might be
Do you know anyone with a disability? This might start off a conversation without making anyone feel uncomfortable and then
Were you worried about talking to someone experiencing a problem you knew nothing about?
Question 2
Has this changed since you started using Neatebox?
This would lead on to
Question 3
Has this made a difference to how you feel about meeting someone with a disability.
Which in turn
Question 4
Has having the App helped you to learn more about the different issues that people using it might have?
Question 5
Hav you enjoyed the experience of using the App and helping those using it have an accessible experience?
This would help you work out what disabilities people know about, if they found the App useful to look up if they needed to. ETc. And how they feel now.
Having though round it I think you would get a better response from something like this and create an atmosphere where people would talk to you freely since they wouldn’t feel embarrassed in any way. I dont know what the others think. I would then take both sets of questions to Gavin and talk them both through with him and get his opinion.
Hope that is all helpful. Good luck with it all
Are you getting more people with disabilities through the door?
Enough to make it worthwhile
Customers who use neatebox survey
Do you use neatebox?
Have you ever experienced poor customer service
Why have you not used neatebox
If you have what difference has it made
What I did yesterday
me and some of south east edinburgh greens
On the stall at edinburgh city council first climate change festival
This could be a climate catastrophe so what do edinburgh city council do they turn it into a festival!
Or I could just try and eat Cameron Rose a well known climate change denier
Saving more plastic s
This bottle will be about 20 years old saving me about 60 bottles going into landfill
I shop at the refillery
My milk bottles for homemade yogurt
Loose vegetables no plastic
Organic things in jars
dry foodstuffs
.oils
Refilling bottles
Thank you
I use vinegar for most of my cleaning
twitter.com/hfiskjohnson/status/1143301016835637248
But here is an other solution!
Saving the world one email at a time
Saving the planet by getting people together
I organised the speaker.
Huld
1block 1 block!
Tunnocks and Doritos have been hit today
Shopping
2 things not from the UK everything can be recycling
Second hand books
Are the best you can read them and then pass them on.
I volunteer in Barnardo’s where you also get staff discount
Haag in daz
I’ll be following it up with an email to my council…
Saving the planet
Watching Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall it’s really good
this is the reply
Huld
I’m now in recovery
My best scrubber
This loofah is three months old. It’s just the same as when I bought it. No smell no plastic no waste.sustainable
Sainsbury’s
Here is a reasonable reply but I have pressed him to go further
I’ve just asked Morrison’s
How are they going plastic free?
Huld
Recycling centre
My recycling centre me recycling paper
where I do my recycling
me recycling plastics with 1 with in the recycling symbol s
And envelopes with the address obliterated
And cardboard
Which is all recycled in our green bins by EDINBURGH city council
Huld
Half burpee
Standing on my head doing squats clever eh!
Chest press

my exercise from Sunday
Huld
Chest press
Listening to a podcast
About terra cycle.
Organised the Green Party Stall
For the meadows festival.
which included organising the stall, volunteers, what we are putting on the stall, paying of the stall,
Reply from Sainsbury’s and one went out to tunnocks
I’ve updated my profile on twitter
u
Asda
The coop is going plastic single use free by 2023
Exercise on the 20th
Pilgrims choice
On my reduce single use plastics campaign
Asda
Still no reply from Asda!
Here’s what I did on the 14th of May
Single use plastics are bad
I’ve just asked Asda and Sainsbury’s what their plan is to end there use?
And here is there reply
And here’s the reply
We have committed to eliminating all single-use-plastic from Co-op branded packaging by 2023, and making the rest of our packaging ‘easy to recycle’. Read more ➡️ coop.uk/futureoffood ^Yasmin
Which I thought was fair
Saving the World
Sent this tweet today
Survey
I’ve made up some questions
And I have put the questions out for consultation and I have revised them.
These are Ann’s initial thoughts and my original questions
No rush take easyHi CarolineI will take a look and get back to you tomorrow having a rest day today. Any luck with your phone?AnnOn Fri, 10 May 2019 at 10:43, Caroline barr <cwbuk67@gmail.com> wrote:• Do you feel comfortable and confident around people who are blindYes very. yes but a bit nervous I don’t know. No. I avoid contactIf the last three an explanation pleaseIf you want• Do you feel comfortable and confident around people with a visual impairment?◎ Yes very. ◎ yes but a bit nervous ◎ I don’t know.◎ No.◎ I avoid contactIf the last three an explanation please• Do you feel comfortable and confident around people who are deaf• Do you know bslYes very. yes but a bit nervous I don’t know. No. I avoid contactIf the last three an explanation pleaseWhat about deaf blind• Do you feel comfortable and confident around people who are deaf and have a speech impedimentYes very. yes but a bit nervous I don’t know. No. I avoid contactIf the last three an explanation pleaseDo you feel comfortable and confident around people with limited MobilityYes very. yes but a bit nervous I don’t know. No. I avoid contactIf the last three an explanation pleaseDo you feel comfortable and confident around people who use a wheelchairYes very. yes but a bit nervous I don’t know. No. I avoid contactIf the last three an explanation pleaseDo you feel comfortable and confident around people who use a communication device be it a bliss board or an electronic deviceYes very. yes but a bit nervous I don’t know. No. I avoid ContactIf the last three an explanation pleaseHave you ever felt like you have said the wrong thing to a person with a disabilities, it’s ok I do it all the time.All the time. Sometimes neverDo you know about Neatebox ?◎ Yes◎ No◎ UnsureWhat has been your experience of NeateboxDoes having the extra information from the welcome app make it easier for you to approach People of disabilitiesIs there any improvements that you would make—
Sent from Gmail Mobile—
Ann Donnelly
Hobby
I’ve asked the group to ask their friends
I ve been chatting with John
About Neatebox it was interesting having a chat
Exercise
Did 40 staged squats with Nicky.
Thank you
I thanked the first 6 members
What Colin wrote about me
Yes I was recently invited to attend a celebration meal for one of our members (Caroline Barr) on the completion of her bronze level. Others invited were the assessors (some of whom were unable to attend 😞) for the activities she chose and some close friends. I presented her with her badge, certificate and Silver record book and wished her every success for the next step. A photo album of her Journey of Discovery was passed round and I was extremely impressed with her time aboard the Tenacious – a tall ship giving opportunities to disabled people and their carers. It was plain to see that she thoroughly enjoyed her trip and I was more than happy to see what the Discovery Award has meant for her. Well done Caroline!
In closing, I wish you all fun in your activities and hope that we can achieve what we set out to do.
Best wishes
Colin
St Leonard’s Share
My activity to date.
I’ve got six members woohoo
Exercise
Chest press
Churpees staged
burpee
Huld holding up the wall
Exercise
Met with Gavin
I’m going to be making up a survey to start with.
A photo of Myself and Gavin both smiling
Exercise with Nicky
Squats 2 blocks 10×20 free
1 block 10×20
Rows 10x10kg x2
Today with Ronnie
I did rows x 2×10
squants. 3×10
So last night I got my bronze discovery award
Huld
Barnardo’s
Working with Leam who is a delight to work with. Sold about £40 pounds worth of books. Took in lots of donations! Did gift aid twice.
Article
Discovery Award
This is me!
Bronze
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Nicky, Sharon and Helen who also helped with my exercises. Huld my personal trainer for all his positive encouragement. Barnardo’s staff Derek and Liam who are fabulous. Alison who helped me with my blogging. All my friends who have been with me every step of the way.
A very big thankyou
Hobby
My hobby has been my blog. Which at the time was a bit of a pain. Looking back it has been a very good way of recording everything that I have done. I can definitely see progression which I m not sure would have been obvious if I hadn’t done the blog.
I have had a great year achieving all these different things. I have really enjoyed myself.
Bring on the silver!
Huld
I’m delighted with my progress if a bit knackered.
I’ve throughly enjoyed working with Huld, looking forward to doing more!