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A few of my favourite things
12 December 201912 December 2019 Janette Bennett

A few of my favourite things

Environment, Sustainable living, Technology, Work-life

My most favourite things right now are a small inverter, two water tanks and a sense of humour. It’s been hard to keep the latter when the foremost givens – access to clean piped water and a reliable electricity supply

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I’m planting trees. Are you?
5 December 20196 December 2019 Janette Bennett

I’m planting trees. Are you?

Environment, Technology, Trees, Work-life

Every single time I do an Internet search, I am planting trees. Yes, you read that correctly. And you might have noticed that I did not say, “Every time I Google.” That’s because I changed my Internet browser from Google

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Let there be light (and TV)
2 August 201224 November 2019 Under the milkwood

Let there be light (and TV)

Technology, Work-life

Wrapped up in a fluffy blue blanket, I am shivering behind the wheel of my stationary car. It’s night time, somewhere in the middle of a 40-hour power outage, and I am listening to my car radio. It’s the only

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Power to you
4 June 20128 January 2020 Under the milkwood

Power to you

Life, Reinvention, Technology, Work-life

When my children were very little people, they asked me if I’d been “alive when the dinosaurs were alive”. When I stopped laughing long enough to answer them, they declared with certainty that it was their granny, my mother, who’d

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Autumn in the global village
5 May 201224 November 2019 Under the milkwood

Autumn in the global village

Garden, Technology, Writing

Today, we all live in the “global village” that Canadian professor Marshall McLuhan first spoke about in the ’60s. That’s why people like me can work from remote places like this for people anywhere. In this world made small by

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Inside the storm
28 March 201224 November 2019 Under the milkwood

Inside the storm

Technology, Weather, Wild things

Living here, on the south-eastern edge of South Africa, we experience some really wild weather. I once watched a black thing ooze over the sea from the west; it took about 10 minutes to reach us, and it was vicious.

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