02-17-2018, 11:25 AM
Morrison's home grocery delivery now have a good plan. It would be nice if other stores did this too. You receive your shopping (ordered online and delivered) in plastic bags. When the driver has gone you unpack your shopping and save the plastic bags for the next delivery when you give them back and you get 99p off the cost of your shopping. That's a real incentive for people to keep the bags and not dump them or use them unwisely, such as throwing them out of cars in the countryside! So thumbs up Morrison's for that idea.
Using cars unnecessarily....oh dear, there is a lot of it goes on in my own area (in UK) The log-jam of cars -most of them gas-guzzlers -outside the village school at 3.30 pm has to be seen to be believed.
So I actually asked one woman why she has a HUGE people-carrier vehicle...and she told me it is because she "has to take the kids to and from school". I find out she only lives a mile and a half away.
I used to walk one mile to my junior school, then back a mile at lunchtime, then back again, then home at night. That was 4 miles a day in all weather. It did me no harm at all, and allowed me to socialise with other children out of school, and to drop in at the sweet shop whenever I had sixpence to spend!
I am dismayed that many people comment on my 1/4 mile walk to visit a neighbour's cat twice a day! They sometimes offer me a lift! How kind and I always thank them, but ....really?...for a quarter mile? That isn't a long enough walk to even warm up my toes in the morning!
Most people are starting to look on walking as a regular thing as being "very brave" or "slightly odd". That is in my own area. A water worker I encountered fixing a leak one night said "I had some guts"....to walk down the lane for 1/4 mile when it was raining......(?)
What is happening to us as a species?
We are designed to walk. And plastic bags are designed to be exchanged for free delivery on online orders!
Using cars unnecessarily....oh dear, there is a lot of it goes on in my own area (in UK) The log-jam of cars -most of them gas-guzzlers -outside the village school at 3.30 pm has to be seen to be believed.
So I actually asked one woman why she has a HUGE people-carrier vehicle...and she told me it is because she "has to take the kids to and from school". I find out she only lives a mile and a half away.
I used to walk one mile to my junior school, then back a mile at lunchtime, then back again, then home at night. That was 4 miles a day in all weather. It did me no harm at all, and allowed me to socialise with other children out of school, and to drop in at the sweet shop whenever I had sixpence to spend!
I am dismayed that many people comment on my 1/4 mile walk to visit a neighbour's cat twice a day! They sometimes offer me a lift! How kind and I always thank them, but ....really?...for a quarter mile? That isn't a long enough walk to even warm up my toes in the morning!
Most people are starting to look on walking as a regular thing as being "very brave" or "slightly odd". That is in my own area. A water worker I encountered fixing a leak one night said "I had some guts"....to walk down the lane for 1/4 mile when it was raining......(?)
What is happening to us as a species?
We are designed to walk. And plastic bags are designed to be exchanged for free delivery on online orders!
