Helen Taylor

I buy organic food whenever I can, cook everything from scratch, have sold the tumble dryer, grow food in my yard, hope for an allotment, have kept chickens and will again.  I have three children, live in an ex-mining village in Co Durham and we have no CH or hot water except the shower.  We are owned by a cat, and have two demanding dogs.  We still manage to have a great life.

I use the bus, don't have a car, I sacked it in summer 2010.  I shop with my own bags, have all the food delivered to the door, use night-time electricity and I'm currently adjusting to live with a huge washing machine that means my washing load is now two loads rather than six.  Actually too large to fit on the washing line in the yard!

I am at war with nits (losing) and the lazy profligate people who live in this village who use their cars to drive half way across it several times a day (ongoing, hopeful).

I'm a moderator on The Green Living Forum which had it's inception as The It's Not Easy Being Green forum, born from the TV programme of the same name.  We have over 5 thousand members, and always have a warm welcome for more.

I don't do twitter or facebook, sorry.  Or rather do have a twitter account but forget to.  Twitter, that is.