Ever feel like you’re not making much headway? The odds are stacked against you? Everybody you know is swimming in the opposite direction and even staying in the same place is hard?

That’s where I find myself this week.

There is a great deal of resistance to change. Not hostile resistance. More like wading through the mud in your wellies and they keep coming off! Tiring, time consuming, small progress for the effort you are investing.

So, what do you do when the journey is taking a few unexpected twists and turns and there are frequent unscheduled stops?

You get yourself some inspiration of course!

Here are three things that have got me smiling again. I hope you find the articles helpful too.

• Surfers against sewage – Plastic free communities. Look at their interactive map to find plastic free communities near you. I found out about this campaign from BBC Gardeners World when they visited a plant nursery working hard to be plastic free in Faversham, Kent – a certified plastic free town.
• Hugh’s War on Waste – new BBC documentary that I have just seen the trailer for this week. It has ordinary families trying to reduce or looks at how residents in an ordinary street reduce their waste with Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s (River Cottage) help. Can’t wait to watch this and learn some new tips.
• Lastly I have been searching for veggie and vegan family friendly cookbooks in our local library and found this one. Very Veggie Family Cookbook by Sara Ask & Lisa Bjarbo, published in 2015 by Pavillion Books. I love the style, the recipes look like food my kids might actually eat and there are loads of tips. fingers crossed for this weeks veggie meal.

Going plastic free isn’t easy but reducing your plastic waste is. Lets all double our efforts this week – have a happy plastic free day. xx