Here's a quick snapshot of the weather in Brighton yesterday: morning sunny, mid morning overcast and windy, afternoon cold and windy, evening rainy.
I've just been sent a link to the Met Office blog, and I looked at it because I'm wondering, along with the rest of the UK, whether we're going to have a great sun-filled summer this year, or... Another wet summer? UK weather explained…
Here's a quick snapshot of the weather in Brighton yesterday: morning sunny, mid morning overcast and windy, afternoon cold and windy, evening rainy.
I've just been sent a link to the Met Office blog, and I looked at it because I'm wondering, along with the rest of the UK, whether we're going to have a great sun-filled summer this year, or... 
Despite rising energy costs, we Brits do like to put the heating on. A recent YouGov survey* showed that more than half of us had put the heating on in our homes this September.
Apparently, whether or not to have the heating on between May and October... 
It's been chucking it down with rain in the UK these last few weeks. Ironically it doesn't seem to have stopped since the water companies imposed hosepipe bans at the start of April.
The water shortage won't be cured by this rain, but isn't the hosepipe ban a bit silly? It doesn't stop anyone using bucket loads of water, or flushing the toilet a lot... 
Businesses in the UK are more worried about energy costs and supply than health and safety, legislation, and security, according to the npower Business Energy Index, published 18 July 2011.
The same report also found that one in six businesses do not have a plan for coping with increased energy prices, or for meeting reduced carbon emission targets.
Planning for future risks take time and man hours away from "business as usual", and as a small business owner myself, I know how stretched resources can be. 
We're all talking about saving energy these days, and it's getting easier and easier to start generating your own electricity in your own home. We asked Chris from moneysupermarket.com for a bit more information on what you can do to go green. 
I'm not a Christian, but I'm using the period of Lent as a way to be even more mindful of my energy consumption, and to think of ways to reduce it further - I'm putting myself on a carbon fast.
Do The Green Thing have an excellent competition on their blog where you can vote for your favourite out of four innovative new products, all designed to help save energy and reduce waste. 
It's 5am and I'm walking to work (don't ask). It's a 15 minute walk. It's still dark, and I notice that perhaps 40% of shops have lights on, including a local Iceland that has all it's lights on.
And I'm thinking, if my local streets are representative of the whole country, then £millions worth of energy and CO2 is being wasted lighting shops when no one is there, and no one is shopping or even looking through the window