Tooting Life – Kitchen table

Tooting has another lovely cafe, this time on Fransiscan Road, on the way to Tooting Bec Common from where we live.  This one has just popped up in the last few weeks, so we took the small boy along to try them out. It was a gorgeous sunny day, and the small boy greeted the [...]

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Transition Town Tooting’s great unleashing!

Last night, Transition Town Tooting was unleashed.  The unleashing point for a transition town can be several months or years after transition activities start, but it marks a point at which the town feels it has gathered sufficient momentum to celebrate.  The town hammers a metaphorical post into the ground which says: here we are, [...]

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The Trashcatchers’ carnival!

When it comes to sustainability, it’s not always easy to get people’s attention.  However if you’ve got a 20ft, animatronic, carrot wielding giant on your side,  it’s hard to be missed.  The Trashcatchers’ carnival blew into Tooting this afternoon in a whirl of colour, sound and excitement. Everything in the carnival had been made out [...]

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Tooting Foodival 2009

Last Sunday saw the second annual Tooting Foodival, arranged by Transition Town Tooting.  TTT aims to “…bring together the people of Tooting and surrounding communities to develop a plan to transition to a life beyond our dependency on oil.” Practically, this means lowering the collective carbon footprint of the town by encouraging greener modes of [...]

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Tooting life – The River Wandle

It is amazing what people do in their spare time.  Dressing in green rubber waders from the waist down, and a Stabilo yellow jacket from the waist up would not be my usual choice of attire on a Sunday afternoon, but this week-end many Wandsworth residents will be trying it for size. The River Wandle [...]

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