You've got nail

Nicola & Pete plus daughters Lola, now 9 and Nell, now 7, spent last year exploring Britain in a carbon-light manner. Our spring 2008 challenge is to give up waste from 24 March to 24 April. Most posts are by Nicola (as it was her silly idea). This is how it’s going:

I know how easy it is to forget New Year’s resolutions, promises, new year/new you life changes etc, so decided the A-Z No waste month was in danger from the moment we woke up on 24 March 2008. As all we are trying to do this month is change a few ingrained habits my hunch is that the way to prevent anyone forgetting is to slap on make-up. Well, a dob of nail varnish on everyone’s little finger.

Nail varnish marks us out, perhaps, but acts as a good reminder for me; incentive for the girls who love having a painted nail each (in fact they want more!) and a menacing concern to Pete who fears if we get it wrong he’s going to acquire a few more painted nails as he sleeps…

Verdict: at least this will give me the opportunity to use up leftover dregs of nail varnish (usually rejected because of their harmful environmental impact).