Making us think

We received an energy-saving monitor recently. It's a fabulous little gadget. Plug it in and connect it with your electricity meter and it tells you exactly how much electricity you're using at any one time, along with how much that's costing you. Switch on or off an electrical device like a light or the computer and you can immediately see the impact. Scary stuff!

It's certainly made us think more about how we use things round the house. It's so easy to leave a computer whirring away whilst going to collect the kids, or keep the television on standby instead of switching it off completely.

Of course, it's not just the impact on our own finances - though that's scary enough. Being lazy with our electricity usage means a larger carbon footprint and less resources to share with our world's poorer nations.

It's interesting how sometimes things happen to make us sit up and think. Maybe the comment of a friend, an item in a newspaper, a fascinating book, film or programme. And suddenly we can find we do things just slightly differently.

How fabulous that we have numerous opportunities in our lives to just do things a little differently or better.

I wonder what's made you think this week?