I remember as a child being delivered milk in glass bottles by a nice milkman called Barry. Aside from the immense satisfaction of popping the foil cap with my thumb and pouring the clot of cream over my cereal, the whole process seemed normal - as anything would if you hadn't known any different. Alas, it wasn't long before Barry the milkman was kicked in the shins by a large supermarket that opened in a nearby town. Within a week our quaint glass bottles were replaced by juggernaut HDPE 6 pinters purchased along with the weekly shop. My Mum wasn't solely to blame for Barry's demise, arguably it was a rational decision she made; it was easier and cheaper.

In the end, temptation got the better of me. It begs the question: is it possible to avoid deploying a pun when writing about the Isles of Scilly? Anyway, moving on. We’ve recently had the privilege of working on a series film projects on the Isles of Scilly (I.O.S) - a small group of islands 28 miles from the mainland.

The chances are, if you're reading this blog on the Nice and Serious website, you're probably partial to a little bit of environmentalism. Perhaps you're employed in the burgeoning environmental sector? Or perhaps you're stuck in an unfulfilling job seeking to pass the time by reading light-hearted, green-tinged entertainment?? If you are the latter of the two, we would recommend a little website that we stumbled across recently. It's a smart new site called www.sustainable-jobs.com that amalgamates all of the job feeds from the top sustainability job sites. Very simple, but worth a look if you are job hunting in this area.

I had a dilemma: I had professed to being a master re-user, yet I liked owning new things - especially books. Perhaps it was their crisp virgin sheets, yet to be parted by the grubby mitts of others; their uncreased spine or their distinctly new smell.

Yet books, as commodities go, are incredibly easy to reuse. Transferring a good book to a friend is not only a great way of sharing stories, but is essentially an act of reusing - nestled second in the recycling hierarchy (under reduction and above recycling). Your friend needn't buy a new book: tress remain firmly rooted. So back to my dilemma...I had a choice: do I act on my new-book fetish and start sharing? Or do I turn a blind eye to my problem and surrender to my high-carbon vice?