I’m still having to pinch myself a little but I got to spend an hour hanging out and having a chinwag with a past winer of the Great British Bake Off! I met Nancy Birtwhistle, the 2014 winner of my very favourite TV show, virtually, for an event we did together for Glasgow's Aye Write Festival earlier on this year. Nancy has got a book out called Clean and Green, and we were paired up for a talk on Eco Tips for your Home and Family.
I wanted to chat more to Nancy about her book, and about all things 'green cleaning' so I pulled on my big girl pants and plucked up the courage to send her an e-mail after the event inviting her on the podcast.
To my surprise and delight, she said yes!

Now I’m very much not one of life’s clean freaks. I find cleaning thoroughly soul destroying and perhaps because of my lacklustre approach to it, my attempts at home made cleaning products have never been resounding successes.
But Nancy’s approach is really refreshing, and even I have been tempted to have another go, and I was more than a little over-excited to whup up a batch of Nancy’s toilet magic at the weekend and have been delightedly spraying it willy nilly around our looks all this week. It was super easy and seems to be coping with my kids spraying something else willy nilly around our loos well.

I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I enjoyed recording it – do let me know if you’re tempted to have a go at some homemade cleaning products, or if you’re now going to make the switch to an eco version of one your usual products!

As ever, please do leave a rating and review wherever you get your podcasts – it helps it to climb the charts and more importantly boosts my poor fragile ego no end….

Enjoy!

• Nancy Birtwhistle
  - Website
  - Instagram
  - Twitter
  - You Tube
• Wilton reusable piping bags!
• A beginners guide to reusable baby wipes (blog post)
• Peace with the Wild
• Big Green Smile
• Dri-Pak liquid soap 
• The Sustainable(ish) FB group
• The Knackered Mums Eco Club - come and join us for a month of plastic-free(ish) action in July!

• Swap out one regular product for an eco-friendly version and see how you get on!

"Easily the most family friendly way to do your bit"
The Sunday Times