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Автор: Pete May
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       For NLB – who changed my climate

      A Hippo is an inflatable plastic bag that is placed inside a toilet’s cistern to conserve water.

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Chapter 5 That’s Yer Allotment

       Chapter 6 Walking Class Hero

       Chapter 7 Green Baby

       Chapter 8 Castaway 2001

       Chapter 9 Lord of the Fruit Flies

       Chapter 10 Greener Than Thou

       Chapter 11 Clucking Hell

       Chapter 12 Reclutter Your Life

       Chapter 13 Indecent Proposal

       Chapter 14 It’s a Nice Day for a Green Wedding

       Postscript The Importance of Being Earnest

       Acknowledgements

       About the Publisher

       Don’t Ever Date an Eco-Bunny

      The last months of 1993 are for me a kind of male nirvana. My short-life flat in Elephant and Castle certainly smells like team spirit. Shin pads drying above the gas fire, footie shorts on the back of the kitchen chair. My ideal weekend starts with Friday night TV and the blokeish repartee of Have I Got News For You and Fantasy Football. Saturday it’s down the Hammers, Match of the Day in the evening and on Sunday, five-a-side beneath the Westway.

      Division One has become the Premiership and Sky has begun to televise live matches on a Sunday, ideal for a post-game pint in the boozer. It is possible to spend an entire weekend watching and playing football. It feels a bit like being Arthur Seaton in Alan Sillitoe’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Arthur couldn’t believe that after post-war austerity he could now drink endless pints of beer and mugs of tea and knock off a married bird; here in Elephant I can’t believe there’s football almost every day on the telly.

      By day I’m ‘Sidelines’, the gossip columnist for Time Out magazine