Product Description

Why is there a hippo in Pete May's cistern, you might well ask.

Back in the nineties, Pete May was busy watching football and drinking beer. He was quite happy surrounding himself with countless pizza boxes, beer cans and other environmentally unfriendly comsumer stuff.

Then along came Nicola - an environmental activist intent on saving rainforests. Pete, surprised to find himself drawn to someone so far removed from his planet-killing laddish lifestyle, began to wonder whether two people so different could really fall for each other?

Would Pete change his ways and sign up to the green lifestyle of composting loos, chicken rearing, energy saving and general self-suffciency? Would he ever get to grips with devices called Hippos that he found himself dunking in his cistern to save water when flsuhing?

This is the charming and funny true-life tale of one man's struggle to grapple with the good life, go green and get the girl.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #87187 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-02
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Synopsis
The hilarious true-life tale of one man's journey from self-confessed planet-killing lad to eco-friendly, green-crusader Dad set against the backdrop of Cool Britannia, Blair's Britain and the rise of the green movement. Back in the nineties, Loaded journalist, Pete May was your normal twenty-something male: a football mad, beer guzzling, Dr Who watching lad's lad, quite happy surrounding himself with countless pizza boxes, beer cans and other environmentally unfriendly consumer items. Recycling to Pete was a debate about whether he should turn his socks inside out and reuse them. Then one day, out of nowhere, along came eco bunny Nicola -- a greener than green environmental activist. Could two people so different really fall for each other? Would Pete ever change his ways and sign up to the green lifestyle of composting loos, freezing cold houses, multiple jumper wearing, chicken rearing, recycling, cycling, energy saving and general self-sufficiency? This is the charming and funny true-life tale of one man's struggle to grapple with the good life, go green and get the girl.

Customer Reviews

Just couldn't put it down
Pete has a great skill at story telling and moving easily from one subject to another in a way that made me sit up at night, eyes almost closing but saying to myself, 'just one more chapter'.

Very enjoyable, especially as i could relate to the memories of those cold evenings when I've sat in a flat with old sash windows allowing a gale to blow through the lounge.

It also made me want to go on holiday more in the UK!

Hippo in my Cistern
A really good read. I read it very quickly and chuckled throughout. He has a great way with words and his story will probably strike a chord with 40-somethings all over England.

The best bit is it's true!
As well as falling about with laughter at Pete May's account of "greening up", it was a great excuse to reminisce about the good times and the bad through the 90s until the modern day.

I laughed my way through the whole book. Thank you. It was a brilliant read!