Time flies like an arrow… fruit flies like a banana

Time flies like an arrow… fruit flies like a banana

It’s an old joke, a play on words based on the Latin expression ‘tempus fugit’, meaning ‘time flies’ and the attraction of the fruit fly, or Drosophila melanogaster, to bananas, the edible herb, Latin name Musaacuminata. Having just read all that, you’re probably...
Office Trends

Office Trends

While we don’t claim to have a unique perspective, the fact that we visit so many workplaces in all sorts of industries, we certainly do have a very good overview of ‘what’s new in ’22’. The word we hear over and over again is sustainability, and we could not be...
A View from The Marsh

A View from The Marsh

Every day is a school day #485, Woodpeckers For the past couple of weeks, we have been hearing the gentle, rhythmic tapping of a woodpecker in the coppice directly behind the Green Team Interiors HQ, here in beautiful Hampshire. Obviously, it’s one of those ‘first...
International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day

This year’s International Women’s Day theme is Break the Bias, and here at Green Team Interiors we are delighted and proud to show our support. Imagining a gender equal world really isn’t that difficult, perhaps the hardest part is thinking about why it doesn’t...
The Poetry of Plants

The Poetry of Plants

In his poem ‘Chainsaw versus the Pampas Grass’ our Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage tells the tale of a man, as the title of the poem suggests, using a chainsaw to cut down pampas grass. The brutal machine making short work of the delicate grass before being returned to...
Fifty Shades of Brown

Fifty Shades of Brown

Hooray for January There is a temptation to dismiss the early months of the new year as dull, grey or even depressing. Christmas is behind us, for many it’s a return to work and then just when they are least welcome, the credit card bills arrive and hit us in the...