Dinner Party R.I.P.

There's an environmental story nearly every day in the papers and I fear the new inconvient truth is that all this doomsday messaging is producing new kind of everyday 'eco-warrior'.

Yes, you know the ones.

You thought tailoring a dinner party was hard enough with all the protein-only, gluten free, organic vegans around - now there's also the ones who'll be looking out for energy efficient light globes, checking cupboards for green calico grocery bags and consuming our polenta-filled heads with talk of bio-diesel, waste water recycling, sustainable solutions and how the energy companies aren't really selling efficient products.

And it's when I'm sitting at another one of these fearful conversations that I silently cry, "God help us!"