I have spent the last week or so emailing press releases out for the launch of GreenFinder. Although we have been online a few months now we have never got round to launching and since we had the site revamped in December we thought the new year would be a good time to officially launch.

One of the local newspapers was interested in the story, interviewed me over the phone and arranged for a photographer to come and take some pictures.  When the photographer did turn up, he gleefully told me he had a green waterproof in the boot of his car and asked if I had any green wellies I could wear for the photo. Now bearing in mind I had just spent ten minutes straightening my hair and even put some make up on for the occasion I was crestfallen that hundreds of people in Warwick and Leamington would see me promoting my website dressed like this. No offense to people who do wear green wellies and waterproofs but I do find the image quite a stereotyped cliche and yes they are  fine if you work outdoors or in the countryside but I don’t, I run a business from my flat which doesn’t even have a garden!!

To cut along story short the photo was taken of me dressed in my normal work attire sat on my Lakeland compost caddy with my computer on my lap in the cold and rain (so much more natural)  On reflection though I do think it is quite sad that people still have that ‘green welly’ image of people who care about the environment particularly as green issues are in the spotlight alot more now. On a lighter note my friends found the incident highly amusing and although I can see the funny side now, I’d be interested to hear if anyone else has got any stories of peoples misconceptions about us green people. The more ridiculous the better.