Lemony| Solaris | Bags | Hydra

Sam Sustainable is known to his friends as "Bags". Not because of the ones under his eyes, or even the ones over his belt, but because he is never to be seen without one. His wife Lemony calls them his cotton briefcases, but Bags just calls them practical. A bit of a collector, Bags has cotton carry bags from around the world. His favourite one is made from old Tea sacks. The smell he says is just like a good cup of billy tea in the bush by a stream with your socks off.

Bags is also a collector of stories and little tidbits of information that are really useful on those trivia nights at the local pub. If you ever get caught standing by the tomato stand in the local fruit shop, you are sure to be told how to choose the ripest tomatoes. Bags reckons that you need to touch and smell them, and that if nature had wanted us to put them in into little separated transparent bags, they would have made the spiders spin webs out of plastic, instead of silk, which is a really wonderful material, makes strosng carry bags and looks real good on his wife Lemony.

Lemony likes to tell people that her Aunt Dorrie Reek was more right than she knew when she said "Lemony Reek , that boy is a keeper, you hold on to him tight" . Sam Sustainable was a keeper all right, a keeper of things!. Bags likes to recycle things into unexpected delights, "you've only got what you've got in life ,so you've got to use it all." Of course this means that he has a lot of stuff. But it is all to make the world a better place for his beloved family, and who wouldn't be delighted with a macramé crotched picnic rug made out of used plastic bags, easy to clean when those drinks spill ,light as a feather and compact enough to fit in your back pocket.

Bags is downright fascinated with nature, and he has the highest respect for his worms in his compost. To him they are his guru and he is the humble apprentice. His daily lessons are discovered as he empties the kitchen and certain household scraps into his compost each night. In the worms he finds a profound learning about just how simple life should be. You take the good and bad and rotten and mulch it over for a bit and turn it into something good.. That's how Bags thinks you should live your life. Yep, those worms can tell us a thing or two..if only he knew which end was the head, he would kiss them all goodnight as well.