I love being woken in the morning by the dawn chorus. I do not like to be woken by a chorus of dogs! Somehow it doesn’t have the same musical quality.
It’s now 10am, and the little bastards are still at it. I have dogs in home theatre, one on each side, and the main barkers in the park.
It’s enough to make a saint swear.
Last Saturday my two students, who are brothers, brought me a present. it was their last lesson for two months. They brought me a half dozen farm fresh eggs. Now that doesn’t sound like much, does it? But it was a marvelous present, absolutely wnderful and welcome
50 Shades of Yellow
I had bacon and eggs for breakfast two days in a row.
Talk about 50 Shades of Yellow…
Normally I don’t have access to farm fresh free-range eggs, I have to do with the ones from the botequim (local bar), or the sacolão (fruit & vege shop).
I had forgotten what real eggs looked like.
I had forgotten what real eggs tasted like.
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Just take a look at the difference, it’s unbelievable.
I don’t need to explain which is which, but just look at the insipid yellow, compared with the rich orange/yellow of real eggs.
Oh, bring back the days of real food.
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This week’s CTWW is different, it’s philosophical, most unlike Small’s usual challenges.
This week, imagine what a perfect green life would look like … or perhaps a perfect green world. Write down your ideas and then see if there are any on your list which you can turn into reality.
Think big … think wild … be creative.
I would begin by turning the clock back 50 years.
- Get rid of the dairy companies, go back to farm milk.
- Get rid of battery farming, go back to free range.
- Get rid of the pesticides and herbicides, go back to real (currently called ‘organic’) farming.
- Get rid of plastic, go back to paper, but recycled.
- Get rid of corporations, go back to small business.
- Get rid of artificial foods and additives, go back to the real McCoy.
- Get rid of TV dinner-style foods, go back to the kitchen.
Get rid of canned & frozen foods, go back to preserves in the pantry (larder).
- Get rid of microwaves, go back to real stoves and ovens.
- Get rid of supermarkets and malls, go back to the corner store and butcher.
- Get rid of video games and social networks, go back to talking and playing outside.
- Get rid of concrete jungles, go back to dirt.
- Get rid of fashions, go back to functional clothing.
- Get rid of infant formula, go back to breastfeeding.
- Get rid of Wall Street, go back to honest banking (is that an oxymoron?).
- Get rid of antidepressant medications, go back to getting on with life.
- Get rid of psychologists, go back to dealing with it.
- Get rid of BigPharma, go back to natural remedies.
- Get rid of junk food, go home and eat.
The list could go on and on
Half my list will never happen, because the corporations own the government.
But you can make a difference.
There are small things that I do to make my life better, there are other things that I would do if I was more mobile and had transport, there are things that I would dearly love to do.
How many of you have a bank account? I have one, but by necessity to transfer my modest funds from one country to another. But I don’t have a local bank account. Basically, I don’t trust banks. I get my pay in cash and keep it ‘under the mattrass’. I go and pay my bills personally, I don’t have to go to the bank to get my money.
How many of you grow something for food? I imagine many that read this type of blog do. I live on concrete, but I have a modest garden.
How many of you cook or make preserves? It is rare for me to buy pre-prepared food? How many of you preserve something for later? I currently have beetroot and pickled onions in the fridge.
How many of you have bought fast food in the last week? I haven’t bought fast food in over two years.
Fashion and models as useless as tits on a bull
How many of you buy clothing because it’s fashionable? I buy it because it’s functional.
How many of you Facebook, Pin or Tweet and spend hours doing it. I Tweet, yes, I’m a twit, but for me tweeting is automatic on my blogs, I don’t spend hours wasting my time.
How many of you shop at supermarkets or malls? I do, but only for things that I can’t walk to the store and buy. I much prefer the corner store and grocer.
I do little things, but I yearn for the days when those little things and more were normal everyday things.
I would love to see a world where the useless things like fashion were eliminated; but man is such a vain creature.
How much land is used to grow crops like cotton, how much petroleum is used to make fabrics, how much energy is used in manufacture and transport, how much time is wasted in fashion shows and the ilk, how much press and paper is dedicated to this absolutely despicable aspect of life?
My view is get these skinny, underfed, malnourished creatures off the catwalk and have them tilling the soil, doing something productive, getting their perfectly manicured hands dirty instead of poncing around the fashion world full of their own self importance. These are bludgers on society, the whole industry are leeches. There is nothing at all green about the fashion world, it is a total waste of resources.
The same could be said of many aspects of modern life, I just chose fashion as an example.
We need to become more pragmatic, we need to turn the clock back, we need to think about what we have lost in the name of ‘progress‘.
Eco-Crap 
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