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  • More Plastic-Free Easter Eggs!

    This time it’s from good ole Plamil – and they’re shouting from the rooftops about its plastic-freeness 😀 Of course we wouldn’t be recommending it if it wasn’t also vegan, organic and fair trade, but it is, so we are 😀 We also wouldn’t be recommending it if it wasn’t absolutely scrummy.  And it is…

  • Plastic Free Easter Eggs

    Here is a scrummy Easter Egg which ticks all the right boxes: VEGAN ORGANIC FAIR TRADE And it’s not wrapped in plastic!!! 😀 Just a cardboard box with a delicious, foil-wrapped, chocolate egg inside.  Remember when they were all like that?  Not so long ago. It just goes to show, there’s no need to contaminate…

  • Easy Gluten-Free Flatbread

    This is so easy and absolutely delicious 😀 No fat, no yeast, no gluten and no frying.  Just oats and water.  Baked. You’ll need: 8 oz rolled oats 400 ml of water parchment paper to line your baking trays so that you don’t need to oil them. ** For garlic bread version see bottom of…

  • Plastic Free Crisps!!!

    For anyone determined to avoid plastic, non-essentials like crisps are the first to go.  But now thanks to Walkers, they don’t have to be! Walkers have brought out cardboard tubes of crisps without even a plastic lid!  The top is cardboard which is easy to peel off, so absolutely no plastic required. So, when you’re…

  • Plastic Avoidance: Part 7

    Zero Waste Club Remember I wrote in my earlier plastic avoidance posts that it was impossible, in my experience, to get organic stuff (like sugar, lentils, dried fruit, nuts, pasta etc etc) that wasn’t wrapped in plastic?  Remember I said that we’d decided we had to prioritise plastic avoidance even if that meant having to…

  • Clever naughty boy

    When reading an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics, Advances in neuroscience imply that harmful experiments in dogs are unethical, by Jarrod Bailey and Shiranee Pereira, I was reminded of our George.  The Open Access article explains that “Functional MRI (fMRI) of fully awake and unrestrained dog ‘volunteers’ has been proven an effective tool to…

  • 40 year old vegan

    Filmed at Wishing Well Sanctuary, Bradford, Ont. L3Z 3L3 For more great vegan music check out the Music Page 😀 and please let us know of any more good vegan songs 🙂

  • Listening to the mouse in the wall

    I lay in bed listening To the mouse in the wall. He doesn’t know I’m here, I think I’ll call him Paul. **** He always comes at bedtime To find his winter stash. He must be very hungry, Scratch and scrape and bang and bash. It sounds just like marbles That he rolls above my…

  • Why must we eat the animals?

    I love this song, and we just saw the lead vocalist in Ghost Whisperer!!! (Season 2, episode 2).  Greg Cipes is an actor, musician and professional surfer – now there’s a vegan who lives life to the full! 😀 For more great vegan music go to the Music Page 😀

  • Vegan Style

    Check out the Music Page for more great vegan music and let us know of any good stuff we’ve missed 😀

  • Plastic Avoidance: Part 6

    Toiletries Update 23.11.21: You can get vegan plastic-free toothpaste, mouthwash, floss, toothbrushes – everything your teeth could ever need from Georganics, including cardboard-packaged tooth soap and refills. Check it out! 😀 Toothbrushes According to the Australian Environmental Toothbrush website, over 30 million toothbrushes are used and disposed of by Australians annually, amounting to approximately 1000 tonnes of…

  • Plastic Avoidance: Part 5

    Other things for cleanliness It’s not difficult to buy recycled toilet roll and kitchen roll, but getting it without plastic wrapping is impossible.  Or so I thought until I opened a wonderful Christmas gift from Miranda – toilet rolls: 100% recycled paper wrapped in nothing but 100% recycled paper!  (She discovered them thanks to a…

  • Plastic Avoidance: Part 4

    Personal and domestic hygiene Soapnuts are fantastic! You can find out all about soapnuts here 🙂 We love ’em and have used them for years.  We started using them as a laundry detergent, as directed by the vendors at Living Naturally (soapnuts.co.uk) but soon found they could serve all our soap needs.  We now use…

  • Plastic Avoidance: Part 3

    Real Food Once you’ve accepted that you can’t always get organic, it’s not difficult to avoid plastic.  If you can’t find enough loose produce at your usual supermarket, find out if there’s a good old fashioned market in your town.  We’ve found one which is just a big fruit and veg stall in the town…

  • Plastic Avoidance: Part Two

    Update 23.11.21: You can now buy Vego hazelnut chocolate bars (yum yum yum) in compostable wrappers: And Plamil Cocoa Bites – chocolate chunks (yummy yummy) in paper bags: Sweet Treats Doing without plastic doesn’t have to mean doing without. Let’s get our priorities straight and start with chocolate 😀 The chocolates pictured above tick all…

  • Plastic Avoidance: Part One

    We have for many years tried to keep our plastic consumption to a minimum but have found it very difficult when also trying to incorporate other ethics into our shopping habits.  For example – it’s pretty easy to buy loose, unpackaged fruit and vegetables if you take your own bags to the market with you,…

  • Plastic’s Not Fantastic

    You know plastic’s not fantastic And it might seem rather drastic But the obvious solution Is a New Year’s resolution To give unfantastic plastic the heave-ho. So that’s what we’ve decided, We’re determined to be guided By the needs of Earth and Earthlings To be free of all plastic things, So to all new things…

  • Good instincts

    For all the Luke Walker chapters click here 🙂 Chapter 16 continues from yesterday: Mum opened the bedroom door. “Luke, don’t you want to help decorate the tree?” “erm, no thanks,” he said without looking at her. “Are you okay?” “Yeah.” “Are you sure?  You haven’t been yourself since we went to the Maybury Centre.” Luke didn’t…

  • A penchant for wandering off

    For all the Luke Walker chapters click here 🙂 Chapter 16 continues from yesterday: “Luke!  There you are!” called Mum, “you do have a penchant for wandering off.” Luke had no idea what a ponshon was but decided to take her word for it. “Look what I’ve got!” she said.  She sounded excited.  “I won it!  Well,…

  • Looking for a squashed cupcake

    For all the Luke Walker chapters click here 🙂 Chapter 16 continues from yesterday: When he got to the cafe he decided to pop in.  He knew that 87p wouldn’t ordinarily get him a cupcake but, since the end of the day was approaching, they might have made them half price.  Or maybe there was a squashed…

  • The beginning of the end

    For all the Luke Walker chapters click here 🙂 And here is the beginning of Chapter 16, the final chapter of the second book, More Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er:  Luke Walker and the Maybury Christmas Fayre Luke reached for it at the exact same time as Jared.  They scowled at each other. “Let me have…

  • The Christmas Market

    For all the Luke Walker chapters click here 🙂 Chapter 15, the denouement : At ten forty-five on Tuesday morning, Luke and Joe climbed aboard the school minibus and grabbed two of the back seats.  Tania and Isabel grabbed the other two. “This should be good,” said Isabel. “Yeah, I need to get something for my mum…

  • Everything was tidy except Mr Beardsley’s desk

    For all the Luke Walker chapters click here 🙂 Chapter 15 continues from yesterday: The chairs were turned upside down on the desks; the bins were empty and the paint pots were washed up and stacked on the draining board.  Everything except Mr Beardsley’s desk was swept and dusted and tidy. Mr Beardsley’s desk was always a…

  • Luke, it’s your line!

    For all the Luke Walker chapters click here 🙂 Are you sitting comfortably?  Then we will begin chapter 15: Luke Walker and the school play “I am here today …” “Tonight.” “I am here tonight to warn you, that you ‘ave yet a chance and hope of escapin’ my fate. A chance and hope of my procturin’,…

  • Easy for seasoned outlaws

    To read the rest of the Luke Walker stories, click here 😀 Chapter 14 continues from yesterday: A noisy, activity-filled party with only two adults in attendance was easy to sneak away from.  It hadn’t even been difficult to get the matches from Mr Beardsley’s desk drawer.  Fortunately there had been no rain for a couple of weeks…

  • They’re not Halloween!

    To read the rest of the Luke Walker stories, click here 😀 Chapter 14 continues from yesterday: “Hey!  They can’t have them on Halloween!  Who brought them?” he asked, pointing with disgust at the flesh food and surveying the faces around the table. “What’s wrong?” asked Isabel. Luke didn’t hear her.  He angrily snatched the plate from…

  • Changing the subject

    To read the rest of the Luke Walker stories, click here 😀 Chapter 14 continues from yesterday: Luke decided to change the subject. “Where shall we put these then?” he asked. “Not here,” said Mr Beardsley, “or they might get eaten.  Put them on my desk behind the screen.” The boys did as they were told and…

  • Not Mr Darcy

    To read the rest of the Luke Walker stories, click here 😀 Chapter 14 continues from yesterday: “Not Mr Darcy!  Mr Wilberforce!” Luke insisted.  “I don’t want to look like some posh bloke from Priden Precipice!” Mrs Walker pulled the black trousers, white ruffled shirt and long black coat from The Village Players’ costume trunk.…

  • Not even pretending to listen

    For all the Luke Walker chapters so far click here 😀 Here begins Chapter 14: Luke Walker and the Halloween Party Luke, Joe, Isabel and Tania looked at the circle and gasped.  They hadn’t believed it could happen.  Now that it had, they were scared. “That’s it then,” said Luke eventually, “I’ll prob’ly be dead by Christmas.”…

  • In the Sunday School room …

    For all the Luke Walker chapters click here 😀 To read the whole of Chapter 13 click here 🙂 Story continues from yesterday: In the Sunday School room Luke was unsurprised to find quaint and colourful cardboard fishing boats stuck to a massive collage that covered a whole wall.  The boats were manned by friendly fishermen pulling up nets…

  • Dangerous things

    For all the Luke Walker chapters click here 😀 To read the whole of Chapter 13 click here 🙂 Story continues from yesterday: At 3.47pm Luke and Joe stood in Curly and Squirt’s shed.  There was a big old wooden ottoman at the back.  Joe had never noticed it before because ordinarily Luke kept a bale of hay on…

  • Luke could hardly believe it

    For all the Luke Walker chapters click here 😀 To read the whole of Chapter 13 click here 🙂  Story continues from yesterday: “What?!”  Luke could hardly believe it.  “They’re proud of killin’ sea animals are they?  They want to show off about killin’ God’s creatures do they?  That’s very Christian – I don’t think!” “Well, Luke,” Mum…

  • And then what happened?

    For all the Luke Walker chapters click here 😀 Chapter 13: Luke Walker and the Harvest Festival begins here: “And then what happened?  Luke?” “Erm,” “Weren’t you listening?  What happened in the end?” “Oh, um, in the end she saved ’em all, and then they saw she was a girl, coz they thought she was a man…

  • A wink and a smile

    For all the Luke Walker chapters click here For the whole of chapter 12 click here 🙂 Story continues from Friday: At half past three, all the Year Fives who wanted to be in the Christmas concert went to the hall to audition for Ms Robinson and Mr Beardsley.  There were more parts available than actors…

  • Unprepared

    For all the Luke Walker stories so far click here 🙂 Chapter 12 continues from yesterday: ******* They weren’t prepared for what they found.  Parked in the field, alongside the still confined sheep, was a double decker lorry. The top deck was already full of sheep.  The farmer was there, with his dogs, talking to the lorry driver. …

  • A brilliant plan

    For all the Luke Walker stories so far click here 🙂 Chapter 12 continues from yesterday: ******* On their way home from school Luke and Joe discussed the Christmas concert. “I don’t wanna be in it,” said Joe. “You could just ‘ave a small part,” Luke suggested, “then we’d be together.” “Oh yeah,” said Joe, but his heart…

  • Make sure no one’s watching

    For all the Luke Walker stories so far click here 🙂 Chapter 12 continues from yesterday: ******* When they got to the bus stop they stood under the shelter and looked carefully in every direction to make sure no one was watching.  Then they hurried across the road and emptied their bags into the muddy paddock.  The sheep…

  • Some calls may be recorded

    For all the Luke Walker stories so far click here 🙂 Chapter 12 continues from yesterday: ******* “Oh no!  He prob’ly dint tell no one he’d locked the sheep up without food ‘n’ water, and if he’s dead, no one’ll know they’re here, and they’ll starve to death!”  His eyes were wide with alarm. “Call the RSPCA!” said…

  • At the end of the day …

    For all the Luke Walker stories so far click here 🙂 Chapter 12 continues from last Friday: ******* At the end of the day Luke couldn’t find Joe so he walked home alone feeling very sorry for himself.  Then he saw something which took his mind off it.  Across the road sheep were being rounded up with two…

  • Not in Mrs Tebbut’s class anymore

    For all the Luke Walker stories so far click here 🙂 Chapter 12 continues from yesterday: ******* Tuesday came around as it was bound to, and Luke found himself back at school.  He was predictably annoyed about it but took solace in the fact that at least he wasn’t in Mrs Tebbut’s class anymore. Everyone knew Ms Robinson was…

  • Tuvok knows best

    For all the Luke Walker stories so far click here 🙂 Chapter Twelve begins here: Luke Walker and the new teacher “Search everyone’s quarters on decks five to seven.” “It’s nillogical to search deck six …” “No, you don’t say that.” “Why not?” “Coz you’re Tom Paris.” “Paris knows when things aren’t logical.” “No he doesn’t.  Paris…

  • “Quickly! Before they see you!”

    For all the Luke Walker stories so far click here 🙂 For the whole of Chapter 11 click here 🙂 Chapter 11 continued from yesterday: The police car was between him and the officers so he kept his head down and crept up to the rear door. He tried the handle.  Nothing happened.  He tried it again.  It…

  • Panic and retreat

    For the stories so far click here 🙂 Chapter 11 continued from yesterday: Luke stood still, his face flushed hot. “They know!” he thought with horror. It got worse.  He watched as two police officers walked up to the organisers’ table.  After a few moments a man there pointed in Luke’s direction.  The police officers started to…

  • Strong and determined

    For the stories so far click here 🙂 Chapter 11 continued from Friday: With a wheelbarrow full of three different leaflets which told the truth about the dairy industry, Luke headed for the car park.  The wheelbarrow was heavy and the cars were parked quite close together on uneven ground, so it was rather difficult to stop…

  • Way of the world

    For chapters 1 to 10 click here 🙂 Chapter 11 continued from yesterday: He smiled broadly as he considered how fortuitous this outing had turned out to be; how lucky it was that this week of all weeks he’d needed a wheelbarrow. *** Nan and Grandad loved to go to car boot sales, antique fairs and flea…

  • And here begins chapter 11: Luke Walker and the ice cream van

    For chapters 1 to 10 click here 🙂 Luke Walker and the ice cream van Set apart from the rest of the flea market was a stall that was of great interest to Luke.  Standing behind it was a lady wearing black eye shadow and black nail varnish.  She had long, straight, jet black hair and her…

  • The lentil hotpot gambit and other clever tricks

    For the whole story click here 🙂 The conclusion of Chapter Ten: For dinner his mum had cooked lamb chops.  After getting to know Curly and Squirt, Joe couldn’t bring himself to actually bite into one but when no one was looking he cut a piece off and hid it in his pocket. Then he…

  • Back to the drawing board

    For the whole of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er, Chapter Ten click here 🙂 Chapter 10 continued from yesterday: “But what will I eat today?” he asked, disheartened. Luke was busy thinking. “What?  Oh, you can share mine,” he said generously, and they continued on to school. As luck would have it they wouldn’t…

  • Feigning self-sacrifice

    Chapter ten continues 🙂 ************************************ Dinner was almost over and Jared was helping Mum clear the table. “Hurry up Luke,” Jared was impatient to get to Youth Club and wasn’t allowed to go until he’d done the washing up. “You want me to get indigestion I suppose!” said Luke, not really surprised that his brother…

  • Chapter Ten starts here: Luke Walker and the allergic reactions

    For the stories so far click here 🙂 Chapter Ten: Luke Walker and the allergic reactions Luke was hesitant. If he made a mistake now it could cost him the game.  Janeway was a good card. She had a lot of Starfleet Authority and was also very cunning.  But which to choose, that was the…