Tag Archives: vegetarian

NO NETS PLEASE # 1: Fox Cub

By

Click here for Wildlife Aid 🙂

Subscribe to them on youtube to help them help more wildlife 🙂

Who are the Wildlife Aid Foundation?

By

Click here for their website 🙂

Subscribe to them on youtube to help them help more wildlife 🙂

64 minutes later …

By

For the story so far, click here

vegan comic for children

vegan comic for children

vegan comic for children

vegan comic for children

The End ….. for now 😉

The Consequences

By

For the story so far, click here

vegan comic for children

vegan comic for children

To be continued ….

Gasp!

By

For the story so far, click here

vegan comic for children

To be continued ….

Don’t shoot!

By

For the story so far, click here

vegan comic for children

vegan comic for children

To be continued …

Oh no!

By

For the story so far, click here

vegan comic for children

vegan comic for children

vegan comic for children

vegan comic for children

To be continued …

Bert! Julius! What are you doing?!

By

For the story so far click here

vegan comic for children

vegan children's story

vegan children's story

vegan comic for children

To be continued …

Meanwhile ….

By

For the story so far, click here

vegan comic for children

vegan children's story

vegan children's story

vegan children's story

To be continued ….

Pleased to meet you

By

For the story so far, click here

vegan comic for children

vegan comic for children

To be continued ….

Uh oh …

By

For the story so far, click here

vegan comic for children

vegan comic for children

To be continued ….

What’s the rush?

By

For the story so far, click here

vegan comic for children

vegan comic for children

vegan comic for children

vegan comic for children

vegan comic for children

vegan comic for children

To be continued ….

Private Property

By

Reflecto Girl episode 4 continues (see yesterday’s post for the start).  For episodes 1, 2 and 3 go to the 8 years and up shelf 🙂

vegan comic for children

vegan comic for children

To be continued ….

If you go down to the woods today …

By

Guntotin Goodfernuffink

To the tune of Teddy Bears’ Picnic, All together now 😉

If you go down to the woods today

You’d better not take your gun.

If you go down to the woods today

You won’t have your usual fun.

***

For there’s a girl, like no other was

Who’ll follow you there for certain because

Today’s the day Reflecto Girl

Gets some justice!

Reflecto Girl

Reflecto Girl #4: Guntotin Goodfernuffinks coming soon!

If you’ve never met Renée before, check out Reflecto Girl Episode 1, Episode 2 and Episode 3 for the story so far, they’re all on the ‘age 8 and up’ page 😀

Greenpeace Petition

By

This Government is mad!

PLEASE sign the Greenpeace petition here

Thank you 😀

Salad Ballad

By

Hero Dog Saves His friend

By

Steven the Vegan by Dan Bodenstein and Ron Robrahn

By

Steven the Vegan – a picture book by Dan Bodenstein and Ron Robrahn about Steven’s school trip to a farm sanctuary and the questions it naturally inspires from his classmates 😀

V is for Vegan: The ABCs of Being Kind by Ruby Roth

By

Recommended Reading: Ladybird’s Remarkable Relaxation

By

ladybird 1

Here is another lovely yoga book for children from Michael Chissick and Sarah Peacock.  This one is designed to be used by teachers and parents to help children use yoga relaxation to cope with stress, grief, bullying and lack of confidence.

ladybird 1a

The book begins with guidance for teachers and parents, explaining the aims of the book, how children can benefit from and enjoy Ladybird Relaxation and giving advice on how to teach it to children.  Then the story begins.

ladybird 2

Ladybird’s friends are all stressed or unhappy about different things – stress from a heavy workload, bereavement, bullying and feeling they’re rubbish at something.  Ladybird sympathises and tells them she is going to give them a special gift that will help them all.

ladybird 3

ladybird 4

Beautifully illustrated, it is a joy to read and makes you feel more relaxed as you turn the pages 🙂

The final part of the book explains how to teach Ladybird Relaxation including a script to read while using a ladybird puppet or little bell (outlined in the guidance at the beginning) to symbolise the ladybird landing on different children as they relax on their mats with eyes closed.

It sounds really therapeutic and I can’t wait to try it myself.

Available on Amazon here

Recommended Reading: Frog’s Breathtaking Speech

By

frog 1

Frog’s Breathtaking Speech is a gorgeous book for children – and teachers, and parents – to help them cope with tension and stress.

frog 2

Michael Chissick is a children’s yoga teacher and Sarah Peacock is a primary school teacher and they have both found the frog’s story very useful when helping children to relax.

frog 3

This beautifully illustrated story is about a frog who is very sad because he is worried about a speech he has to give at school the next day.  When he explains this to his friends, they all tell him about their own special ways of breathing which release tension and anger and enable them to feel happy and relaxed.

frog 4

frog 5

frog 6

At the beginning of the book there is guidance for teachers on how best to use these techniques to help children and at the end there are simple instructions, accompanied by lovely illustrations, about the yoga postures which accompany each type of breathing.

frog 7

A lovely book.

You can buy it here 😀

And we have a winner!

By

DSCN4087

Thank you to everyone who entered our prize draw to give a home to our cute but nameless bunny.

The winner is Suzie Peron who came up with the name Cornball.

DSCN4088

So let me know your address through our contact form Suzie, Cornball can’t wait to meet you 😀

We Love Potatoes

By

home grown potatoes

We love potatoes!

Steamed, baked, crispy roasted,

Oven chipped or mashed and toasted,

Now that we have grown our own

In muddy plot, quite overgrown,

We get excited, dig deep down

And pull our food out of the ground.

Photo10736

Name the Bunny!

By

rescue rabbit

Rescue rabbits

Rescue rabbits

Lovely rabbits

With natural habits

Need spacious homes

With other rabbits.

If you’ve got love

And space for rabbits,

Don’t pay breeders

Hell no!  Dagnabbit!

So many need homes,

Save rescue rabbits!

At Raystede Animal Welfare Centre in East Sussex they take in around 1500 animals every year who need to be found new homes.  They work hard to make sure that each animal is matched up with the right family to give them the best new chance in life and they provide advice on how to take the best care of the animals.

This is undoubtedly the case for so many animal rescue organisations which is why it’s so important, if we are able to provide a happy home for a companion animal, that we rehome abandoned, neglected, rescued animals rather than buy from breeders and perpetuate the problem.

The chap pictured at the top of this post is, like other rabbits rescued by Raystede, looking for a new home.

He is such a sweetheart and anyone from the UK wishing to adopt him should comment on this post suggesting a name for him.  Then, on Friday, we will put all the suggested names in a box and draw out a winner.  The rescued bunny will be trusted to the loving care of the lucky prize winner to whom he will be promptly delivered 😀

Quick! Prevent Fracking in Lancashire!

By

UPDATE:  Lancashire county councillors have rejected Cuadrilla’s application to drill for shale gas at Preston New Road.  Fantastic news and a huge relief!  Thank you to everyone who signed the petition.  Stay in touch with Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth because this is just the beginning.  According to the Guardian article, Cuadrilla will certainly appeal the decision and our Conservative government is extremely pro-fracking.  But we can stop them if we stick together.  A big thanks goes out to all the councillors on the committee who stood strong and voted against Cuadrilla’s application.

dont-frack-future-web

A critical decision on fracking is taking place in Lancashire. County councillors are set to either slam the doors on plans to drill for shale gas, or give way to the fracking industry.

After an initial vote, councillors have hit a deadlock. Seven have come out in support of fracking, with seven other councillors standing against.

A final has been scheduled for Monday, 29 June. So between now and then, we need the councillors on the committee to know that if they take a stand against fracking, we will stand with them.

Please go to the Greenpeace site right now to sign the petition – it only takes a few moments and it could mean the difference between letting the frackers in or seeing them off for good.

Don’t put it off – they’re voting again on Monday!

Thank you xx

Friendship

By

The Elephant Sanctuary, Tennessee

Fruit Sudoku

By

fruit sudoku

I think sudokus are fun but someone I know hates maths so numbers make him panic and he just won’t try them.  I told him they have nothing to do with maths but he is adamant!

So I’ve made a fruit sudoku for those who, like him, are panicked by numbers.

For the uninitiated: the idea is to fill each box with one of each fruit while making sure that there is also one, and only one, of each in every vertical and horizontal line.

You don’t need to print this out.  Just copy/save the picture and open it on your computer in ‘Paint’ or similar picture editing program.  Then zoom so that you can see the whole thing on your screen and copy and paste fruits into the empty squares as you solve the puzzle.

Have some fruity fun 😀

Roots, beans and greens

By

Home Sweet Home

By

Tower Hill Stables Animal Sanctuary

Fiona Oakes – International marathon runner, fire fighter, provider of sanctuary for animals.

Help her if you can 🙂

Sanctuary And Safe Haven For Animals

By

You’ll need tissues for this one but you’ll love the fairy tale ending 🙂

Click here for SASHA Farm’s website

Story Time # 5: Oliver’s Vegetables

By

Bryan and Kath and everyone else

By

Recommended Reading: Oliver’s Vegetables

By

Oliver's Vegetables

This is a brilliant short story by Vivian French with gorgeous, vibrant illustrations by Alison Bartlett.

Oliver's Vegetables

Basically, Oliver’s mum has the common problem of not being able to get Oliver to eat his vegetables.  The only one he will eat is potatoes, in the form of chips.

Oliver's Vegetables

But when he goes to stay with Grandpa and Grandma for a week, everything changes.

Oliver's Vegetables

Grandpa tells him he can have chips if he finds the potatoes in the garden, but while he’s searching, if he finds something else, he has to try it.

Oliver's Vegetables

Highly recommended bedtime (or any other time) reading which will make you hungry.

Borrow it from the library or get your own copy 😀

Piglets!

By

These piglets are Antonio and Bertha, who were rescued from the factory farming industry.  They are so sweet, beautiful and funny 😀

This video just makes you feel happy 🙂

Sherman & Geynes Episode 2 is here!

By

The wait is finally over.  See what these vegan sleuths have found out now.

Hold on to your hats – it could be dastardly!

children's comic

Click the pic for Episode 2: In the library with the elastic band.

Not familiar with Sherman and Geynes?  Pop over to the 5 years and up page for episode 1 😀

And they’re back! Tomorrow.

By

vegan comic for children

Well, they will be tomorrow.

Watch this space!

Episode 2: In The Library With The Elastic Band will be on the 5 years and up shelf tomorrow 🙂

Let the trees stand

By

And the best and most productive way to stand for trees is to adopt a plant-based diet.  These forests are being felled at an alarming rate to provide grazing land or grow fodder crops for farm animals.

If everyone ends their dependency on animal foods, the forests could be left in peace.

It’s that simple 🙂

Make A Jigsaw

By

Music:  Lost In Space theme by Apollo 440

Time for a little smackerel of something

By

Pendennis Castle

By

DSCN2351

I never got around to telling you about our visit to Pendennis Castle when we went to Cornwall last year.  I have mixed feelings about castles.  On the one hand I love the feeling of history, picturing how people used to live at the time the castle was built.  I feel amazed at the architecture and how such big, strong, heavy, impressively crafted structures got built in the days before motor vehicles and cranes.

DSCN2395

DSCN2391

DSCN2392

Pendennis Castle

On the other hand I recoil at the violence they remind me of – the dungeons, the canons, the holes in walls for shooting arrows through and holes above the gates for pouring boiling oil through.

DSCN2355

Pendennis castle

But at Pendennis Castle at least there is one thing I’m not in two minds about – the cake!

DSCN2332

Here there was not just one, but two different types of vegan cake!  The lemon cake you see above and the flapjack pictured below.  I eat a lot of flapjacks and I can honestly tell you that this was the best I’ve ever eaten!

DSCN2334

Of course we told the cook how much we loved it and how pleased we were that there were vegan options on the menu and the lovely lady said that they always make sure there is something for every dietary requirement and she invited us to return to the cafe for lunch as she was making a delicious vegan soup.

Hurrah for English Heritage!  Very well done 😀

Oh, and the views are pretty nice too 😉

Pendennis Castle

Pendennis Castle

Pendennis Castle

Sherman & Geynes #2, Coming Soon!

By

Sherman & Geynes, Expert Sleuths

Episode 2:

In the Library with the Elastic Band

coming very soon 😀

vegan comic for children

For the story so far, click here

Save The Human!

By

Food Fight!

By

FOOD FIGHT: Bullies Poisoning The ‘Hood Get Splattered! — Earth Amplified, feat. Stic of Dead Prez

Brilliant! 😀

Wha Me Eat by Macka B

By

Fantastic impossible-not-to-dance-to vegan music 😀

Put your feet up and watch A Turtle’s Tale. Lovely.

By

Dairy anyone? No thanks.

By

20 Years of Hillside Animal Sanctuary

By

These guys are amazing.  Not only do they provide sanctuary for over 2000 rescued animals, they also do undercover investigations into farms which lead to the exposure of horrible cruelty and the prosecution of the perpetrators.  Take a look at what they’ve accomplished over the last 20 years and support them if you can 🙂

Click here for info about how you can help 🙂

Save The Cow, Save The World

By

save-the-cow-save-the-world-1

10 acres of land will support:

61 people growing soya

or

24 people growing wheat

or

10 people growing maize

or

2 people raising cattle.

****

“The world’s cattle alone consume enough food to sustain nine billion people, which is what the world’s human population is projected to be by 2050.”

Mimi Bekhechi, The Guardian, 22 January 2013

Recommended Reading: Hellen Hen

By

Hellen Hen

This is a truly beautiful little book for reading to small children by Maria Luisa Arenzana and Antonella Canavese.

Hellen Hen title page

It is full of surreal rhymes and stunning illustrations which convey a peaceful, loving message of compassion and empathy for animals, hens in particular.

Hellen Hen excerpt 1

Hellen Hen excerpt 2

I love the verse on the above page which reads

Our love

means something

which is nothing

in our hands

and it’s everything

in the world.

I took this to mean that it’s no good just to say we love animals and feel we love animals unless we put that love into practice in the world by living a compassionate life.

A truly beautiful, dreamy book which I’m sure would delight small children.  It’s available on Amazon and, if you want one, could be with you in a few short days 🙂

Violet’s Anagram #3

By

Can you get it before Miranda does? 😉