10 years

It seems hard to believe that I have been vegan for 10 years. It really only seems like a short time ago that people were surprised when I told them I had become vegan and many clearly thought it was a fad. But here I am 10 years on with a soon to be 6 year old son (his birthday is Friday and he is very excited) who has been vegan his entire live and a husband who has been vegan for several years We are all fit and healthy Wuffy especially so. People are still amazed that we are raising him as a vegan but what else would we do? I can’t imagine feeding him things that we do not consider to be food, that mkes no sense at all.

So I will continue to ignore the comments or looks that people give me and rejoice in our healthy animal free lifestyle:)

 

Swimmer of the week

At his swimming lesson tonight Wuffy was swimmer of the week. He was so pleased with himself

 

Calling UK veggies

Four years ago I rather stupidly started an MSc in Nutrition part time. With full time work and a small child it has been a huge struggle but I have finally reached the last hurdle, the dissertation. I am currently refining a questionnaire andI need to get as many responses to this as possible, which is why I am asking for help.

It is a fairly straighforward tick the box questionnaire that will take about 10 mins to complete. It isn’t quite ready yet but I am hoping to have it finalised by Friday and then I will send it out. I have to hand the dissertation in during August so I’m going to be on a pretty tight schedule.

If you would be prepared to give me 10 mins of your time I would really appreciate it. If you could e-mail me with questionaire as the subject I can gather all the e-mails together and send the questionnaire out at the end of the week. I thought that if I asked you before it was ready I would then be able to get going instantly once it is ready so don’t worry if it is a few days before you receive anything.

p.a.andersonathud.ac.uk

obviously just change the at in the middle

Thanks in advance for doing this. I already have over 30 e-mails from folk who are not veggie so I need some veggies to add to that

Pamela

 

Still alive

Just thought I would let everyone know that we are all still alive and well. Life has just been extra hectic over the last few months.
We spent a wonderful week in Northumberland at Easter, a castle every day and I think Wuffy would have happily visited more.
At the end of May we went camping for 4 nights, again Wuffy loved every second of it.
When I have time I will post a couple of pictures.
Right now I have an MSc dissertation to hand in third week of August and it isn’t started yet, It’s going to be a hectic summer

 

Chicken pox

wuffy is off school with chicken pox He seems fine although he has a high temperature.

 

Watch this space

I know I have been very bad about posting but I have just saved loads of photos to my memory stick so I will be updating the blog at lunchtimes

I promise some Christmas photos tomorrow

 

Digley Reservoir

You may remember some time ago I said we walked round Digley reservoir and it was a beautiful sunny day but I didn’t have the camera. Guess what I had the camera today and it poured down.

This is on the Digley dam looking across the reservoir towards the dam that separates it from the Bilberry reservoir

This is from the bilberry dam looking to the digley dam, not actually raining at this point. This is the mid way point and it stopped raining for about 5 whole minutes, the full walk took about 90 mins

This is bilberry reservoir, much smaller than digley

Warning sign, you would have been mad to enter the water today!!

Wuffy and his Daddy having a paddle in the stream, this happens every time we walk here whatever the weather!

Explanations of why the water is frothy were being discussed here

Submerged trees (which were not submerged on that sunny day, actually the water was a good 30 feet further out that day) and Wuffy getting wet again.

Finally at the end of the walk the bell tower, awful pictures but I had given up trying to dry the lens by this point.

 

They’re back

Lidl have plain chocolate lebkuchen in again, as far as I can tell from the ingredient list they are vegan

Guess what I am eating right now

I aslo bought some chocolate coated marzipan with pineapple and some chocolate coated dried apple. YUM

 

Quiet

For the last four years Wuffy has gone to a nursery very close to my work.  This has meant him coming in the car with me every morning.  When he was small I used to sing songs to keep him happy.  As he got bigger he joined in.  Then the stage came were he shouted either lorry or bus at every large vehicle he saw, regardless of what they actually were.  He then learnt all the different vehicle names and always got them right.  We had times when he insisted on picking the songs, you would not believe the weird and wonderful things that Old McDonald had on his farm.

 

The last year or so has been question time.  Question after question about some of the most amazing things, he just wants to know everything and every answer led to another question.  One day we wanted to look at a map when we got home but we forgot, the next day we remebered and I told him to imagine our front door with a huge map pinned to it and to make sure he had that picture in his mind.  We then talked about other things but when we got to our front door he remembered the map he has since used the technique all by himself.

 

We have done so many things in that 15 minute journey morning and night, yes there were days when I was really tired from work and all I wanted was for him to shut up (no chance of that he’s a chatterbox). But do you know what – the car is so so quiet now.  School is right across the road from our house, it takes 1 minute to walk there so I’m making that journey to work alone and I can’t believe how quiet it is.