Tuesday, 10 July 2007

Fallen off...

Its official...I've fallen off the proverbial wagon! This weekend turned into a complete nightmare with the veggie thang! First of all Friday, that was OK, went well, had a lush cheese pizza from the dudes at Sainsbury's, was very nice and went down well with a glass of ice-cold cider. Saturday, well a strange day, breakfast was fine. Then at about lunch time, we headed for a large Volkswagen festival, which was amazing. Loads of cool old campers and beetles, as well as lots of cool hippie folk. Met up with my brother and my sis-in law and also a load of the usual suspects that keep going to these shows, all in all good. Again, the show didn't prove a problem as i consumed a large portion of strawberries for lunch, which kept me going. Its official, strawberries are now my fav fruit, they are bloody lush i tell you!

Sat night...this is where it starts to go downhill quickly....we all went out of some drinkie poos in Bristol, was most excellent, with lots of banter etc etc and much commenting on how girls can possibly wear such short skirts..slappers! lol Well anyway, we headed to a Noodle bar...where...i kind of ate chicken in Szechuan sauce...honestly, though, there really wasn't much on the menu in the way of non meat stuff, so had to give in.

That was bad...next day...Sunday...bad again! Ended up having a roast dinner with chicken!!!!!!! I will say it was organic,free ranger chicken, which makes things a tiny, tiny bit better, but still...not really proud of the weekend, but it did make me realise that cutting meat out, or at least down is not very easy, when you are so used to eating the stuff.

It has, however, made me more determined this weekend to get back to non meat consumption. Still gutted though, plus writing this, it makes it even worse! :(

On another note, the plastic bag thing, is still going well, none taken over the weekend, and my bag's for life were given a good airing with the shopping trips we went on. Just now wracking my brains to see what i can do this week that will help the planet. Well for starters, the car is again getting ditched, its almost needing a service, and i really, really, really don't want to spend any money on the thing, so its staying at home this week, instead the good old train will be used.

Again, not a problem, i don't really mind the train, its not as bad as people make out, and as long as you don't expect too much of it, then its fine. Don't expect them to be on time every day, don't expect them to be quiet, don't expect there not to be an element of stress involved in catching one, and don't expect there not to be some one standing next to you with a small child who is intent on playing with my numerous Greenpeace and pro-animal badges that adorn my "man bag". So, there, i don't expect anything, so most of the time, I'm not disappointed or surprised at what goes on in our great railway network. Plus what gets me is...if there were no trains at all, people would be up in arms, at least we have them and at least they are OK!

Thanks for the comments on previous posts guys, its lush to see them, feel free to give me a good old grilling over falling off the wagon this weekend, ill make up for it though! :)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Ian, can't for the life of me remember how I stumbled upon your blog but I've found it really interesting and inspiring. About the veggie thing, don't worry too much if you slip up, it's a big change and will take time to get used to.

Good job on ditching plastic bags, I hate those things. I wonder how long until they get banned in the UK.