Sweet summer days

First up, yet another apology! I've been neglecting my poor blog, I'm sorry oh little Eco things for not posting on you, i know you have missed me deeply, but now on this lush day, when i only have another 2 hours left in work, i thought id update this with some recent going's on.

Now prior to anything, congratulations to my brother, Andy and Suzanne, who had a cute little person on Sunday at around 9pm. He is called Ewan, which is an ace Celtic name. Its quite exciting now being an uncle, but kind of scary at the same time, i feel old!

First of all. Shower gel! Now i have been a Lynx man for the past few years, no I've not been seduced by the recent advertising campaign, which as far as ad campaigns go, has been highly successful, even me talking about it proves it, evil corporate rubbish!!! Well anyways, Lynx, I've been doing some research and even though they say they keep animal testing down to a minimum, they still do it, so its the end of Lynx (Unilever) products for me. Whilst i appreciate the transparency of them saying about animal testing, no way do i want to be part of it, there are plenty of alternatives to it, and in this day in age, its simply not acceptable.

So the search is on for new shower gels and general smelly related products! The first one I'm going to try is Original Source they are registered by the Vegan Society and do not test any of their stuff on animals. That in itself is reason to change. As well as that, their tea tree and mint shower gel is meant to be amazing. The only downside to it, is the fact that it comes in a plastic bottle, which hopefully, will be recyclable. I will let you know how i get on with it!

The veggie thing, isn't going all that well to be honest...its so hard in the week not to eat meat, my parents cook the most scrumptious food and both love meat, so its pretty much impossible to get away without eating it. Hopefully this will change as soon as i move out which will be hopefully next year sometime! Weekends, i do try hard, and most weekends, as long as we go out and buy food, i can get through the whole weekend without eating meat, which makes me feel good inside, plus more importantly, has a small impact on how many animals are killed.

Aside from the that, plastic bags, it still amazes me how much packaging goes on stuff these days in shops. Next time i head to an evil supermarket, I'm thinking of removing all excess packaging at the till and just leaving it on the conveyor belt, i know its not the cashiers fault, and I'd never have a go at them, but maybe if supermarkets get it into their heads that people don't want a million bits of packaging for items, which don't need so much packaging, then maybe they will cut down what they use.

Plans for the weekend, none so far really, probably take Lola the puppy out lots and hopefully will be able to get out and enjoy this fine weather.

Also, on the blog itself, hopefully in coming weeks i will be redesigning it to give it my own feel, i have designed a logo, which looks quite nifty and have a colour scheme and layout in mind so that should be up and running in the next few months.

Hope everyone who reads this is having fun and is enjoying life, please leave a comment, i love hearing what people think. All you UK folk, have a nice bank holiday weekend, make the most of the weather! And to those not in the UK, have a happy, hippy weekend and have fun! :)