Another day in village-y Britain...

[kittyboo_tastic]

Monkey and I are getting accustomed to having breakfast on the terrace, although it is somehow stressful, since we must keep an eye on the Damn Kitten, as she is too young to roam around freely. And Damn Kitten has very much understood where she should not go (i.e. the neighbour's roof) and keeps trying to sneak away from our constant watch

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[kittyboo_tastic]

thanks for the link! unfortunately, as much as Peckham and Blackheath would be very close if we had a car and were willing to drive (which would not be great for the carbon foodprint), it's a bit in the asshole of the world if we were taking the transports -- I don't even want to think how many bus changes we'd need to do.
The other problem with markets, is that my situation now (i.e. at home, not working) is very temporary and I'll be very soon back to work, and much probably working at weekends (somehow I do not trust Mr Monkey for veg. shopping; i'm sure he could find chocolate cabbage rather than the real stuff); which is why I was very tempted for A&C - and we were going to get the Farmer's choice, but thanks for the information. We get an organic box with our monthly online shopping at tesco (which is great b/c it made me discover Kolrhabi and forced me to eat turnips) but we can't live on one box a month plus I want to get away from the tesco-unethical-vicious-circle as soon as we can... we thought about getting on the allotment waiting list (but how easy it is to grow your veg in an allotment without a car) but that's no good on the short term... aaaargh!

Also, I had an idea of something we could do together, since we are both interested in that, and since you seem much more knowledgeable than me in that field: why not do a 'ethical tip of the day' theme together, you'd do every two days, and i'd do every two other days...??? let me know what you think ...

[yearning]

Kohlrabi, ha. I ate that as a child a lot, now my stomach doesn't like it anymore. and I love turnips! potato-carrot-turnip mash is easy and yummy!
yeah, Tesco is evil, although I bought my Ecover washing up liquid there today.

do you mean open a community or just post in our private journals? generally it's a good idea, and I guess there are loads of little things that one can do and "ethical" seems like a wide field.

[kittyboo_tastic]

i originally meant our LJ, and then thought a community may be a good idea although I haven't looked up yet how easy it is to create a community, if such communities already exist etc...
I was thinking, we could even do weekly themes, etc.
yeah, ethical is a wide field b/c i figured 'people' may get bored if we were only dealing with, say, carbon footprint, or fairtrade or whatever, while a mix of all makes things somehow funnier; and people interested in the environment are generally interested in humanitarian etc etc [although not always; take the soup kitchen where i volunteer: no matter how many times I (and others)have groaned about the inexistence of recycling policy, they just don't give a shit];anyways, if you're up to creating a community, WHY NOT???! If you want to keep it on our LJs, that's cool too!!!

[yearning]

I'd say we should start in our personal ljs and maybe we think it's going so well in a couple of weeks, we can transfer the tips to a community. there are so many communities and then we have to advertise it in other ljs etc, I think it's a lot of work. let's keep them random, I'd say. we can create a special icon for the tips. ;) ok, once you start, I'll post one a couple of days later. and we can give them a special tag, so we can refer more easily.

damn, I spent so much time on lj today, I should really write my essay.

[kittyboo_tastic]

ok, let's do that! [I've been looking at a few communities that look interesting but most are not very 'active']
i should post something either tomorrow [if i've been good and efficient at the library] or the day after... dunno about what tho... what do you think...? recycling? eco-tourism? volunteering?
...

I'm spending too much time on LJ too...

[yearning]

well, there is http://community.livejournal.com/environment
and
http://onelittlething.livejournal.com/ who is actually doing something like what we plan, I totally forgot about her until now. However, her project is a bit bigger and she tries to research the issues thoroughly. but I think we could still do it, just give one small tip, a couple of paragraphs and open to discussion.