Jay, life is good :)

Friday we had a lovely night with Aoife and her boyfriend Lee, playing Koehandel, which is a great game (turns out to be German, natürlich) that's kinda hard to explain. Basically, you've got to buy animals by bidding for them. Of course the animals each have different worth, since the idea is to get four of each, sometimes the ( Read more... )

It's been a year now since we've started buying cruelty-free stuff and it's been a year with ups and downs. The biggest up is clearly that we have managed so well. The biggest down is that I'm still finding out more products have been testing on animals. Another big down is that the environmentally friendly products are often not totally cruelty- ( Read more... )

First of all, an update on my findings concerning animal testing and cruelty-free products. I have concluded that many people actually don't realise that yes, animal testing still happens and most if not all of the regular brands do use animal testing. I had quite a shock when testing my nivea, dove, aussie, Boots, Lidl and other products and find ( Read more... )

My father and sister aren't here yet, so I have some time on my hands. Cleaned the entire house today. Was badly needed, and this was a good reason. I am so much looking forward to seeing them!

As for animal testing, I did some research on the internet and it turns out to be close to impossible to get cruelty-free products here. Of course, this is ( Read more... )

Since my father and my sister are coming tomorrow, I thought this might be a good time to update. I don't know when I'll have a chance again.

I've been ill for the last couple of days and it is bloody annoying. I started coughing in England, and it was pretty bad in the weekend before last, but it seemed to get better on that Sunday. Then Wednesday ( Read more... )