i have just finished three exhausting days working at a Fair (about which i tell more here; which was very interesting, and teaching but I am now physically and intellectually (and by extension emotionally - i am half expecting to burst in tears in a minute) knackered, which is good timing since tomorrow Monkey and I are going to Nottingham for the ( Read more... )

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and join your favourite environmental association...

Friends of the Earth is a neat choice...

or WWF is great if you want to help protecting endangered species (this one reminds me nice childhood memories, little me writing angry pamphlets about the human's destructive behaviour and why sharks ( Read more... )

humpf -- it's the first part of the elections today; that is, the French presidential elections ( Read more... )

Remember what I said about D.K roaming freely around ( Read more... )

( For the Ones Who Only Care About This Lj Because Of the D.K )

Some of you might have read my previous eco-tip informing you of the existence of cheap and cheerful eco-friendly tee-shirts in high-street shops. but as yearning pointed out, are those, if eco-friendly, ethical ( Read more... )

... seriously shocked about the Virginia shootings. The sheer violence of it all. The cold-blooded act. The gross uselessness of the authorities. The lack of protection of and communication to the students... I'm baffled. This is sickening.

Today Monkey and I decided to walk up the road and visit the Horniman Museum ['ha!ha!ha! Horiman Museum!', laughed Monkey all day long, like a five-year-old schoolboy, 'Horny-Man! Get it? Get it?'-- I'm sure millions of people have done this one before], which is a lovely Natural-History-type museum, set in a beautiful building, in the middle of a ( Read more... )

Today our friend R. came for lunch and we had a lovely time on the terrace.
It was bright and sunny, the company was pleasant, the veg. tasty and crunchy (yay organic), the wine made em cheerful (HAHA i'm an alcoholic), the D.K was surprisingly quiet:


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I'm not a big fan of shopping, although I do enjoy buying the occasional nice piece of garment or crazy accessory;

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