Bloody Asda! Their cherry packs are made from some kind of unopenable, diamond-shrouded plastic or something. Instead of the lid coming off, as I'm sure they planned it to, the sharp edge of the lid jammed itself into my finger which now has a huge papercut style wound which is seeping blood and not healing.

I sent a stroppy email because I am

Tofu craving satisfied.

Yes, I know that I'm odd.

I just took down the tree. Its sad.

... and it makes me so sad. However a couple of things in the media today have caught my attention

-  The independent (http://www.independent.co.uk) have launched a campaign against packaging which is pointless and cannot be recycled. Some supermarkets are terrible! For example - Morrisons sell shrink-wrapped swedes - environmentally inexcusable ( Read more... )

This year I donated the money I would normally spend on Christmas cards and Matt's birthday card to Crisis.

For every £3 donated they can feed 6 homeless people. So instead of my workmates receiving cards which they would look at once and then throw away, 30 homeless people can have a Christmas dinner.

Merry Christmas!

For those of you that Matt didn't tell, I'm in Dublin!

Yey! I just ate mashed potatoes and a vegetarian Boxty (google it - its yummy!) and we're heading off to the guinness factory this afternoon.

Guinness!

Anyway, Matt is great and I can't believe he managed to keep the location of my suprise birthday trip from me for so long - I only found out ( Read more... )

Following on from earlier, I have just had to endure a stupid and one-sided argument from my boss and workmate on why factory farming is not a bad thing ( Read more... )

This article is about Youngs who make frozen seafood products. Their proposed action in this article is simply unexcusable. If I ate fish, I would boycott them.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2455309_1,00.html

http://www.samaritanspurse.uk.com

I do this each year. Its great fun to choose the presents and it is a nice thing to do. I shall be assembling my shoebox this weekend. It would be great if other people wanted to do this too.  This post is mainly for soton people as I do not know of dropoff points around the country - however it should be easy to ( Read more... )

ok - so Tom Cruise is an idiot and Katie Holmes isn't great either....

....but look how cute their baby is http://www.vanityfair.com/images/main/060906mapr03.jpg