Tell us about how your day is going!!

[Gliondrach]

Have you done any sprouting, YouFirefly? Have you started your own veganic farm yet? It's coming up for Summer down there and it's a good idea to make hay whilst the sun shines. If you like hay, that is. :hungry:

[YouFirefly]

Not yet! But it's definitely on the agenda! I live in a flat with few windows that get barely any light, let alone sun, so I can't do it here. However, I am going home to my parent's place for a few months and then moving into a new and hopefully sunnier flat :)
My mum has started a vege garden at home which is also very exciting, she's put a huge variety in there so I can't wait for that!

[Gliondrach]

I hope your new flat is suitable for your veganic farming plans. You'll be able to educate your mother on permaculture and vegan-organic growing in her garden. Get her to grow lots of your favourite fruit - gold kiwi fruit. :D

[YouFirefly]

Lol! I'm more of a green kiwi fruit girl tbh

[Bowwowmeow]

Well I voted. Don't know how much good it'll do, but I did it anyway. :bhead:

[KRITER]

Took my dog to the vet.I was up all nite with him.Wen I got home yesterday everybody come out the doghouse but him.I got him and took him inside.He went to throing up all nite long.At first it had blood in his barf.He woodnt eat or drink anything.I sat up with him till this morning and got him to the vet.Was a couple hours late for work.They checked him out but I left him at the vet so they wood xray him and run tests.Wasnt nothing in his belly but his pancreas was messed up.The vet said he ate somthing he shoodnt hav.Hes drank water.She said they hav some meds for him and some special vittals to ez him back into eating somthing.Going hav to giv up a blanket.He thru up on all the other blankets and rugs I had.So not a reel good day but cood hav been worse surenuff.I just heard we supose to be geting sno tomorow.Thatll meen 12 hour shifts.

[Blueshark]

I think it will just take time for your dog to flush out the toxins out of his system.

Today I took delivery of my new sofa. It is beautiful. I feel quite spoilt.

I went to work late..but left home after a few hours. It was a good day.

[Gliondrach]

Took my dog to the vet.

I hope he gets better soon. It's very worrying when loved ones are ill. I'll be sending him some good thoughts. What's his name?

[Bowwowmeow]

Took my dog to the vet.I was up all nite with him.Wen I got home yesterday everybody come out the doghouse but him.I got him and took him inside.He went to throing up all nite long.At first it had blood in his barf.He woodnt eat or drink anything.I sat up with him till this morning and got him to the vet.Was a couple hours late for work.They checked him out but I left him at the vet so they wood xray him and run tests.Wasnt nothing in his belly but his pancreas was messed up.The vet said he ate somthing he shoodnt hav.Hes drank water.She said they hav some meds for him and some special vittals to ez him back into eating somthing.Going hav to giv up a blanket.He thru up on all the other blankets and rugs I had.So not a reel good day but cood hav been worse surenuff.I just heard we supose to be geting sno tomorow.Thatll meen 12 hour shifts.
That happened to Daisy once. She ate something with onions in it, that I didn't know were in there. It was pretty scary. She was throwing up blood, and pooping blood too. That was several years ago. She is fine now.

[KRITER]

My boys name is Nash.He didnt thro up dun last nite.I put some medicin in a littl bit of food and he ate it.He wanted to go out so I let him out in the dog house with his sisters.Ill bring him in tonite wen I get home and giv him some more medicin.Had everybody in last nite.One of Nashs sisters talks in her sleep and my boy cat was trying to make doe on my belly most the nite
We supose to get a few inchs of sno today and I beleev it.I got one tractor out pushing it.Just hope I dont hav no problem geting home tonite.
Thats my day.

[Gliondrach]

Good news about Nash.

Our snow has all gone - disappeared a couple of days ago. But it snowed a bit this morning. Didn't settle for long.

[KRITER]

Sno stoped.But coodnt driv up to the house.Hill too slipery even for my 4 wheel driv truk.Parked it across the creek on the closest flatess spot.Singing,walked thru the creek and up the hill to the house I go.Its just one littl inconveinenc in the way I liv.Forced xcersize.Anyway,I get up to the house,dogs are in thair fenc and coming out the doghouse,all 3.I let them out and Nash is runing round in the sno like a puppy,hes 5years old and 60+ lbs,with his sisters.I coodnt beleev the chang from the morning wen I left.I giv him his medicin.All he wanted to do run and roll in the sno.Thay dont see anything rong with our lifstyle.Thay dont care about the cold,the sno,rain or mud.It was reely cool to see Nash happy and feeling good,yeehaa.I giv him his medicin this morning befor my hike to the truk.He took it no problem.So now if the sno starts melting today Ill be happy too.But the xcersize is good.My day is just starting and going prity good.

[Blueshark]

Glad Nash is doing well now KRITER.

[Gliondrach]

Yes, glad Nash is all right again.

[Bowwowmeow]

I'm hoping to veganize my Gramma's wine cake recipe. My first attempt is baking in the oven right now. Other than that, it is very dull and rainy, and I have a headache.

[Gliondrach]

I hope your successful vegan wine cake helps to drive your headache away.

Is it difficult to veganise it?

[Blueshark]

Love baking cakes. I am going to start myself.

Today I have a cleaner round doing a spring clean - so should be nice for me.

Will do some shopping a bit later on.

[Gliondrach]

Couldn't one of the maids have done it? Either the upstairs maid or the downstairs maid. Or the tweeny.

[Blueshark]

The maid was busy on an errand delivering hampers to the young cousin at boarding school.

[Gliondrach]

Couldn't one of your footmen have gone on the errand?

[Bowwowmeow]

I hope your successful vegan wine cake helps to drive your headache away.

Is it difficult to veganise it?
So far yes. It didn't rise properly. I will have to try again. :D

[Blueshark]

Couldn't one of your footmen have gone on the errand?
The footmen are on vacation in Barbados. :smile:

[Gliondrach]

For the first time in many years I have received some Christmas presents. :yea: Father Christmas must have been in a hurry because they were left outside my door in a holdall. There was £121,280 in used £50 and £20 notes, a mask and a gun.

[Ayashi Foxtail]

Rofl!

[Bowwowmeow]

I guess I've got the dropsies. I just broke the lid of my nice clear glass tea pot, and now my keyboard just slid off my lap and landed on the floor. I think I should go back to bed.

[Gliondrach]

If you do go back to bed, try not to fall out.

[Gliondrach]

I was going to go out to buy some food but I noticed that the Doctor Who Christmas 2006 special was on. So I stayed in and watched it.

I could go out now to the shops but, as it is a bank holiday, they might close early. I have enough food to last but will need to buy bread tomorrow.

[Bowwowmeow]

I managed to catch a cold, so I will not be going anywhere. Sore throat and stuffy nose. :(

I had a very strange experience driving home Christmas night. I was nearly here, only about 30 miles away, and it was quite late, after ten PM, and I was just listening to the radio and thinking about nothing in particular as you do after you have been on the road for several hours, when the horrid image of an animal running out in front of me and me hitting him suddenly arose in my mind. I thought about how grateful I am that I have never struck an animal with my car, and within seconds, there materialized a raccoon in the middle of the road. Somehow I think I sensed him there before my headlights got close enough to illuminate him. I suppose the sudden image of an animal in the road coming into my head at the exact moment could have been a coincidence, but I find that too convenient an explanation for its strength and timing.

He was just a little one, and needless to say I was able to brake in plenty of time for him to run back out of the highway. The image in my head seconds previously was of a possum, and I thought this was a possum til I got close enough to see his tail. Most raccoons are three times larger than this little fellow. He was indeed just about possum sized.

[Gliondrach]

Very strange. Lucky for the racoon that your intuition warned you.

[Blueshark]

Also got a cold. Stuck in bed but don't feel that bad. Going to work tomorrow.

Was at my aunt and uncles place over xmas. They have a farm. It was a weird experience. Big turkey for lunch and was there eating my celebration roast. What about 'blood' money??? Maybe thats why John Robbins gave up his rights to his family fortune. :wolfwhis:

[Gliondrach]

I hope you feel better tomorrow, Blueshark.

If you want to give up rights to any fortune you are welcome to pass them on to me.

[Blueshark]

It does make me think. Spending wisely is probably the best option. So serious Arrghhhhhh

[Bowwowmeow]

... What about 'blood' money??? Maybe thats why John Robbins gave up his rights to his family fortune. :wolfwhis:
I think it was, yes. It had a lot to do with how sick it was making people too though. John Robbins is a rare breed.

[Blueshark]

I think it was, yes. It had a lot to do with how sick it was making people too though. John Robbins is a rare breed.

He is a rare breed and he did have a very comfortable early life. I enjoy his books but then he should give them free on the ebook circuit!!!

[nagev]

I managed to catch a cold, so I will not be going anywhere. Sore throat and stuffy nose. :(

I had a very strange experience driving home Christmas night. I was nearly here, only about 30 miles away, and it was quite late, after ten PM, and I was just listening to the radio and thinking about nothing in particular as you do after you have been on the road for several hours, when the horrid image of an animal running out in front of me and me hitting him suddenly arose in my mind. I thought about how grateful I am that I have never struck an animal with my car, and within seconds, there materialized a raccoon in the middle of the road. Somehow I think I sensed him there before my headlights got close enough to illuminate him. I suppose the sudden image of an animal in the road coming into my head at the exact moment could have been a coincidence, but I find that too convenient an explanation for its strength and timing.

He was just a little one, and needless to say I was able to brake in plenty of time for him to run back out of the highway. The image in my head seconds previously was of a possum, and I thought this was a possum til I got close enough to see his tail. Most raccoons are three times larger than this little fellow. He was indeed just about possum sized.

Well that's great for the raccoon. :)

I've had similar experiences, although I tend not to see anything in my head, but instead have felt concerned and slowed, only to have an deer run out in front of me. Passengers have even commented to me about it (the slowing down and suddenly a deer runs out).

I used to take it as evidence that somehow I was connected to something larger or could sense other animals or something, but now I just don't know. :)

[nagev]

As for today (well technically it was yesterday), I worked for a few hours in the office, then I went home. I felt like I was done there, but it was also partly due to a headache starting. Headaches tend to make me rather irritable and grumpy. I don't even like to be around myself then.

So after a sandwich and a cara cara and some satsumas, I took a nap for 5 hours. I feel better now, except for being awake at 1 am.

[Gliondrach]

Well that's great for the raccoon. :)

I've had similar experiences, although I tend not to see anything in my head, but instead have felt concerned and slowed, only to have an deer run out in front of me. Passengers have even commented to me about it (the slowing down and suddenly a deer runs out).

I used to take it as evidence that somehow I was connected to something larger or could sense other animals or something, but now I just don't know. :)

You are connected to something larger. Some sort of energy field that all animal life (perhaps plant life, too) is plugged into.

[Bowwowmeow]

I'm sorry you suffer from headaches so nagev. I remember those times when I did.

I decided to give this oil pulling a try. Had my first go this morning. Kinda icky, swishing oil around in your mouth for twenty minutes. We'll see what happens.

[Gliondrach]

Are you going to do it whilst doing something else or will you sit there just swishing about?

[Bowwowmeow]

I have several morning chores to do, which I will swish during. Feeding Rufus his breakfast, cleaning and refilling the water bowls, starting a fire in the stove to warm the place up, putting on the kettle for tea, and reading emails etc. if I still have time.

I am using organic untoasted sesame oil.

[Gliondrach]

Do Daisy and Seymour get their own breakfasts?

[Bowwowmeow]

Seymour free feeds. He can eat whenever he wants. I don't normally have to refill every morning, just when it's almost gone. Daisy only eats dinner. Rufus has to eat two smaller meals a day, for fear of bloat, so he gets fed twice. Daisy gets a few extra morning wee-wee snacks to make her feel better though. ;)

[Gliondrach]

:)

[Blueshark]

I bought Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2 for Wii

plus this:

http://1.2.3.11/bmi/ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/212n1rgNO7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

I feel a bit old doing it but heck it is just for fun - and I am sure I can enjoy myself a little with it.

[KRITER]

Been pruning bushes all day.My shoulder a littl sore but I got to get back doing stuf and it was a reel nice day for it.Supose to be a few degrees warmer tomorow.Im liking it,tell you wut.

[Gliondrach]

I didn't expect something I'd ordered to be delivered today - it's a new chin up bar - but the Post Office attempted to do so. I only ordered it on Friday. I heard someone ring the intercom and ignored it. Then I looked out of the window and saw a Royal Mail van parked further along the road. Then I saw the postman walking back to it with a parcel under his arm. I will now have to wait until they send me a postcard to tell me they couldn't deliver it. Then I'll go to the sorting office to pick it up. I hope it arrives soon.

[gabbles]

Answer the door next time. :updn:

[Gliondrach]

Nothing to do with what I'm doing today, more about what I saw yesterday. I saw two yellow crocuses peeping above the grass. Spring is on the way. It's been quite warm recently.

[Kiki]

Yeah crocus! We are so sick of the cold, snow, and ice. Sun is out, 37 degrees F, high of 46 predicted. Never thought that would feel warm to us. Plan to take pups to the doggie park for a romp. And hopefully, get on my motorcycle and ride....fast! Already spent 30 minutes in the dry sauna, had a big bowl of oatmeal and green juice.

[Gliondrach]

Are helmets compulsory for motor bike riders in the US?

[nagev]

In some states helmets are required by law, but not in all.

[Gliondrach]

Right. Whilst I would wear a helmet - probably my Waffen SS one - I don't believe in compulsion.

I would look quite good wearing that helmet riding a Triumph Rocket III.

[nagev]

Right. Whilst I would wear a helmet - probably my Waffen SS one - I don't believe in compulsion.

I would look quite good wearing that helmet riding a Triumph Rocket III.

Can you show me what that might look like?

[Gliondrach]

I don't have a Triumph and my tin hat is being used as a fruit bowl.

[Gliondrach]

I've just watched a telly programme about Steven Seagal in which he was interviewed. I like his films. There's one on now but it finishes too late and I have to get to bed soon. Before the interview came on I thought I heard them say that he's an animal rights activist but they didn't mention it in the programme. I've just seen on wikpedia that he is.

[KRITER]

Day going good so far.Walked down my hill early this morning to get to the truk.Its reel cool in the mornings.Still dark.Had storms yesterday so I couldnt see many stars.Road reel mudy and the creek is up big time.There was a flood warning yesterday.Seen a few small rabbits crossing the road.The creek is reel loud.Its dynamite,I love it.So now the sun is almost all the way up and Im organizing the day.Hope yall hav a good day

[Gliondrach]

I dropped my teaspoon in the kitchen a couple of hours ago and could't find it. I have looked twice. I searched every square inch of the floor and moved everything that was on the floor, including the bag with rubbish in it, the dustpan and brush and a scale model of Mount Everest I made out of papier-mache.

No sign of the blighter anywhere. There may be a portal into another time zone somewhere in the kitchen.

[Bowwowmeow]

I had that happen to a pillowcase once. A whole pillowcase! It went into the washing machine, but it never came out.

[Gliondrach]

These strange happenings are proof that strange things happen.

I've looked for the spoon several times now. The floor space measures 5 foot 1 inch by 7 foot. The spoon has nowhere to hide. I haven't moved the fridge but I have poked under there with a stick. It is too far away from where the spoon fell and I was standing in the way. The spoon can't be under there.

I don't have any more teaspoons. There is a spoon smaller than a teaspoon somewhere in the house but I don't know where.

[KRITER]

I didnt kno Seagal was a animal rites activist.He got into some kind of troubl in New Orleans.He is or was a volinteer or a part time city cop down there.
I like his movies too.My favorite was the one about the oil rigs in Alaska.
My work day is fixing to be done.Im only working 3 half days a week.Had to talk the Doc into leting me do that like I did after the first surgery.
Good luk with the spoon.I kno its rite common but I loos socks like that.

[Gliondrach]

He's still a deputy. I like that film about Alaska.

Still no sign of the spoon.

[Gliondrach]

I found the spoon!

It was behind the cooker. But that is another mystery: to get behind there it had to bounce the opposite way it had fallen - it fell towards me but the cooker was in the opposite direction to me - and then would have had to make a sharp left turn to end up behind the cooker.

There are strange forces afoot. It might have something to do with the Moon being closer to Earth than it has been in 20 years, coupled with the Spring Equinox. :beanie:

[Bowwowmeow]

It snowed again last night. All the roads to Yosemite are closed. They have had 3.5 feet of snow, mudslides, fallen trees, and downed power lines. They rarely have to close all their roads. The one near me is known as Yosemite's All Year Highway. Never supposed to be closed.

I didn't get strong wind. My dad said they were having up to 70 mile an hour winds in Carmel. There was also a tornado watch in Sacramento.

I just stayed home and tried to keep warm.

[Gliondrach]

Where can you buy tornado watches? Do they work by battery or do you have to wind them up?

[Bowwowmeow]

:p


I think I threw my back out a bit, but I did manage to get the seat of my truck fixed. About a week ago, or maybe even longer, I realized I hadn't driven it in a long time, and sure enough, the battery was dead. I jumpered it with my van, and drove to Merced. When I got back, I flipped the driver's seat forward, to get something out from behind it, and the lever broke. I couldn't manage to fix it that day, as it started to rain. I figured I would have to remove both seats from the truck, and see how the unbroken one works, in order to see where the broken one needed fixing.

It's been so snowy and rainy since, I haven't been able to do it. The sun came out today, so I figured I better give it a try.

I couldn't shift the bolts though. They must be rusted tight underneath. After much awkward examination, I found that there were two catches, on either side of the seat, that needed to be pinched closed. I wedged a stone into the one near the door. Unfortunately the one on the other side of the seat proved impossible to reach. I had a go at the bolts at the front of the seat, and broke them free. I managed to lift the seat high enough to reach the catch and pinch it closed, and got the seat pushed back into position. So now the truck is drivable again!

I have a compressor. I guess I better get a pneumatic socket wrench. My Dad used to be around to help me with stuff I couldn't budge, but he's 160 miles away now, and I am on my own.

[Gliondrach]

It's a bank holiday here. There's no sign of anyone moving about outside. No traffic. Except the car that went by as I was typing that there was no traffic. Nothing on telly or the radio. I've been on the internet, off and on, all day. I've just put some potatoes on to cook. I'll be having veggie stew later after I've put the carrots and cabbage in.

I've also been looking for a book. Can't find it anywhere. And I've been looking at videos on youtub. Mainly videos about the wartime Home Guard and balcony vegetable growing. I don't mean I've been watching videos of the Home Guard growing vegetables on balconies. No, I've been watching two different types of videos.

[Bowwowmeow]

I've just been playing Stevie Ray Vaugh videos on YouTube, and chatting with a young vegan friend from the UK.

[Gliondrach]

I heard some fireworks about an hour ago. Must be for St. George's Day. I've never heard them on this day before.

[Gliondrach]

It's very quiet on my street. It's another bank holiday. So is Monday. Last Friday and Monday were also bank holidays.

[KRITER]

A big old oak fell yesterday.It was a reel cool tree.I heard it fall up at the house.It sounded like it was in the front yard when it fell.It was reel loud.It fell across the road and I dont hav a chain saw.I cut a small trail thru the woods around the tree so I could driv to work this morning.The tree wasnt dead but I reckon the base was weak.There was 5 snake skins in it and a reel big nest.The dogs liked the nest.It suks.I use to see hony bees up in the tree every year.There wood be so many theyd sound like a motor.Im borrowing the chain saw at work and I got cut it out of the road.I want to do somthing with wood.Dont kno yet what.I reckon it was its time.

[Gliondrach]

What a pity the tree fell. What are you thinking of making from the wood? You might be able to sell some of the wood.

[Bowwowmeow]

Aw I hate it when trees blown down. I know they can't live forever, but it always makes me sad.

My day isn't amounting to much. It's raining and I have a headache.

[Gliondrach]

My day isn't amounting to much. It's raining and I have a headache.

:comfort: I hope your headache gets better soon.

[Bowwowmeow]

Thank you. It's gone at the moment. It's one of those that might be back again tomorrow though.

[Gliondrach]

I went to town this afternoon because my credit card bill is due for payment next week and it won't be convenient to go next week. I intended to buy bread whilst in town. The Co-op didn't have any that I wanted. Waitrose didn't have any. Fenwick didn't have any. So I had to get a bus to Morrison's superwotsit. They had some. Then I walked home. My left hip area and left foot were aching.

I watched a BBC play/film thing called Dirk Gently this evening. I think the book was called Dirk Gently and the Holistic Detective Agency. I enjoyed it. The book was written by Douglas Adams, who also wrote A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[Bowwowmeow]

Well I've got to give Rufus a bath. Damn stinky hound dawg.

[Gliondrach]

There's been a pop concert of some sort going on all day. They just finished about 20 minutes ago at 10.30. I say it was a concert but it just sounded like a noise whenever I heard it. The singing was not good. I could only hear it from the back of the house. It must have been extremely annoying to people who live closer.

Some committee will have decided that the concert could go ahead and will have given them a licence. They were licensed to make a noise. The noise is still a noise whether or not they have a licence. Without the licence they would have been breaking the law and causing a public nuisance. No one asked me if I would object to the noise. Some committee decided that what is usually against the law would not be against the law in this instance.

It must have been the Evolution Weekender 2011. I didn't hear anything tuneful. The singing sounded like a karoke night in a pub. And they become millionaires for that.

[ChenLi]

Stressful. Telephone line was fixed but caused broadband to cut out so virgin man was here longer than usual. I ran out of credit on a call to my bank. My account has probably been compromised so I've had to order a new card which will come between 7-10 days to reach me. Only good thing really was my gas bill for a few weeks was only £3ish.

[Gliondrach]

How was your account compromised?

I'm very careful to use as little gas as possible. I have it on the lowest flame when I heat the kettle. If it's higher most of the heat goes round the kettle and up in the air. It takes longer - about 10 minutes to heat 1/2 pint of water but it saves gas. I don't wait for the water to boil. I make the tea as soon as the water starts making a noise. :chef:

[ChenLi]

No idea.

I just have an electric kettle.

[KRITER]

What a pity the tree fell. What are you thinking of making from the wood? You might be able to sell some of the wood.

I probably cood sell the wood.But I dont like folks coming back here.Iv took a few logs that was holloed out and have broke ends on them and stood them up at the entrance to my place around the outside of the garden and up at my drive way.I got them looking like they was trees them selfs.They go from about 3ft to maybe 5 or 6ft.Im going fill them with dirt and plant somthing in them.I got a hole mess of reel find hummus out of the base of the tree.Lots of carpenter ants.Im breaking up alot of the bark for mulch.Im going try to use as much of the tree I can for borders and maybe someother fun creative thing.Theres nothing about this tree thats lite xcept the hummus.It had poison ivy all over it too.Now so do I.

[Gliondrach]

Good use of the wood.

[Bowwowmeow]

Well I was having a good day til I got home and found my internet was off. I visited with the camels and the ostrich at Buffalo Ranch again, and got a few more photos. The ostrich likes clover blossoms, and he will eat them from your hand when he can't reach the ones that grow on the other side of the fence. :)

[Blueshark]

I had a smoothie breakfast on Vicar Lane, and took a train back home...now meeting people online..

[Gliondrach]

It's such a nice day that I would've gone to the local countryside park if I hadn't had other things to do at home. Perhaps next weekend.

[Blueshark]

Suited and booted for an interview. Not sure if it is ideal..however good fun nevertheless.

[Gliondrach]

What time is the interview?

[veganvulture]

My day's not going well, although i've mass emailed loads of animal organisations about an event to raise funds for animals, and the sun is shining, I still feel upset. Met a couple of vegan people, who I really like as I never knew vegan people before and felt alone. However, me and this guy have been getting close, have a lot in common, but he doesn't see anything wrong in getting close, then pissing of to his other half when he want to, they have some 'open relationship' thing which I don't agree with, but I just wanted to be friends, and enjoy life, he had other ideas though. So i'm left alone, dwelling, again :-(

[Gliondrach]

Welcome to the forum, Veganvulture. :wave:

It might not be much consolation but you now have us and you are not alone. Is there no vegan or even vegetarian group nearby you could join? Or an AR group?

Why not post details about the event in our events section?

Announcements and Events:
http://www.thesaucyvegan.com/showthread.php?t=2385

[KRITER]

Im fixing to get my tractor,cut some grass then hav to cut some trees back from a road.Then I go home

[Blueshark]

What time is the interview?

It was on Monday noon. went well...now we wait!!!

[Blueshark]

I am struggling a bit with my veganism at the moment. Need to re-focus and get back on the wagon. Its the ONLY option for me, but sometimes I struggle.

[Gliondrach]

How are you struggling? Can we help?

[Blueshark]

Lost a bit of motivation in terms of foodstuff. I ate a sausage roll - and was seriously ill the whole day. Still feel quite ill now.

[Gliondrach]

Well, learn your lesson and determine never to do it again. For motivation, think about how the victims feel. :professor:

Have a nice cup of tea and a ginger nut.

[Blueshark]

Yes Sir! I think I need to do something vegan, like visit a sanctuary. Just need to find one local. No way am I going non-vegan.

[Gliondrach]

I'm trying to identify some birdsongs. There's a bird I have heard singing this year but I'm not sure what species. After listening to some recordings on the internet I think it's either the song of a Dunnock or a Wren. I am tending more towards the Dunnock.

There's another one I've heard for two or three years. I've described it as sounding like a squeaky wheel. But, if it's the Great Tit, the song is usually described as sounding like a bicycle pump. I think it must be the Great Tit's song.

I heard the songs here:

ht--tp://ww--w.garden-birds.co.uk/information/tutorials/

But the great tit on the next site sounds a bit different. He also has a bit of his song that sounds as if he's saying: 'Did you do it? Did you do it?' My mother told me there is a bird in India called the Did You Do It? because of their call.

And the coal tit on this next site sounds a bit like a squeaky wheel but the coal tits on the previous site don't.

ht--tp://ww--w.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/g/greattit/index.aspx

This is a great site for British birdsong.

[Doughnut]

I felt annoyed today with everything and decided I want to either win the lottery or become Buddha 2. Either way I will walk the earth smiling and stopping in food places looking for Vegan options.

[Gliondrach]

Walking the earth smiling is a good idea. You might brighten up the day of someone who needs a brighter day. But then again, people might think you are up to something.

[Blueshark]

I think we should have a saucy vegan meet up?????

[Gliondrach]

Where? I vote for Tahiti.

[Blueshark]

Yorkshire - being the centre of the uk and the universe ...;)

[Gliondrach]

I have to be careful in Yorkshire, especially the West Riding. There's still a shoot-to-kill policy there towards me.

[Doughnut]

Should we not call it a "no meat up" and then we can really be all smug.

[Gliondrach]

Good idea for the name.

[Blueshark]

We could do it at my cake sale...happening sometime soonish - a cake sale - plus a mini vegan party in my apartment.

[Doughnut]

Party + Vegan + Cake = Megan fox's underwear

Today I went on a date with a meat eater. Did I kiss her? nope. Do I want to? yes

Am I sinner?

Where are all the vegan girls!

[Gliondrach]

I have three of them banging on my door, begging me to open it. I suppose I'll have to let them go eventually.

[Doughnut]

Gliondrach you must share the vegan love.

Perhaps the forum could have a love shack section or something and we could lure vegan girls into it with these alcoholic cup cakes.

I made vegan yorkshire puddings again today and I am always filled with such expectations when I look through the oven glass door but they always look like hocky pucks. If I had a vegan girl friend she could comfort me in situations like this.

[Gliondrach]

You will find no comfort from vegan girls. They just laugh at your latest haircut and pour scorn on your choice of t-shirts. Have you tried egg replacer for your puds?

A very wise man, with the initials of N.N. once said:

True comfort comes from within the heart of one who is comfortable. In seeking comfort and solace we cause perturbations in our own equilibrium and defeat the object of our search. We must become as content as one who is content for true contentment and comfort. One who is content and comfortable does not seek contentment or comfort. In seeking to find we lose that which we seek because we must acknowledge our lack of comfort and contentment in order to seek them.

[Doughnut]

I bet Nitram Nagev does not have a girlfriend as it sounds to me that is what he is saying reading between the lines.

Nitram Nagev + sexy voluminous blonde woman = ahhhh and few words

Today I looked at my hair in the mirror several times and wondered if I have cut it too short. Then I thought if I joined the French foreign legion it would be too long. I am always surprised how my mind works but that does not mean I like it. If I had no mind and could just perceive things directly I think that might be pretty cool.

[Gliondrach]

The GREAT Nitram Nagev (to address him in the way that has become universally recognised) has many women throwing themselves at him. He has forsaken all earthly delights (except tea and toast) to devote his life to scholarship and good works.

Professor Nagev once comtemplated joining the Foreign Legion and got as far as France before he changed his mind. He was told that camels spit at you.

[Doughnut]

If a camel spat on me I would probably get the hump. (watching the tumble weed blow past.)

Today I learnt the girl I am dating is a Christian and I am not sure how to take that as I fundamentally disagree with her faith on so many levels. Having said that she is just pretty enough and intelligent enough for me to let it slide for a while but I know the demon in me will come out at some point and pounce on this. It would be easier for me to date an atheist because I could show her she was wrong by the power of truth but a christian is pretty much nailed tight in the coffin.

So I am currently dating a meat eating christian... God what have I become. It's the lack of Vegan girls I blame for my fall from grace.

[Blueshark]

What is your view on dating? Can you date different people at the same time? When do you become a faithful couple?

[Gliondrach]

As someone who has had the benefit of learning directly from a great man, I think I can answer both of you. Also remember the old adage: a bird in the hand is worth two on the disco floor.

Christians are all right. Good ones are good. Better a Christian than a satanist, is what I say.

A man of honour would never walk out with two women at the same time. It just isn't the done thing.

[Doughnut]

I agree and think only Americans date more than one person at a time. I will of course give Christians a chance as long as they do not freak out when I get my tarot cards out.

Jesus used to be my girlfriend and God raped Mary but I will keep this info quiet for the time being.

[Blueshark]

I think it is ok to date two girls, however when you are couple - I like to be faithful mostly.

[Gliondrach]

You'd do well as a mormon.

[Doughnut]

Today I got a pay rise of 10% so I was very pleased. However I have been thinking about my own mortality a lot more so I thought I need to buy a sports car to off set this. I am figuring people who drive fast don't think about death much.

[Gliondrach]

You could take up morris dancing. Morris dancers never think about their mortality because their whole reason for dancing is to celebrate life.

If you are good enough you could join the Vegan Morris. This is a group I formed recently. You may have seen us dancing at the Glastonbury festival. The Vegan Morris is not to be confused with Vegan Maurice. He doesn't dance, as far I know.

[Bowwowmeow]

:p

[Blueshark]

You'd do well as a mormon.
I think my philosophy is normal and healthy. In my experience, girls can be strange during the initial stages, and have no compunction about discarding you as if you don't exist. :curtsey2:

[Doughnut]

Broken hearts and vegan morris dancing, I wonder what it would feel like to combine the two things? The broken hearted morris dancer sounds like it would make a great album title.

Tonight I choose solitude over a curry out with some male friends. I am staying in with my cat friends and drinking some dam fine wine.

[Gliondrach]

When it comes to choosing between human friends and cat friends, the cats win every time. They don't try to run off with your wife, make fun of you or ask to borrow money.

Today it has been very hot.

[Blueshark]

This forum is so slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww sometimes!

[nagev]

I woke up about an hour ago, so it's going alright. I need to tidy a bit and work on the garden and a Physics consulting project today (so I have to prep that stuff). Then I have some friends coming over later this evening and I'll need to harvest some veg for the meal.

[Doughnut]

The forum is slow because someone stole all the vegan girls. I joined this site with the promise of saucy vegan action but so far non.

Today I had my 4th date with this girl and it was very nice, we played bowls, had a meal, went for a walk. However I think she wanted more of a longer kiss at the end and I just gave her a quick kiss on the lips and a hug. I feel bad like I did not do the correct thing but perhaps next time! I guess I am slow but I like to get to know someone first.

[Gliondrach]

According to Nitram Nagev's book on courting: 'The Gentleman's Guide to Wooing', you shouldn't even be holding hands until after the 6th date. You shouldn't be unchaperoned until after the 12th date.

I haven't done much today. I've watched quite a bit of telly - Dad's Army, The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution, and Camelot.

[Doughnut]

The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution <--- the presenter I wanted to hit with a large heavy object that would leave an impression on his head.

[Gliondrach]

I did wonder at first if it was a comedy but I soon got used to the bloke. I'd never heard of Bazille.

[Blueshark]

My life this week:

My flat is a mess - the windows are getting done and I can't tidy it up.
Cash flow has dryed up - Everything is too expensive.
Work is bonkers - enough said.
etc..

Should be better next weekend though!

[Blueshark]

I will go to the gym later for a dip in the pool and steam room.

[Catfriend]

Quite rainy here today and cool. I am still searching for an agent for my novel and getting discouraged. But when I started I told myself to hope for a 99% rejection rate. ;) I am not halfway through my list yet and have revised my query letter,so we will see.

Both my parents have one of those nasty summer colds. They were just up to see me on Thursday. I hope they left nothing behind!

[Gliondrach]

I didn't know you were writing a novel. Good luck! Do you just send a letter to agents or do you also send the first two chapters and a synopsis of the other chapters?

Over here we have a yearly publication called the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook, which lists agents and what they specialise in.

[Catfriend]

I didn't know you were writing a novel. Good luck! Do you just send a letter to agents or do you also send the first two chapters and a synopsis of the other chapters?

Over here we have a yearly publication called the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook, which lists agents and what they specialise in.

Different agents ask for different things. Some want just a query and others want a a query and a number of pages. (It can be anywhere from 5-50.) Others want both and a synopsis as well.
I have been using Agent Query as well as Writer's Market.

[Gliondrach]

Keep going. I believe the first Harry Potter book was turned down by about a dozen publishers. The book was submitted to the publishers by J.K. Rowling's agent.

[Doughnut]

I want to write a novel but all I have is a title.

Today was a strange day but I think there were lessons between the lines. I went for a drink with my ex (a mistake perhaps) and I think I saw for the 1st time in reality that she is perhaps not a nice person, which was startling to me even though we lived together for 9 years. I spoke to my new date on the phone when I got back and I said something I should perhaps not of said in retrospect... nothing bad just made myself sound like a bit of a dick.

[KRITER]

Todays going ok I reckon.Got to move some furniture in few minits.I been off last couple days.My uncle died and we buryed him Monday.He was like a big brother to me wen I was groing up.That day was a littl weird.Becuz I ten to keep to myself its the only time I see kinfolk.Im off work agan tomorow.Got to take Abby,one of the dogs,to the vet to get her shots up dated and get checked for tick diseeses.

[Blueshark]

Quiet day at work. There is a nice chap who wants to leave, and it seems a shame. He is the sort of chap I could be friends with. However if he wants to leave, its his choice. I feel more at calm today - however my troubles are far from over.

[Gliondrach]

Todays going ok I reckon.Got to move some furniture in few minits.I been off last couple days.My uncle died and we buryed him Monday.He was like a big brother to me wen I was groing up.That day was a littl weird.Becuz I ten to keep to myself its the only time I see kinfolk.Im off work agan tomorow.Got to take Abby,one of the dogs,to the vet to get her shots up dated and get checked for tick diseeses.

Sorry to hear about your loss, KRITER. I hope you are feeling better. :hug:

[KRITER]

Thank You Kindly.Im good.Got alot of good memorys.They wont never go away.

[Gliondrach]

I have an old white cotton shirt that I only wear in the house. I decided to dye it with tea. This is what the British army used in India in the 19th Century to turn their tropical white uniforms khaki.

I have been using tea bags recently and kept the used ones for this purpose. I boiled them up this morning, squeezed them out, put the water in a bowl and added salt. The salt 'fixes' the dye.

The result is not what I had hoped it would be. The shirt is a very pale sandy colour. If I'd used fresh tea it would have been darker. I suppose I could just keep seeping it in tea each week until it gets as dark as I want it.

[Gliondrach]

The shirt looks like a cream one now. I think I will next try turmeric. I'll mix it into a paste with salt and water and then add it to a bowl of water. Then soak the shirt in it.

I am thinking of starting the Gliondrach Vegan Natural Dyes Company. Any colour you want as long as it's green, brown or yellow.

[Gliondrach]

Are any of you Californians affected by the blackout? If you are, you won't be reading this until you aren't affected by the blackout. So why am I asking?

[Bowwowmeow]

No not me.

[Gliondrach]

How do we know you're telling the truth?

[Bowwowmeow]

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[Gliondrach]

I bought some net curtains for the sitting room a few days ago. Two of them because I couldn't find one to fit the window. It is 80 inches wide and 52 inches high.

I went to town yesterday to buy two more for the front bedroom window. They didn't have any of the style I bought before. Then I saw one that was big enough to fit the window which is the same size as the sitting room. I opened it today and realised it is longer than it is wide. I am going to put it up sideways. It will fit then. I'll put a hem along one side for the wire thing I use to suspend them. I might even take the tape off the top to reinforce it.

[Gliondrach]

I haven't done much today. I watched Downton Abbey on telly. I have become a fan.

There is a beautiful sunset right now. Lots of light grey clouds with orange and pink clouds mixed in with them.

[ChenLi]

Bloody neighbours. Threw a glass jar full of pate over onto my patio and it smashed...only knew about it when my dog was eating the pate and then I told him not to and he brought it all in, luckily I got most of it from him, but he managed to eat some, and in the other parts of the pate were glass shards, so I hope to god that he didn't swallow any glass shards too. There's glass all over my patio too :(

If the cigarette butts weren't enough they have to go do something dangerous and put my dog at risk! I was going to the vegan fayre in wolverhampton today but since that happened during the night I'm to worried about the dog to go. Thanks neighbours, for making me stress and fret, ruining my trip, and potentially risking my dogs life! Fucking polish, fuck off back to your own country....I'm not normally racist, but there's polish people all over this part of town and I have them above me, and beside me, both play loud music... :(

Please excuse the swearing, just tired and stressed.

[Gliondrach]

I hope your doggie is all right. Keep a close eye on him.

You should report those neighbours to the council's environment department. Keep a dairy of all the things they do. Get a digital voice recorder in case any encounter turns to threats. Secretly record what they say.

[ChenLi]

Well, recording what they say is a bit hard when they speak in polish...lol.

Part of me wants to confront them and part of me says not to aggravate the situation.

[Gliondrach]

If they speak to you they'll have to use English. You could report them for causing a danger to your dog. How is he?

[ChenLi]

He's fine so I think he was lucky with the pate he ate.

[Gliondrach]

Good.

[Gliondrach]

Attended the Remembrance Sunday thing. Was at the Armistice similar thing on Friday. No one asks what the purple poppy is for! Have people lost their curiosity? If I saw someone with a strangely coloured poppy I would ask them what it represents.

Will be watching The Great Escape film on telly in about 30 minutes - for the umpteenth time.

[Gliondrach]

I cut my hair yesterday with scissors and electric clippers. I made the usual good job, although I managed to cut a small patch near my right ear a bit too short. I decided to cut the back a bit shorter today. I didn't look at what I was doing. I just ran the clippers up the back of my head with the half-inch guard on. I looked in the mirror and saw that the patch near my ear is now bigger and you can see the skin. I will have to cut the back even shorter tomorrow to make it less obvious. I will probably use the quarter-inch guard and go higher up the back of my head and then use the eigth-of-an-incher to cut nearer the neckline. At this rate I might end up with a Telly Savalas cut.

[Gliondrach]

I watched quite a charming film on telly about the Cottingley Fairies. This is the true story of two girls who claimed to have photgraphed fairies in 1917 in Cottingley which is near Bradford in Yorkshire.

They convinced many people including Arthur Conan Doyle that the fairies were real. If there are any fairies, I'm sure they will be vegan.

I remember seeing a television documentary many years ago about the subject.

[Gliondrach]

I bought six Egremont Russet apples, four carrots and some broccoli at a self-service stall in our local covered market today. All for £1.50. The apples would have cost nearly that in a supermarket. The carrots are quite large and there's enough broccoli for two meals. The market -The Grainger Market - was built in the 1830s. I've been shopping there for most of that time.

[Ladygold]

My partner of 3 years proposed last night and I am engaged!!!! Wow for me lol
:blinkwave:
LG

[Gliondrach]

Congratulations, LG!


:yea: :fireworks: :cheer:

[Ladygold]

Congratulations, LG!


:yea: :fireworks: :cheer:

Thank you:yea:

[Bladerunner]

Congratulations Ladygold. :colors:

[Gliondrach]

Did he go down on bended knee?

[gabbles]

Congratulations Ladygold :cheer: :yea: :thumbsup:

[Gingerbreadman]

Congratulations LadyGold!!:yea::yea::yea:

[Gliondrach]

People who break in to vivisection torture chambers or to factory farms to liberate the victims in them are called criminals. But what about the Royal Navy in the early 19th-Century? They broke international law when they stamped out the slave trade. They stole the property of the slave traders by liberating the slaves.

That thought came to me as I was watching a telly programme an hour or so ago when the presenter mentioned that the RN broke international law. They imposed their morals on others - which is what the ALF-type people do. It was right 200 years ago but is wrong today. The law is not only an ass (sorry, asses) but is hypocritical.

We need a new term instead of 'the law is an ass'. Perhaps 'the law is a vivisector' because vivisectors are so stupid that they think they can use one species to study another species. There is a thread for such veganising of sayings.

[Gliondrach]

I arrived home a little while ago to be greeted by the stench of what smelled like cooking fish from next door. Those neighbours have just moved in.