Just Humans Being...

Mrs W, who follows our blog by email has very kindly pointed out that we neglected to say what we are doing with regards to the WWF's ideas. So here's the post from Saturday:  Earth Hour 2012  as reference & this is what we are doing... Transport - As we live in a rural area, we would struggle without a car. There is a bus route a mile away, though it only runs 4 times a day. It's also expensive (£5.50 return to the nearest town). There is  a community bus, which tends to fill up quickly with older people who no longer drive & that's great. We need a car for our business & most of our work is within a 3 mile radius. We have cut down on our trips further afield & wait until we have several things to do before making a journey - even Sime's gig journeys get combined with doing something useful on the way. Growing and wasting food - A stumbling block for us, in that our landlord really isn't keen on us digging up his lovely lawn! We grow some gar

Thank you for all your comments over the last couple days... We promise to catch up properly tomorrow. We've worked all weekend & in the morning we have builders coming in to take over our dining room, so we're busy moving our clutter from here to another part of the house! The guys will be here at 8am, so we're going off to bed early ... Last night,  I had my arm twisted to venture out & see The Dolphins play - which I enjoyed, as I've not been for a while.  Sime's old band turned up too to watch, which was a surprise - a nice surprise! Anyway, I managed to fit in a quick video in between stuffing CDs & their inlays into cases - which was a thrilling job! Sime says you'd all love to see it, so here is University by The Dolphins Fly:  Hope you enjoy it! Kay & Sime  xx

It's Earth Hour again on March 31st at 8.30pm. Our transition group will be getting together again for a shared veggie meal & bonfire. The idea to switch off lights & appliances for an hour isn't about saving electricity... It's about being aware that everything we do has an effect on our planet. Supporting the WWF Earth Hour  shows your willingness to acknowledge your role in the world's future & wouldn't it be nice to know that that future really could be bright! Here's WWF's ideas for us all to think about: Top ten ways to reduce your ecological footprint Don’t drive when there is an alternative – use public transport, cycle or walk.  On average we can reduce our total ecological footprint by as much as 20% if we don’t own and drive a car. Using it less will reduce your footprint. Grow vegetables and don’t waste food.  Combining these actions could reduce our footprint by 11%. Growing our own fruit and vegetables reduces all the

It is vital that when we educate our children’s brains we do not neglect to educate their hearts by nurturing their compassionate nature. ~ Dalai Lama~ Since we started home educating the kidlets in 2000, we took a journey into a world where learning never stops.  We realised very quickly, that none of us really wanted to continue with the national curriculum, but instead we let the kids lead the way.  It w as amazing that when given the space, they became more creative, naturally wanted to learn and so did we. Once we'd all decided that home education was for us, we chose the end of school term at Easter as the perfect time for the girls to finish school.  Several months before, we had booked flights to New York for the 5 of us to mark the millennium and were due to fly out on the following Sunday.  What a fantastic start to life without school. We visited New York City, Long Island, Up-state NY, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania  and dipped into Canada - it was a wond

Rose & Sal both live in Falmouth with their boyfriends. They also work together at the same store... Read more here We dropped Hugo off at the home ed group in Truro, where it was wet & windy... And arrived in Falmouth in time for some lovely sunshine... This is our favourite town centre street... The Natural Store is one of our favourite shops - well, it's actually 2 shops now. The first one sells groceries & the second sells supplements & has a deli... There are lots of independent shops here... And they are all pretty funky... Something for everyone too... Jam is our favourite music shop. We haven't actually bought anything from them since purchasing our first Ani Difranco CD in 2004!  But we do like going in to browse... Vintage clothing...  Antiques... Stones make delicious organic bread... A rather posh charity shop... This is the window of an old hardware store. We always wonder if anyone actually goes in to buy braces... Steep climb up

This year we have vowed not to buy anything other than food & really essential things. This also stands for both of our birthdays, so we've got to be creative. Mine's coming up soon & I've asked Sime to write me a story & make me a meal consisting of several courses. Though saying that, I'm not sure whether I could eat several courses anymore... Maybe it would have to be tiny courses! What we hadn't contemplated - is that our vegan diet would make us lose weight... The trousers I've been wearing today are now a couple of sizes too big & hanging off me, so because I really don't want to go down the road of buying more - Sime has sewn a couple of tucks in them for me tonight. Where has that flesh gone to? It's not like I'm working out - though I suppose we are more active. When I first became ill with Graves Disease, I lost about 3 stone & looked dreadful (as everyone kept telling me). The disease causes muscle wasting, which lef

King Neptune! Read about it here Happy Sunday  K&S xx