Holidays

Don

Don is here for a visit as he travels around Thailand in the school holidays. He is very well and we are sharing our health issue ideas. Don had polio as a kid, and as a result, has to be very careful about his body. We have been juicing and eating lots of fruit and veg.

Of course, tied into this is the horror story of the corporations who promote processed foods and medicine and diminuish fresh food. Yes, it's all related, I'm afraid, with a population addicted to fast food and paying out huge monthly costs for prescribed medicines, which under a healthy diet are completely unnecessary. The story is just awful.

So along with everything else about getting away from the system that governs us all, food is a key player. ANd if you want to be smart, get away from anything packaged or processed, meat and dairy (as an adult). You don't need it and it ain't good for you.

More and more I am wanting to move up to Chumpon to Oi's family. It's a massive undertaking but one we should do. Hat Yai is looking like Bangkok more and more and with renewed bombings (very sucessfully belittled by the Press), it ain't no place to live, especially with a kid. Let's hope we make the jump soon.

Aftermath

Gracie has 4 days off school so we are trying to keep her amused. I took her swimming this morning and we went to a new restaurant near the house which is great.

Patrick came over last night with some Guinness which we drank and watched music vids on Utube.

We are busy juicing all the time now and this is going great guns. I'm practically vegan. A shame I have had a few beers this week, but that will probably stop now for a bit and let my body feel the benefits of all this goodness I am pumping into it.

Gracie Lately....

Juiced

Today I bought a juicer. At 6,500baht quite a good one at that. I am yet to try it as riding back to town to put something in it seemed to much of a drag. But tomorrow I shall find some stuff to juice. It should be fun and I hope to become a regular juicer.

Been listening to Kate Bush's Ariel album which is great and Tanita Tikaram as I revert back to every so often.

Private classes are winding down to give me a proper rest. It's been fun but I am glad for a space.

I'm almost a vegan. Oi is really on board with this and makes wonderful veggie soups and broths. The weight I falling off, I hope.

No dairy, no meat. Quite easy actually. Coffee is a little bit harder to kick, and of late, I keep hearing Jonathan Snowdon saying, "I always have a strong cup of coffee last thing at night." It sticks.

Game of Thrones season 2 has kicked off and it looked a bit forced, I thought.

Season 2 of Breaking Bad still waits to be watched.

Hours are spent tending my village in the onliner Stronghold Kingdoms (free) and great fun.

Pat is on a juice diet as we speak and is off the social calender for the duration.

Watched Paxman's Empire series which is terrific.

Been going to a local market that does juices and spuds (baked on the fire at home) which is lots of fun.

3 Spuds

Friday night, and after a gruelling day with a moody, sick little girl, I'm ready for a break. Luckily, I got some toxins to kick back with when I got free time, late at night.

I been working hard. It's been a pleasure on the most part, but getting a tad strained as time wears on, wearing me out. I'm going to slow it down soon and do nothing.

No meat or dairy products have past my lips in a week. Those amazing movies, "Fat Sick and Nearly Dead" and "Forks Over Knives" drop the bomb on everyone's diet. Basically, if you want to live longer, just eat plants. I have been walking about feeling stunned at the strange, clear feeling flowing through my body as I walk down the street, or talk to someone. It's quite trippy actually. But it feels incredibly good. I'm buying my juicer this week and will consume countless juices from any green vegetable I can get my hands on. It's going to be fun, and the hit you get off these babies is amazing. It's like a miracle.

Between moments of frantic busy-ness, I throw myself in to my comfy armchair that accompanies my computer and stare as little peasants and serfs in the free online Stronghold Kingdoms brower game. Tremendous fun, and quite wicked.

A few bods are around, namely Patrick and new comer, Mark (a Canadian), a nice fella.

Patrick is spurring me on, as he is a long term veggie, and currently on a juice fast, between cans of cheap Guinness.

I picked up a cheap bottle of Famous Grouse the other day, which was a great accompaniment through the following week. Warm toddie and World of Tanks. It's rather fun.

I baked three spuds tonight in the campshire. Oi, who is hot into these new diet thing, made a delicious vegetable soups, with nine different vegetables in it. They went wonderfully together, and the spuds were ground breaking, in a good way.

LOve being off work....

Juicing

I've been fairly ok of late but have watched some great shows courtesy of Patrick on green juices and staying healthy. I like what I see and i'm going to buy a juicer and make some. Being the bad side of 40 means one must take staying alive seriously, as one could drop dead at any minute. Juice fasts and cutting out meat and dairy products looks mighty tempting. I've never been a great "foodie" anyway and I want to feel good dammit.

I've been pretty busy with private classes, Grace and trying to do this bloody passport application.

Regarding Grace, we have just added the routine Saturday morning trip to the town where she can run free in Central department store toy department and Lee Gardens. She had an ice cream in McShit and went into the kids play "Small World". Of this, I was quite jealous, as I don't ever recall visiting a world of balls and platforms myself when I was a young 'un.

I bought some strings for my decaying classical guitar and had a wee twang which was fun.

By for now, juicing is the thing that is in my iron sights...