Today's things...

[juliet]

• I have a sniffle. Bah. catsgomiaow is also sniffly, so maybe it is Evil Glasto Mud-Bug. I am also utterly utterly exhausted. Ah well, it was worth it :-)
• Had fresh raspberries from the garden for breakfast this morning, mmm, and fresh baby carrots & rocket as a midmorning snack. And the courgette plant is flowering, so soon there will be courgettes as well!
• I have ordered a cheap compost bin from Southwark Council, who seem to wish to give us 70 quids' worth of compost bin & kitchen-compost-collector & so forth for a tenner. Which is nice of them.
• I have also asked the Centre for Alternative Technology about recycling Tetrapaks - apparently there's somewhere you can post 'em to to be recycled, but the person in the Greenpeace field who told me this knew no further details. Should you also be interested in such things, Watch This Space for more info as it arrives.
• No Sweat now doing pink high-top Converse-a-likes, in conjunction with a feminist anti-war group, for a mere $43 plus shipping. Red high-tops will be going on sale later this week. Go buy!
• Just in case there are any women on my FL who haven't already been pointed at this: Mooncups rock. Environmentally friendly alternative to tampons (stop contributing to the horrendous quantities of the things ending up in the sea) which are also cheaper (£18, last for 10 years minimum), more comfortable (IME, & there's a 3-month money-back guarantee if you disagree once you've tried), more convenient, & you don't have to pay Gordon Brown vast swathes of VAT every month. Plus some people reckon they're good for period pains.

I appear to be in hippy mode today. Well, I spent most of yesterday complaining that I wanted to go back to Glastonbury & live in a field, so... I'm sure it'll wear off soon & I will go back to my normal partly-hippy self instead.

Is it hometime yet? I am having to come into work tomorrow despite the Tube strike, bah humbug.

Comments

[karen2205]

I think you've missed my *extreme* TMI re menstural cups, which I'm really not going to repeat here....(anyone who actually wants to know can email me)

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Haha i was totally going to buy a mooncup as well, but spent all my money on kerayzee haircuts and stupid perry. Note To Self: take more CASH next time...

Ooooh growing things! Your chili plant has grown THREE more leaves since the last update. It is still very tiny though!

[juliet]

Get it online! See link above....

yay for chilli plant! V much want to see yr New Hair, there should clearly be BEER soon. Or possibly NotBeer, given that I am feeling atm rather like I shouldn't drink for a bit...

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Have already printed out an order form (probably shouldn't do any more e-tailing at werk ;))

Well i shall see you at Your House on the 10th, so i shall bring the plant and my !!new hair!! along if i don't see you before. Oh deary me yes i am SO not drinking for the next couple of weeks... beer bad. beer very bad.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Damn! I was going to buy a Mooncup at Glastonbury but I forgot. Never mind, the interweb will work just as well. And is less muddy.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

I've thought about getting a Mooncup, but I'm afraid the very thought of fiddling with something "up there" squicks me out totally. I can't even abide the thought of using tampons. I'm afraid I'll be sticking to towels.

[elleblue.livejournal.com]

Ooh, it's good to see an actual recommendation for mooncups from a friends-list person. I was a bit icked when they were described to me a year ago, but I came across a link via an LJ friend-of-friend fairly recently, and have been debating giving them a try since then. I still don't really believe there can't be some kind of leakage issue, though, if it's really so discrete and not sore..

[juliet]

It basically holds in place via a sort of suction/vacuum, which avoids leakage.

It's definitely worth giving it a try - as I said above, they offer a money-back guarantee, so if you don't get on with it, you can abandon it. IMO they're a hell of a lot less icky than chucking vast quantities of bleached cotton into the environment on a regular basis! (and in practical terms, I also found that they seem less icky than tampons, myself, once I tried). I've been using mine (well, actually mine's a Keeper, but the principle is the same - Mooncup weren't in operation then) for over 3 years now.