Shopping tomorrow :] I have to buy the old lady in work an Xmas pressie even though she's just gonna wrap it up and give it to someone else, but we have to save face. I'll get her a Newbridge Silver photo frame. Simple as.
The water's gone in Dublin so I'm in Laois where the pond has frozen over and half the house is in scaffolding! It's not so bad.
The snow's gone! YAY!!! But just incase the snow decides to come back... which it will, I popped over to eBay and bought two lovely jumpers.
Ignore the dodgy yellow shirt.. I'm gonna be so warm in the Alps. Which reminds me - I really need to get snowboard boots and gloves. Other than that, I am sorted for a weeks snowboarding!!!
I also have bid on two other jumpers which I quite hope I win. I need snow boots too.... My good old Docs have finally failed me after years of service... back to eBay so.
My horoscope told me today that "Inflated dreams all but assure failure." That's an interesting, yet accurate take on things. This year, instead of celebrating NYE, I will stay home and study. Little point in rejoicing in the drunken Dublin festivities that signal the end of a horrific year falsely amplifying the beginning of an even worse one.
One day I will make it to the Northern Lights.
And then all will be well.
In other news!!
Canon EF 50mm f1.8 complete with UV filter :]
I also bought Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Boxed Set: v. 1, 2 & 3 which I'm very excited about.
I'll be shooting like a pro in no time at all. In other news Santa has informed me that I can't cook and gave me two recipe books, a baking bowl and a measuring jug. Happy days :]
Myself and mam were clearing out stuff the other day and it came up that she was quite the photo enthusiast back in the day. Now she lost her film SLR over the years but my aunt lent me hers with two beautiful lenses - 50mm prime and a macro :] HOWEVER my stupid moral have ruined it for me. All film is coated in Gelatin. I poked around the veggie boards and one hopeful individual posted that a company called Adox make certain art retro films which are vegan-friendly. A quick email to said company dashed my hopes in which they outlined that research into non-gelatin based films ceased in the 1970s. They were quite sly in their reply though, stating that one's desire not to eat meat should not affect their ability to buy film from a small, struggling photographic company - just a few beached animals can provide enough to produce a thousand films. That's all very well and good, but where are you getting your gelatin from sir? Slaughter by-products. Devastated.
It's getting quite difficult being a vegetarian. It's been about a year and a half and as I continue on my quest to save the world, I learn that more and more products are made with animal by-products. Car tyres and lubricants used in steel forming, for example. I remember a certain ignorant young one posted her status on Facebook as "Let's face it lads, vegetarians are just wrong." I'd love to smack her in the face for that. If only she knew where her food came from and the environmental impact that the meat industry is responsible for, I'm sure she take a different attitude to it.
But sadly that is the way the world works. However, I was quite happy to read in my new Jamie Oliver recipe book a little passage outlining how cruel and polluting the meat industry in Britain is. He outlines how animals are pumped full of antibiotics to rid them of the diseases that are rife in the cramped conditions that they are reared in. Jamie Oliver launched a campaign against the meat fed to school kids in the UK. His extremely graphic coverage of how chickens are reared sparked my interest in vegetarianism. For this I salute him. One man is slowly improving the conditions in which animals are kept and it's at least a start. I'm no Beatles fan, but Paul McCartney did say "If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat." And I will save the planet.
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