Sunday, April 14, 2024
thoughts on the summer 2024 dress and its friends
Sunday, March 31, 2024
march, easter, april 2024
This will be a quick, short Easter post (or maybe I’ll continue to add to it later, haven’t decided yet).
March hasn’t been very eventful, but with the return of light (despite some snowy days) there’s hope of life after a long, dark, cold and awful winter. And that alone is cause of a little celebration I’d say. It finally feels easier to breath somehow. And for that I’m very grateful for your days, March of 2024!
Easter, which has always been my favourite holiday/long weekend (without reservation until M passed away on Easter week Wednesday in 2016, now I’ve come to appreciate it again, but it’s also a slightly bittersweet weekend for me…)
This year it has mostly been spent watching movies and TV-series (the weather hasn’t been great), drinking a lot of tea, finishing a couple of books (Easter weekend is for reading crime fiction - tradition imported from Norway ’pΓ₯skekrim’ - so that’s what I’ve mainly been doing.
My goal was also to finally finish that fluffy strawberry sweater I joyfully began knitting a year ago. I ran out of the pink colour when I was about to finish the second arm last year.
Had to come up with a creative solution, as it would be costly to send for a couple of pink skeins from Norway (the only seller) just for that.
Then the summer heat came, no time for knitting wolly things. And then the cold autumn/winter made it impossible to use knitting needles in a comfortable way.
So here we are. And I still haven’t picked up the needles yet. But there’s still one day left of Easter weekend…! π
March also brought one last vegan semla moment of the best kind. Which made the total this year to five, consumed over three months.
The best meal this Easter weekend, that’s nearly over alas, was the plantbased cream tea with scones we had on Easter Sunday. Not sponsored (alas) by Marimekko (or any other brand obviously) but as you know by now, the love for the colourful and bold dessign in long lasting quality runs deep in me.
So the Easter table is set with a mix of old, second hand pieces and a few new ones that I will continue to enjoy for many many years. ππ€π
I recall mentioning I was going to do a Maria Nila vegan colour hair pak to welcome March in style, in my last post? The colour Bright Red turned out great, and a few washes later it’s still quite visible (even if it’s slowly fading back to grey, via pink).
With the hope of life-feeling that March brought, I do continue to be true to myself and hopeful that April 2024 will finally bring that hard worked for positive changes and new (plantbased communicative) opportunities. Surely it’s time to shine and change now?
Many, grateful thanks in advance, April, your predecessor did well, now it’s up to you to carry that torch to greatness, mkay? Welcome happiest of Aprils!
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Monday, March 04, 2024
thank you february, welcome march 2024
Friday, February 02, 2024
bye veganuary, hello february 2024
Occupying the ’best’ hot water bottle has been a constant battle between Ztina and Γ got this freezing time of the year. They do have one each, but unless it’s placed in the same place, where ever they currently deem is THE place to be, this happens. One very satisfied, one grumpy beyond words.
Yes, crisp white snow is gorgeous. But dropping temperatures like this, and rising energy prices means (for many) that you can’t casually have the same indoor temperatures one has basically always been accustomed to.
Below photo was taken around 3 pm a couple of weeks ago. I think it was around -15C at the time.
I added saffron to the vegan American pancakes made with silken tofu I regularly make, it was lovely. If I ever get round to it, I’ll share the recipe. Even if I’ve become notoriously bad at sharing recipes I do have the intention of doing it. Every single time I say so.
Little pockets of joy have never ever been more important than now. And I’m really trying to be kinder to myself for not being perfect, as I would ideally be more an activist than I am today.
And yes the blatant genocide happening in Gaza, with most of the western world’s politicians turning a blind eye (or even aiding it) is just sickening and one of the reason it’s really hard to believe there’s in any way a peaceful, livable future on this planet. And really, does the human race even deserve its place on it?
The Swedish government is equally sickening. On so many levels. And mainly their stance on climate action. And biodiversity. The so called environmental minister is an ill-qualified joke, a liberal in a leach led by the extreme far right.
Swedish democracy has effectively been disassembled by conservative clowns. The focus is on rearmament, Nato, fossil fuel, new nuclear plants, eradicate wildlife (killing of wolf, lynx, bear) and it’s really very difficult to grasp that this is Sweden, this is happening and how do we make it stop.
The scene for Weltschmerz has just gotten very much wider as well as closer.
I’m ever so grateful for these fluffy tykes, showing me there are other things that can ease the pain of a world going completely bonkers - and then I haven’t even mentioned the madness of COP28, the craziness of the war in Ukraine, the drug criminality in Sweden, with its frequent bombings and shootings (yes really), hacker attacks, corruption spreading its vicious tentacles through our society etc etc etc. Armageddon has never felt this imminent. And yet most people act like it’s business as usual. Which is a mindboggingly weirdness all on its own imho.
Or maybe it’s a way to deny, reject that something is truly wrong with this world. If we act that everything is normal as it used to be, and not the new unpredictable normal, maybe things will be alright. And maybe I can just go on living like I’ve always done - eat meat, fly, drive, shop yeah. Our minds are weird, and not always in a wonderful way.
Sunday, December 31, 2023
happy, hopeful, healthy sparkly new year 2024
As we are saying farewell to 2023, for many of us a sadly disappointing and dispiriting year for various reasons, I also like to remember it as a year full of lessons and growth. Because what else can we take with us from a year as draining as this one?
I had such high hopes for a truly great year, after the chaos of 2022, but those hopes were firmly put to shame. Of course there were regular pockets of joy, those tiny glimmers of fun and awesomeness that help us survive the general bleakness. But at the end of 2023 I alas don’t feel I’m nearly where I had planned to be at the beginning of the year.
So for 2024 I really do hope things will get back on track, that I find my kind of people, and my purpose, more joy than only pockets of it, less worry and disappointment, more hope and happy times.
And so much more kindness, compassion and decency for the world and its sentient beings.
The future is vegan, so let 2024 finally be the year of healthy, insightful, kind, sustainable, peaceful choices by more people.
Thank you for the lessons 2023, welcome 2024, let’s bring peace and purpose to this world, let us make it a much better place to live and prosper in!
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Sunday, December 24, 2023
have yourselves a lovely little christmas 2023 ~
Hoping for a warm, kind and compassionate Christmas for most every sentient being on this planet - I know 2023 certainly hasn’t shown an abundance of human behaviour that deserves such care and concideration, but to hope most of us cling still. And other innocent animals deserve it, always.
Myself I’m alas feeling poorly again, with odd symptoms of weird things, so I might just have to find a doctor’s appointment when this weekend is over to hopefully sort it out. I’m so so so tired of feeling slightly off since the long flu in October… It will be a very low key weekend and lots of sleeping here.
As I haven’t been able to post a reply to the sweetest comment on the previous post, I will give my gratitude to and joy over it here instead, so dear That reader/writer I hope your holidays are/will be bright and beautiful.
Be kind, stay safe and warm ~
Sunday, December 03, 2023
thank you november, welcome december 2023
And happy Advent 1st!
This could lead to another lengthy post, but I like to keep it short and focus on three things I concider the highlights this past month, of late November and early December.
Wednesday, November 01, 2023
happy world vegan day and world vegan month 2023
There are lovely vegan food for literally every taste bud and for every wallet size, whether you like to cook yourself or eating out.
Going vegan is never ever a sacrifice, just pure joy.
I didn’t do any fancy celebratory cooking to mark the day, just a simple, quick plantbased chili served with brown rice. But it’s one of my favourite go to dishes that always makes me full and happy, so that’s alright. And with still not having fully recovered from the hellish flu, I do like to keep everything incl. food simple.
Go vegan! And marvel over the wonderful colours of autumn!