Peecycled batteries, low blood sugar, and a right dogs dinner!

In my quest to inform the world about urine therapy, I found today that Shazzie the Managing Director of Detox your world, actually will be covering it in her new book on ecstatic beings. Love her work, so I can’t wait for this next installment to come out.

Anyway the other daft bit of information I want to impart, is the tech news has gone wild over urine driven batteries. Yes they did take the piss, and that is to be expected, but they can be powered by fluids and that includes urine. The website has a link to the full article.

Currently reading about Low Blood Sugar by Martin L Budd, which I didn’t realise could cause so many symptoms. Up to one in five people can suffer from hypoglycaemia, which is a lot, potentially with symptoms that are similar to stress at times. To top this off it affects the adrenal glands, which can put those who are already stressed and not getting a nutritionally balanced diet, in an even worse position, causing further anxiety. By not eating the right foods, which you don’t tend to do when you are stressed, it makes the whole blood sugar imbalance even worse. I can now understand why people start to overeat, because the body is trying to rebalance itself. With so many of us living and working in a way which is so stressful, people are probably suffering from this and not even realising it. We need to change our lifestyles to a more calming one, with less consuming, and more being, wouldn’t that be nice?

The dogs are both stalking me waiting for their dinner to cool down, now making your own pets dinners is far easier than you can imagine. It is also far healthier, they eat stacks of veggies, seeds, and some grains, and different meats each day. It has no additives or any other rubbish in it that some manufacturer thinks is a good idea, and it hasn’t been sat around for months on a shelf. The dogs both love dinner, last night was lentils, with beef, and parsnips, and the bowls are clean. Today on the menu is left over bacon, potatoes, veggies from the juicing we did earlier, this is a great way to use them up, so they don’t get wasted, with their favourite, pearl barley. They love pearl barley, it is cooked so that they get stacks of water with it as a gravy, with the obligatory fish oil, nearly the healthiest dogs in town. Now raw dogs would be that but neither will give it the time of day! I am hoping Pottenger’s Cats doesn’t come true!

Making cider

Yes we are still…making cider! What a full time job doing this can be at times, I have put in my order for some cider vinegar which is the end product I will use. But it looks like R plans on making gallons of the stuff, now he has worked out how to make it far less labour intensive. He finally realised that he needed to pulp the apples before putting them into the press, he had been cutting them up pretty finely, but that wasn’t enough. Now they are pulped through the juicer it makes pressing them so much easier! He’s now waiting for the rain to stop before going to collect some more today.

Whilst we are waiting we have been making FD1’s dinners, and the dogs dinner has become quite interesting just lately, as she today will be getting turkey, beetroot, carrot, buckwheat and of course the apple pulp, I put in few herbs of rosemary, and sage, and it smelt lovely!

It has been so wet here just lately that the cereal crops in the fields near where we live are all rotting, I have no idea what they will do with them now, as they are all going black and definitely look the worse for wear. Terrible when you think about it, how much is probably going to now go to waste, when they could of been harvested at least 2 – 3 weeks previously. This probably means prices will increase for these commodities, strange how at one time we would never of noticed that at all, now we are very aware of the environmental factors affecting our foods. We had been also keeping an eye on the plantain plants to collect their seeds as you can eat them, we were going to mix them with the pendulous sedge to make oatcake type biscuits, but they are also now too wet and mostly rotting away. In fact lots of the woodland plants are rotting, we have noticed the only things that are doing well are mushrooms, which we are now keeping our eyes open for. We already have quite a lot of mushrooms dried, St Georges, Dryads Sadle, and Common Puffballs from earlier this year, so we still have them to keep us going.