The PESH Deli - The drinks might be virginal, but that's about all...

[CurlyCasper]

Come in, come in to the new haven for diffed BESHies. I think a group effort is needed here (and I'm being a lazy preggo), so please add to the deli whatever you crave/love/can stomach.

Nominations are also open for sexy fathers we can hijack to serve our mouldy cheese and cured ham

And the best mocktail recipe wins...well, bugger all to be honest

Curly I bet you get to stuff yourself silly when you go home though! I must admit I never buy fresh unless they're in the reduced section or I'm in Germany.

Actually disappointed at the lack of berry bushes around home these days. My childhood memories contain much cut legs and berry juice all over hands, face, clothes. And literally being caught red-handed after mum told us not to go over the wall to raid the bushes next door Nom nom, indeed.

I found a wild orchard of plums once. Shame I don't like them. By wild, I mean they were on no-man's land (owned but not maintained) in the grounds of a castle ruin. they were just growing there happily year on year, with noone to tend to or pluck them. Of course that was back in those blissful childhood years when I danced with the pixies, paddled by a waterfall, tortured played with newts and frogs, camped under the stars and found a massive stash of porn in the woods.

Oh we have a victora plum tree in our garden which is just amazing. Also several apple trees which are rubbish other than for cooking/jelly/sauce etc, and a really nice conference pear tree. I just wish I could get the pears to keep. We also have lots of currants (white, black, red) but the bushes are not maintained and so we tend to not get much off them. We have some nice raspberry bushes but not enough. I will grow my own blueberries this season which I've not done before.

Frozen ones are the way to go - good idea. I've been buying frozen green veg - eg green beans - as they're British from last summer rather than imported, although I also buy twice a month a pack of Kenyan green beans to balance the carbon footprint/developing country trade thing.

I can spend ages at the supermarket trying to decide, for instance, whether organic milk in a non-recyclable tetrapack (no recycling where we are) is better than non-organic in recylable plastic. For some reason, though, YOB doesn't like shopping with me I can't think why.

When I brush the dog I put the fur out in one of those ceramic apples for the birds to use as nesting material. I wonder, if I trimmed the lady garden, should I put the clippings in there too? I don't like to throw anything away, if I can help it.

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So, which of you lot is planning on using not washable nappies? Now obviously I should point out that anyone planning to destroy their children's future by using disposables is dispikable and probably also has bad breath.

Anyone?

I obviously meant "not using" as opposed to "using not". Bizarre mix up there. Almost had a Yoda feel about it.

Oh carrots. So it's you who is responsible for the frightening smack habit of the Tetrapak heirs. Repulsive.

Well I've ooohed and aaahed over your cloth nappies before rots and personally I love them, however, as 'im indoors will be doing an enormous share of nappy-changing and he doesn't want them - is it wrong for me to force him to use them? If I use them I won't even WASH them because that destroys the environment... I thought I'd just hang them over the balcony and whack them with a hairbrush.

Btw... when I said "your cloth nappies" I er... um... it was nuffink to do with the special photos you sent me.

ski personally responsible, apparently!

Well, tis up to you, no pressure, but disposibles take around 500 years to break down - not to mention the raw sewage going into landfill - so when global warming hits and the sea level rises, and your little country is sitting in a puddle of your baby's poo, don't come crying to me.

Saying that, I did hear that they have a disposible nappy recycling centre in TN somewhere... don't know how it works or how eco it is though.

Wash the nappies? WASH? Just because they're called "washable" doesn't mean you wash them. Give them to the dog to lick off, then hang them till dry and as you say, beat them. Didn't do me any harm.

Alternatively, why not skip the nappies altogether?

www.nappyfreebaby.co.uk/

ski X post. Damn it women, don't tell everyone, they'll ALL want those photos.

Check yer email.

Women? How many are you?

Look laydees, and I know some of you are going to go NOOOOOOO at this, but, I was just thinking, like, you know, um, (oh just spit it out).

Sometime after our baybees are born - can we - you know - organise some kind of RW meet up? I mean, I know the world will end 'n' all but let's face it, it's buggered anyway, with all the blueberries I'm eating.

I know it will be tough for one of our non-UK based lasses so I was thinking somewhere near Leeds would be good coz there's cheap flights there from where she is .

Just a thought.

I will be in Leeds in September - probably - anyway...

But I don't want to be beaten for using disposable nappies - so maybe not...

I am genuinely LOL here at the thought of getting the dogs to clean the nappies! LOL = fucking howling obv! Anyway as far as underwater goes we're on the 5th floor on top of a hill. Skip nappies? um... we have carpets, I don't think so - even the dogs have their limits?

I would love a real-life meet-up and I'm happy to go anywhere as long as I don't have to hire a car and drive 5 hours which seems to be the norm. My easiest/closest airports are Dusseldorf and Cologne but of course Eurostar is a piece of piss for me too.

So London then.

Rofl @ Leeds. As IF!!! It's in YORKSHIRE dur.

iggy I promise I won't beat you - I'll just look at you as if you're single-handedly destroying the planet with your child raising choices. Fair?

whatever.

Anyway cunty London is clearly the way forward. Although I am notoriously flaky with meet up arrangements... I get THE FEAR.

Ugh, you slags. I am 35 years old and have a good 50p sized blotch of acne on my chin which hasn't shifted for 2 weeks. I look fucking ridiculous. Actually the spots never came so I'm thinking maybe excema. Have I got the lurgey or is this diffo related? Oh and before cunty says anyfink I'm not rubbing manfat on it.

ski I haz developed ezcema type patches too - sexy.

Dream Cream from Lush - brilliant for eczema. I use it on LC who gets it quite badly, works really well and smells nice, too.

London? Crikey, I haven't been to London in years. Or so. Actually I'm down there this weekend (eek). Anyway Yorkshire is SO much nicer.

LOL @ Lancs lady. Anyway, I may live in Yorkshire with two Yorkshiremen but I'm Not A Yorkshire Lass.

iggs I do understand that few people share my passion for nappies. I was introduced by someone as "the nappy lady" once. Even I wasn't that keen on that.

rots am surprised you would recommend a lush product...

Anyway - everyone has their 'thing' they get worked up about - mine is dog food... sadly.

incidentally - am just being grumpy re: nappies. I haven't actually thought about it in much detail (am in denaila about poo etc.) - but my mum did use terry cloth ones on us

carrots I like iggy am REELING from the Lush recommendation give the history of that particular topic around these parts. I will not give them any (more) money although I do have half a pot of dream cream in the bathroom as I think about it. It's a shame they're arseholes because I adore their Love Lettuce facemask, it makes me look 15 again.

I have never been to Yorkshire but jailbait and I were thinking about there if we were to return to the UK so I'm voting for there. I grew up (teenage years) in London so am very meh about it all.

carrots I have been drooling over cloth nappies (remember the rainbow fleece ones?) for upwards of 8 years... even throughout the wilderness years when my boyfriends had batteries...

Oooh higgy speaking of dog food, we've just gone over to feeding fresh chicken wings and I think the little one is definitely perkier. They both had their annual check-up yesterday and big-dog is apparently in fantastic nick considering her age and despite it - little-dog is a little fatty and I was shocked to learn she's put on 2kg in 15 months - which may not sound much, but she was 6kg a year ago and is now 8kg. This is 100% jailbait's fault as he's a sucker for big, sad eyes and gives her the corners from his sarnies/titbits and it's clear where that's gone!

ski am v. pleased to hear of your chicken wing action I love watching them crunch them... The sad eyes are tempting tho aren't they... my dog is not fussed for food that much, so we don't get sad eyes.. but my parents dog is the queen of it and my mum always gives in

ROFL @ you all re Lush.

Actually, despite my irritation at What They Did, which was clearly wrong and just pandering to the masses for the sake of creating publicity for themselves as opposed to really doing some good for a cause they believe in (as other causes in a similar vein (which I obv wouldn't approve of either but because I don't approve of what they're working for as opposed to how they do it) would do more to promote what they were saying they were promoting) I still think that a lot of what they do is good - ie packaging recycling/reduction, use of fair trade ingredients, many natural ingredients (although they still use SLS and parabens - watch out for that with eczema) and are better than a lot of them out there including The Body Shop who in my opinion sold themselves for 20 pieces of silver which was a nuisance as they were my other cosmetics company of choice before they were taken over by Evil Nestle and Evil L'Oreil.

And relax.

And I also have a Thing about Dog Food. Partly because my dog is a ponce and allergic to everything (including rice, duck and the other stuff they put into hypo foods). I do think that it's a great way to get rid of meat products that us humans are Too Good To Eat (apparently) but I do object to these disgusting dog foods which have about as much meat in them as a piece of paper.

ski also a love lettuce fan - suits my skin brilliantly. Don't try ocean salt - it took my face off .

So I still use Lush - better than much of the rest IMO and I had to just forgive their one indiscretion!