Tag: vegan
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It’s a collage
It’s a collage, that’s what it is, it’s a coll-fucking-age
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Old Heads Podcast – Welsh and fish and other stuff
Old Heads Podcast February 2019 Related Posts:Podcast, September 10th 2022 – Sorrow
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Podcast: Our Precious World
Related Posts:Podcast, September 10th 2022 – Sorrow
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Something New
There seems to be nothing there, but there are the uncountable billions of past experiences in this or other lives. Then there are the uncountable possibilities of future experiences plus of course the endless experiences occurring now. And out of this nothing something new has to emerge . . .
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An Ordinary Bloke writes about (not) being vegan
I’m just an ordinary bloke and I used to be a vegan. Is that a contradiction? Can you be a vegan and be ordinary? Can an ordinary bloke even be a vegan? What’s ordinary about being vegan? Well, it used to be impossible to be thought of as being ordinary and a vegan at the […]
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An Ordinary Bloke writes about Vegans keeping Cats.
As a vegan of over twenty years and a vegetarian of more than twenty years before that, one of the questions that has always perplexed me is why do vegans like to share their lives with and look after cats, particularly rescue cats. Cats are obligate carnivores – they must eat meat, their physiology is […]
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An Ordinary Bloke writes about Aliens, Drugs and the Nature of Reality
Here’s an audio recording of this piece – text below: Yesterday, after a breakfast of tea and toast with tahini and yeast extract we went to the Farmers’ Market to buy organic vegetables. We’ve been going to the market for years and once ran a stall there selling our own handmade soap and body products, […]
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Make the connection
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An ordinary bloke writes about ‘Lessons you learn’
An ordinary bloke writes about ‘Lessons you learn’ I was standing in the queue at Iceland, the frozen food store, yesterday. I was clutching a modestly-sized bag (700g) of McCain’s skin-on fries. We were having a dirty burger night and it was the last item on the shopping list. I’d already bought the Linda McCartney […]
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potpotmush
An accidental recipe cut potatoes and sweet potatoes into chip shapes and deep fry in plenty of oil until soft but not crisp – add some half chopped chestnut mushrooms wait until it’s obvious that the ‘chips’ are not going to get crusty but are in imminent danger of collapsing into mush scoop the potpotmush […]
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Add New Post
‘Add New Post’ This blog / website / whatever it is called now, wants me to add a new post every time I come here. If I do make the effort to add a new post it normally means I’ve got something specific to write about. Whether it’s one of my feeble attempts to market […]
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How much fruit and veg is ‘ten a day’
New research has indicated that people should eat 10 portions of fruit and/or vegetables every day if they want to achieve a longer and healthier life. I wondered what 10 portions would look like so I raided the fridge and fruit bowl and added fruit and veg until it weighed 800 grams, which, according the […]
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You are what you eat?
(An old poem: from around 1999) Do you want to be a vegetable, or a pineapple chunk? Would you like to be a rotten grape, continually drunk? Or if you wander in the woods and eat the fungus balls Does that mean that you’re a spore infinitesimally small? My mother likes a bit of fish […]
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A visit from The Magic Elf
This is an extract from one of my books. And now it’s the morning of March 15th 2016. One of the things that’s prompted this bit of live writing is my desire to reach 100,000 words. As I type I can see the word-count at the bottom of the screen and it says, hang on, […]
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Blodyn – Legalise Poo
Here’s a painting from nearly 15 years ago – one of the first I did. It was painted on the back of a placard/protest sign that I had previously used in a satirical community play I wrote called ‘The History of Llangennech – Part 2’ Blodyn has become a bit of an icon for me […]
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Stacked Vegan Pizza
I fancied making a pizza the other day but was fed up of those pale lacklustre crusts available from supermarkets so decided to make my own dough. I chose wholemeal bread flour and quick yeast since that’s what was in the cupboard, made the dough and used half of it to make a pizza base, […]
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Cute Rescued Animal or Food?
The hypocrisy of the animal rescue industry Whenever I see appeals for money or support for animal rescue charities the first thought that comes to my mind is ‘What do they feed the animals they rescue?’ I suppose in the case of naturally vegetarian animals the answer is vegetable material of some sort, but what […]
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St David’s Day in Wales
This is a piece I wrote this morning, on St David’s Day. If you would prefer to listen there is an audio recording at the end. If you believe the hype, the Welsh are rugby-obsessed lamb-eating choristers. As with most lazy stereotyping this is completely wrong of course. I’m as Welsh as they come and […]
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Half-Baked Potatoes
These are golden crisp outside and creamily soft inside. Cut baking potatoes in half along the length so that you have two flattish halves anoint with veg oil and sprinkle with seasalt. Place the potato halves flat side down onto a baking tray, cut a little cross in the top bulgy bit and bung into […]
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The pomegranate seed
I cut open a pomegranate and popped its seeds into a white bowl. They were vibrant and red, they glistened and said: look at us, look at us; we’re beautiful. Look at how we sit together, blush together, live together, give together. I had to agree; they were what they said they were. What about […]