Ok so how did this all start then?

Ok so how did this all start then? Has it happened has Anna really just flipped out and gone totally nutty? To be honest we knew it was on the cards. Well no Anna has not gone nuts. For a long time now we have been doing a bit of soul searching and trying to work out what it is that we want. 

1. ·         Where do we want to live
2. ·         What do we want to do with our lives

These are the two questions that we keep asking ourselves over and over again. We are both very clear on the idea that neither of us wants to work for “the man”. It’s funny because you look at TV series’ such as Reggie Perrin and the infamous The Good Life and these were issues that were bought up in the 70s yet for some reason it is still instilled in us that this is the norm and that this is what we should do. Work for “the man” and join “the rat race”. It is not that we are adverse to work, far from it we actually quite enjoy it, I mean after all it does give you a sense of worth and of being alive but not slogging your guts out for someone else.  The both of us just have a desire to work for ourselves but also to pay the mortgage off as early as possible and live as near as self sufficient as possible.

In fact at the moment we feel anti “big guy” in general. We were just getting to the stage where we were fed up of going to work to pay for the things we had to have because we were at work so couldn’t do them. Then having to go round a big supermarket with everyone else at the weekends. I am not saying that people who shop in supermarkets are stupid, mindless or soulless, but it just feels like that when you are walking around sometimes. It just feels like you are another lemming pushing the trolley around the aisles and then when you get to the checkout you get a young kid who can barely look at you let alone talk to you. I am not an old fogey either, I am only 31 but it would just be nice if the person at the checkout could at least smile! Anyway it is just a feeling that we have. We would like to get back some form of customer service, politeness and the really nice feeling you get when you shop in small, local independent stores. Trouble is there are not many of them and it is oh so convenient to just get everything in the one shop at the supermarket. It’s going to be tough but we are willing to try it for a while at least.

So as part of our journey to live greener, more sustainably, free-er, healthy, vegetarian lives, we are going to try and do as much of our shopping in those small independent shops. Have you read Dave Gorman’s America Unchained? Do! It is basically what we are trying to do only through the eyes and ears of a comedian oh and in America.

St Neots has a weekly market on a Thursday so I know I can shop there for my veggies. I also know that there is a family run farm shop in Little Paxton so that is veg sorted. Toiletries and cleaning products we will get from the Health Food Shop in St Neots, which is on Church Walk just off the high street. They also sell store cupboard items too so that should be us sorted. I think. I hope. I don’t know let’s see. I am actually looking forward and interested to find out what the flaws in the plan are. I am not a sadist, it’s just that I am looking for a little adventure and I am looking forward to actually living.

As for the other stuff, man who knows!