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I am absolutely in favour of vegetables and there are some tasty recipes using plant based foods.🍅🥔🍆 🥗🥮🍜

When I first started out as a vegetarian I tended to eat the same things over again but I have since then been surprised by the variety and availability of other ingredients that can be found in shops, vegetable sellers or on- line. Alternative products like quorn or soya beans are good stand ins for meat. Quorn sausages are great for breakfast with eggs, baked beans and potatoes!

I am a big lover of vegetables 🥦🥒🍆🥑so thats a positive ! I used to hate carrots as a child but having had them presented in some very🥘🥬🧄🧅 interesting mouthwatering recipes so I was soon won over to the humble carrot and I now love eating 🥕🥕🥕 rainbow carrots too which are lovely!

It has been fun to experiment using lots of different types of vegetables to make some great recipes. For a time I went to the local vegetarian society where I learned to cook some vegetarian meals. After finding out about it I would definitely recommend a vegetarian diet. 

There are some great alternatives to meat eating like beans🧆🧆 ( I love beans!) which are great mashed together with other vegetables in pasties. Mashed and seasoned🧂🥫🍯 vegetables can be used as a good replacement for mince. I have also used this veggie mixture wrapped up in pancakes 🌮🥞🍲with spices or curry paste in, also topped with mashed potatoes for a shepherds pie. 🍲🧆 I 🧀🥔🧅
Really tasty! 

We just have to learn to be more adventurous and flexible  in our cooking. It doesn't have to be expensive you can obtain some cheap vegetables from some local vegetable growers, or from markets and farm shops

.1) I am vegetable lover first of all because I feel it is healthier to eat a vegetetable diet.🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

2) I like all animals and do not want them to suffer🐑🐄🐖🐇 

3) it is good for the planet 🌎and the environment so thats three very good reasons to be vegetarian. 🙂

That's it I finally sent off my EMA!
It was a race 🏃‍♀️against time to get it finished with everything👩‍💻 in order very difficult especially in another language!🇨🇵
But I managed it. whew! This day I will celebrate by taking a nice long leisurely walk in the country and take my brolly just in case it rains. 🌂🌤

All Good comes from God

All Evil comes from satan

Gods plan is unfolding

It is up to us to use wisdom to discern 

And choose the path of Love and peace.

(Apart from having to walk to do the shopping) Taking plenty of exercise is very good for the health and burns off calories and fat.

The more exercise  you do the better!

13 Reasons that have motivated me to leave my house go for a walk;

Good weather 🌞⛅🌤
not always possible, but if it doesn't rain it's ok🌫🌂🌄

To return library books📚 and borrow some more📚from library on the other side of village.

To pay bills💰at the post office 📮 (now inside newsagents!) And where I can use 🏧 £machine.

To take photographs outdoors which can later be sketched or made into collages or artworks .📷  🖼🌲

Being accompanied by a friend for purpose of socialising and walking together.

PUB        ⬅️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️
But beware you might end up in a cafe or pub! which would defeat the object of walking! 🍷🍷🍟🥘

To find out all the footpaths that lead back to the centre of town/village
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The dog needs exercise or I could ask to walk a friends dog!🐕‍🦺🦮🐩

To walk to the outer limits of town or village.

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And buy organic veges on the way.

To walk to  buy something from the furthest away shop!🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏪   🛍🛍

To collect some natural materials like bits of wood, flowers or twigs to decorate the home! And to go foraging!
🌿🍁🍂🍎🍃⚘🦋🍒⚱💐❌🐑 !

To go for a walk to the little church ⛪ to say a little prayer🙏 and commune🕯🕯with God  🎆

To go to the recycling point or collection bins to put something in to be recycled  🗑🗑🗑🍾🍶🧃🧂📑📃❌ 🛁

🌅 To walk to a good viewing point to see a sunset or sunrise🌄

Or walk to go 🦆🦅🕊 👀 birdwatching in the woods!

 
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I have eaten too much chocolate! so I MUST go immediately for a brisk walk around the block !

🍫🍬  =  🔴⚠️ = 🏃‍♀️

For all of us who love God ❤

" Since we live by the spirit, let us keep in step with the spirit"

(Galstions 5v 25)

Love, joy, peace,  forebearance, kindness, gentleness, having faith and self control.

(From the bible)

This morning I went for a brisk walk around the village and along the footpath past the cemetery and around the park. Flowers looked sad and wilted in the cold wind! Did some shopping on the way back home. It was busy at the local supermarket as it usually is on friday morning.
It was very blustery and lots of low rain clouds in the sky. It had rained during the night and looked set to rain again throughout the day. What happened to spring ? it's more like winter!
I will be starting on the typing up of my EMA essays this afternoon. I have been up most of the night doing the final translation, so this gives me the whole weekend to type up the two essays (I am a very slow at typing!) feeling tired at the moment. Going to have a coffee ☕or two to keep me awake. Hopefully will get it finished before the deadline of Wednesday. Let's hope I don't get any interuptions and will be able to complete it before the deadline.

La castration intellectuelle

Par le système capitaliste et

Les impondérables de l'existence

Contribue à la déshumanisation de tout le monde.

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love.
(1 John 4;16)

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Pleased with my effort today .  I tried  to write ✍what looks like a decent essay for part 1 also for part 2 the PDP. 📒
😴Feeling tired but 🙂happy with that. next is type   👩‍💻 it out on computer with a reference list. 📃Well that's the plan anyway but I may tweak it again a bit more but so far so good, over all it is looking ok.👌
Hope everyone is progressing     👍well with their studies. 🌺

Bonne contination.

📖🐑🦋🌺🐐🕊🌹☮🌈✝️❤

Today I am getting onto the final lap 🏎🛣for this years L222 module.    At the moment I am tackling the translation for the main EMA essay part on the "environment and economy."  🌍As usual it is about getting the word count right as well as accuracy of meaning. There is more than one way of rendering the same meaning. Will be listening to audios 🎧📻 again and reading 📖 vocabulary notes. There is also the PDP to write out and I can get this from tutors feedback plus some notes of my own.

Must keep on keeping on!

What a day it has been!
Another 💧Leak in the bathroom, a missing cat🐈 mix up with a missing parcel 🎁 something I ordered weeks ago  completely disappeared ! then having on top of it all to vote  ✍  but for who? the least of the two evils? 🥶👺 I feel confused? Red or blue, yellow or green?

Then there was a complete mix up with a doctor's appointment.
Dr cancelled my son's phone appointment 🩺👩‍🚀without letting us know, then we found a vague text message telling us to ring the surgery back.only after the 🕒 appointment time had passed ! 🕓 I  Rang surgery they said they didn't know, will try to find out what had happened 🕟 but then she finally rang ☎️ us 1  3/4 hour later.
Had to hang about 🕠 waiting since 3 until 5.30 not knowing .

In between all this chaos of politics ,voting and doctors appointments  I have to find time to study! Managed an hour mostly reading and tidying up notes in notebook.

Missed my walk to the park this afternoon. Good job went to shop earlier on🏪 this morning then post office then had to ring ☎️ about🎁 parcel. Fed up🙄now! I 🕡

Had to wait for 🕕 husband  to 🕡come home, to make tea, so we could then dash out together and register our vote! ✍🕖 I still don't  know why I bother!🕗 I think I need a lie down. lol! 🕘🛌

My garden is where I like to go and sit out in when the weather is good and when the sun is shining. A garden is very good for mental well being.
In the bad weather, like today, I like to just sit and look out at it through the windows. My home has two gardens.
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At the front I can see a large green lawn. There are trees at the right hand side, well maintained by my neighbours as they like to have plenty of light 

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There is also a beautiful display of peonies 🌺 on the right hand side, with the most brightest, pinkest flowers ever. It really cheers me up every spring to see this. A pink cherry blossom tree is at the far bottom right  corner of the garden which is very pretty and is now in bloom.  Sadly it doesn't last for long.
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To the left of the lawn beyond the footpath there is a picket fence along which there is a border with various flowers. This changes throughout the year.
At the moment there are the marigolds, daisies, yellow proimroses, blue forget- me- nots, 
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Near the front door is a trellis where red roses are just coming through at the moment, by the summer hopefully, there will be a wonderful display of red roses, all around my front door. 🌹🌹 🌹       A bright green bench overlooks the lawn on the left..🌳 🛋🌳

I have a cottage garden beneath the front window.  There is a large rectangular border with different pots of plants some planted last year and some this year.  Hopefully these will soon all be coming out in the summer.
Rows of bright red Geraniums, pink geraniums & whites. purple and white. 🌸🌼🌻⚘

🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲The back garden is much more secluded, and is more private for sitting in,  as it is surrounded by lots of tall trees, some forming a natural canopy under which is a pic-nic table.
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There is a patio area in front of the french window with rattan seating and plants. There are pots of plants around the patio area.  In front of this a small lawn with small plum tree that holds the bird table.

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Beneath the tall evergreen trees
there are placed two white chairs on the small lawn with tubs of flowers either side of them. There is a pebbled area to the right of footpath with lots plant pots some flowering, and a fountain.

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The best feature of the back garden is the seclusion and all the huge overhanging trees at the side(needs lots of attention!) but it's good because it just feels like I'm living in the woods!
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