I'm going to become and obsessive compulsive

So I have the day off today, I've been for a scan on my stomach. There is apparently nothing the matter, which is good. I guess my stomach pains are just something that will keep coming and going, at least there is nothing clearly wrong.

I now have to go and drop a couple of disks off at Andrew's mam and dad's go to Sainsbury's to get some eco-friendly dishwasher tabs and rinse aid. It's my latest thing, reducing the un-necessary man made chemicals that we use. I've changed from washing liquid to an aqua ball and I've already started using my PitRok crystal deodorant...which is absolutely great, it has no fragrance but really stops you smelling, I actually like it better than any other deodorant because you don't get that stale deodorant smell when you are really hot. We're also using Ecover fabric softener and I want to try the dishwasher tabs and rinse aid. The dishwasher tabs are actually cheaper than Finish ones... I'm guessing they don't have glass protector and all that stuff...but as the whole point is to cut down on chemicals, I guess I can put up with dishwasher marked glasses.

That was a sideways track... but while I am on it... We are also trying to buy more locally produced fruit and veg and we have been going to W Fox and Son's at Elton Lane Gardens near Redmarshall. They have lettuces the size of your head, and it is far cheaper than getting it from the supermarket, the only trouble is that they are only open on Wednesday's and Friday's, but it's easier and less scary than getting parked to go to the market. I don't imagine it is organic... that will be the next step.

All this started after getting a leaflet with the update on my adopted WWF panda, Zhu Xiong, which said about tests that had been done on some "celebrities" which found that all of them had some harmful chemicals in them, which they were not aware of. David Baddiel was one, frankly the only one I was interested in, had traces of 36 man made chemicals in his blood stream. 36!

The locally produced veg thing came froma thing on the news about food miles. I also read this on the WWF website, The various ingredients of an average Christmas lunch may have travelled a total of 24,000 miles by the time they get to your plate. That is ridiculous! So at least even if it isn't organic it is less damaging to the environment for us to travel there and know where it is from, and obviously it is much fresher. I looked at veg deliveries, because I thought that would be better, but I think we would waste too much of it. We are definately better off driving there.

Jeeze.... I've been going on a bit again.... I'm off before the supermarket gets busy.