For once Rachel Reeves came across as human, but clearly out of her depth. Her last budget hit small businesses hard.Take money from the poorest, another hit.
I reflected on my father. 101 years old, a veteran of WWII Bomber Command, dumped in a care home where he does not wish to be, robbed of his life savings. Not allowed out to mark VE Day or to attend an event for Operation Manna, dropping of food to the starving Dutch in which he participated. This is how we treat our veterans
Fascism is once again on the rise in Europe, and in the UK.
Genocide is carried out in Gaza. The world stands idly by.
Have we forgotten the lessons, why do we mark Armistice Day?observer.co.uk/news/opinion…
We are what we eat. What we eat impacts our environment, the local economy, and the welfare of animals.
Lunchtime Mint Lane Cafe, two pamphlets had appeared on this theme, asking people to question where their food came from. A qr code for further information, a food conference that took place during the week.
The Impacts on Your Plate #chooselocalfood #eatlocal #ShopLocal
Lincoln is a food swamp, crap corporate chain eateries, disgusting junk food takeaways and binge drinking bars. We need to do better.
Lincolnshire is an agricultural county, Lincoln the county town. Lincoln lacks a market. The nearest markets, south of the county in Stamford every Friday or across the River Trent in Nottinghamshire Ruddington first Saturday of the month.
We are all experts on food. We all eat.
Over 90% of information on nutrition on-line is incorrect.
When a supermarket claims a food is healthy, without exception it is not.
Ultra-processed foods are killing us. It now exceeds smoking as the leading cause of death. We should treat ultra-processed foods as we treat tobacco.
hazard warnings
ultra-processed food tax
no sponsorship of sporting or cultural events
no promotion
Blue Zones are unique isolated areas in the world where the people live to a healthy old age. Key factors: diet, exercise and community.
Singapore has created Blue Zone 2.0. Green spaces, elderly cared for in the community not dumped in care homes, access to healthy food, exercise encouraged.
Singapore found education of little value. Instead create the environment where healthy food choices are made easy.
Singapore created an app, that not only counts steps, but rewards those steps. Vouchers to be spent on healthy food. [see National Steps Challenge]
Walk, don’t drive. Reclaim the Streets.
Through reclaiming the streets, we are operating at the interface between business, environment and society, a component part of Doughnut Economics, where the local economy is designed to be regenerative and distributive, with people and the environment at its heart. We kick cars out of our town centres, we plant trees, we improve the ambience, we create a space where local businesses and communities can thrive, breathe clean air, or simply relax with a good coffee, read a book, sit and watch the world go by. [see Reclaim the Streets]
Adapt Mediterranean habits. Slow down. Friends meet over a coffer or wine. Not to get pissed. Arrange to meet friends for a coffee or a glass of wine in an independent coffee shop where they care about coffee not in a bar. No phones.
There should be a presumption in planning against Drive-Thru fast food takeaways, building on green field sites and flood plains.
Why are some areas bad, others good? What can we do to elevate the bad areas?
Don’t use food deliveries. Learn how to cook, or go out and eat. On-the-spot fines for riding through the pedestrianised city centre, ignoring traffic lights and road signs. Illegal e-bikes and e-scooters, seize and destroy.
Pedestrianised areas should be traffic free.
Food miles are simplistic. Riverford found they could extend the seasons by heating greenhouses, but it was less carbon intensive to truck in from Europe.
Eat smart.
Poor health: diet, lack of exercise, stress.
Poor health is costing the country billions of pounds. It’s not only the cost to the NHS, it’s also loss of productivity.
Buy fresh fruit and vegetables local. Eat seasonal fruit and vegetables. Support local independent businesses.
fruit and vegetable stall in the High Street Wednesday Friday Saturday
Fresh From the Fields Bailgate
S Sharpe and Daughter Langworth
surplus fruit and vegetables Mint Lane Cafe
Local family butchers
Pepperdine Sincil Street
Redhill Farm shop Bailgate
Support local independent coffee shops where they care about coffee.
Coffee Aroma
Madame Waffle
Vestry Hall Coffee
Coffee is healthy. High in polyphenols and fibre.
Always check the ingredients. A long list, with names you don’t know, let alone can pronounce, put back on the shelves.
Sourdough bread is healthy. Supermarket shrink-wrapped white bread is not.
Money spent with local businesses is recycled within the local economy. Money spent in a corporate chain is drained out of the local economy leaving us all poorer.
Support regenerative farming.
Eat at least 30 plants a week. Eat the rainbow. Five a Day is dated.
Add fermented foods to your diet.
Participate in the three week three fermented foods a day trial. Record each day: mood, hunger, energy. Start on the first day of the month. Psychological effect of fresh start day, a restart point.
Try a kimchi pancake from Little Korea. Delicious.
Breakfast is not cereal in a bowl. That is decades of brainwashing by Big Food. We then feel hungry, due to the sugar spike followed by a sugar crash. We then snack on a chocolate bar brought to us by Big Food.
Try muesli from Lincoln Eco Pantry, gold top milk (never unhealthy skimmed milk), fresh or dried fruit, a banana, Greek yogurt, maybe add kefir.
Keystone behaviour. If we start the day with a healthy breakfast, or the first meal of the day, it affects our behaviour for the rest of the day.
Healthy dessert. In a bowl, fresh and dried fruit, a good portion of Greek yogurt, sprinkle on top granola, around the edge, peices of dark chocolate.
Walk from Nottingham Railway Station along Carrington Street over the Nottingham Canal through Broadmarsh Garden into Lister Gate to Old Market Square and Hockley, it is as though on a dodgem track.
Illegal e-scooters and e-bikes, rental e-scooters and e-bikes, delivery riders.
There was allegedly a Police blitz, but if there was , I saw no evidence of this Police action. And if there was, long overdue.
I usually exit the side entrance of the Railway Station, yesterday, the train over ten minutes late, I exited the front of the station through the ticket barriers.
Crossing the road on a pedestrian crossing, several dumped Lime rental e-bikes as I approach the bridge, one dumped on the bridge.
Rental e-scooters and e-bikes, delivery riders, straight across Canal Street ignoring a red light, not a single rider dismounting and walking once they entered a pedestrianised area.
Lime rental e-bike dumped outside Halifax.
Walking through Hockley, several near misses.
Delivery riders masked up to hide their identity.
Challenge any of these riders, receive abuse and threats of violence.
There needs to be action by Nottinghamshire Police and Nottingham City Council.
Terminate the rental e-scooters and e-bikes trials . In the meantime, impoundi dumped on the streets, £250 recovery fee, £50 daily storage fee.
Riding through pedestrianised areas, on the footpaths, ignoring road signs and traffic lights, on the spot fines. Repeat offenders, criminal prosecution, destroy what they are reading.
Delivery riders, immigration status, detain and deport if Illegal.
Illegal e-scooters and e-bikes, confiscate and destroy.
Change in legislation to stop import and sale of e-scooters. If it is illegal to ride on public roads, why are they on sale?
It was not so long ago, Bonfire Night, huddled around a coal fire. The last decade, warm.
Bonfire Night yesterday, and today, exceptionally warm, 17C. This is not normal. Or maybe we should describe as the new norm.
First week of November, Nottingham 5C above average temperature for November.
Train to Nottingham running over ten minutes late, the new norm. Held twice at signals, then waiting outside Nottingham Station for a platform.
No WiFi on the train, then WiFi after Newark.
Phone charger, two power banks, three different cables. Topped up power banks, then phone.
The usual nightmare, illegal e-scooters and e-bikes, delivery riders, rental e-scooters and e-bikes. Carrington Street, ignore red lights shoot across Canal Street, ride through pedestrianised streets. Apparently there was a Police blitz, long overdue, but I saw no evidence.
Excellent espresso and iced matcha latte in Vibe.
I learnt The Wandering Goblin had reopened. But 20 minute walk from the city centre. Maybe visit another day.
Looked in The Cheese Shop in Flying Horse Walk, picked up an excellent Cornish Camembert cheese.
Wellbeck sourdough loaf from Bar Iberico.
Lunch at the Ugly Bread Bakery.
Timemore grinder in Cosmos. £120. A lot more expensive than I thought. I expected around £80.
Cosmos empty, Despatch busy, at least outside.
Cappuccino from Effy . Excellent baked goods.
Train from Nottingham busy, but at least I had a seat.
When I collect my belongings from overhead rack, hit by bad dizzy attack. The fourth time this has happened. Dizzy attacks are going worse.
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