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2006 -- February's journalGo Veronika1st Feburary -- Extraordinary Breastfeeding: Channel 4, Wednesday 1 February, 9pm. My goodness. Had to even keep Evie awake during this, didn't want to miss a drop of it. My heart is bursting with pride for Veronika, I'm so amazed at her commitment to motherhood and parenting, and inspired at how she sees it as her number one priority, to the extent that she allowed her girls to self-wean. I always thought I'd do child-led weaning, as many of my friends have, and as they have experienced, it's happened around age 4 or 5. It seems to be earlier for the boys. Not as you'd imagine, eh! Now, I never thought that child-led weaning could happen at age 7+, I just didn't know it existed. However, in tonight's programme, V and her youngest showed otherwise. Absolutely amazing. I was looking forward to this documentary for so long, and it really delivered. Am so happy that Channel 4 continues to be the voice of real people. Now, onto the prelude -- Richard and Judy are on Channel 4 every weekday from 5. I switched on after getting Evie to night nights (off nursery due to conjunctivitis) in her pram. V was due on, and it was great as she was the first story, her and another mother from said documentary. I loved what she said, how she spoke and the message. And I do love R&J, always have, for their ability to listen, not judge and not be sensationalist. Of course, as Little Britain fans, they mentioned Bitty, and V knew what they were on about but said she didn't have a telly. Richard laughed going "I took a bet that you didn't have a telly!". And V goes "That's because I'm weird, aren't I?". And I thought about this, and I thought about me and Evie, and I don't know where I am. I straddle all parts of life. I have a telly, and watch about 30 mins a day on average. Some days it's never on, some days I watch a vid, some days I put it on the music channel to clean up to (does that count? It's just nice to get a bit of eye candy when The Robster comes on). Am not a hippy or a dropout or any of that, but am so into conscious natural living In The Modern World. Anyway, have decided that's why I don't have a man thing, they're either totally left brained and that doesn't do it for me or they're all kundalinid out in their right brain and that really doesn't do it for me. And then I think "Sting but younger." Must exist. Must stay positive. Then I see these women feeding their babies for years, and know it's right, and think "What man would put up with that?" and then I think "The right one". Ooooh, I do get on a discussion with myself with this stuff. So, to conclude... V did a great job, am so proud, and hope everyone who's into natural parenting now buys her mag coz it's fab. Oh, and me and Evie are currently mad fer watermelon, galia melon, and raisins at the mo. She's also discovered drinking water from a pippette and calling it booboo. Not to be confused with the poo poo I found when I opened the washing machine today. I think maybe Sue found a used nappy, didn't see the poo, put it with the dirty clothes, I put it in the machine, didn't see the poo, washed it. When opening the machine door, imagine my surprise when I was faced with what looked like a goji berry raw food bar. I did laugh, then put it in the bin. Evie was so convinced it was a food bar that she tried to retrieve it from the bin and cried when she couldn't get it. Raw food in, raw food out, eh. I'm attempting potty training at the moment. Evie now has knickers that she loves, and a potty that the cloth which wipes pee pee off of the floor and nappies go in to. One day she may get the connection. Who knows. Hope she doesn't wait til she's 7! Early spring?2nd February -- Oh, the seasons are a'changing, and a bit faster than normal. Got spring cleaning head on, and spent some of last night organising my raw links, as they were all over the place. Then Sue came and beautified my house today while Evie helped by throwing nuts at her. Then, after having neglected Vera for a while, I took her to a carwash and me and Evie sat eating raisins and brazil nuts while we watched Vera come up a treat. Am now looking at office thinking that phase two of The Great Office Clean Up is about to pounce. Mutha's going to come over and help me next week, but I may make a start tonight as Evie's totally zonkered in bed. Roses round the doorI've been meaning to write about this for a while. I always dreamed of living somewhere with roses round the door. I love the thought of it. Anyway, when I moved here, there were yellow climbing roses round the door. Beautiful. Yellow roses are significant to me as they're the ones that Steve used to buy me, and I took yellow roses to his funeral. Since he died, me and my mate that was like a sister to him often feel his presence. We've felt it a bit recently with some things that have happened. Anyway, the thing is, these roses aren't normal, because they're always in flower. I saw one in December and pondered on it, then when it died I thought that was that, just a fluke, But on Tuesday, Evie and her gran went to pick me some flowers from the garden (as they do every week, bless them), and what did they pick? A yellow rose in bud from round the door. I'm blown away by this, and feel very protected by it, too. Yellow roses round the door in Jaunary, who'd have thought it? The angels are here!And another thing that I've been meaning to write about... Way back in September, me and Annette were listening to Doreen Virtue's CD on angels, and how you can ask them for anything, and they'll deliver in the way that's the most appropriate. They'll often give you more than you've asked for, she says, as they're just so happy to help. So I bought myself an angel book, where I wrote down "Angels, please xxx". You get the drift. So my first one was for my angels to find my driving license from when I moved. You are supposed to get it altered with your new address before 2 weeks are up, and I searched and searched everywhere for it. Couldn't find it. Got a bit peed off at angels, as I thought this is an easy one for them, what about when I ask them to find my man for me? If they can't find driving license, then man has no hope... Anyway, just before Xmas, as I'd had my office decorated, I moved my desk round. I just looked in my in tray -- the in tray that's always there -- and my driving license was in it. Who put it there? Not me. I don't keep personal stuff in my office. Oooh, those angels! So then obviously I wrote to them asking for man, and seeing as they took about 3 months to find driving license, I don't know how long they'll take to find man! Am sure they will, though, and that's the main thing. Well they shake their heads and they look at me as if I've lost my mind3rd February -- I'm sitting here buying some fab new sideboards for my lounge off of th'internet, with John Lennon on (on the stereo, not on the sideboards, but there's a thought...). Anyway, he's going "Well they shake their heads and they look at me as if I've lost my mind... blah... blah... I just had to let it go". Anyway, the song's all about removing yourself from mainstream life, and how you get judged and looked at funny. Like you're no longer a person with feelings. It's the opposite, really, isn't it? You're more of a person with more feelings, not blocking them out with distractions all over the place -- allowing yourself to feel the stillness of being. And I've heard the song so many times, and it does always touch me, but it touches me more today after listening to the aftermath of Veronkia's documentary. My mates who *think* were all so excited by it, and then there are those that just have assumptions and judgements, without looking at the facts. "Oooh, her husband's disgusting" -- er, the only person I know that wouldn't drink their partner's breastmilk was Matt (but then we weren't really together by then anyway...)! Every other bloke I know did it. Every one. Oh, but is "admitting it" something a man shouldn't do? Best to steal it from a cow and cook it before consumption. And no matter how many times experts say that full-term breastfeeding lasts from about 4-7 years, people in the UK are still saying Veronika is wrong (and worse) for doing it. Why? Not thinking? Not being able to accept something so far removed from their reality, and certainly not accepting that their reality is just one of many? And all the time they do this, they take a sip of tea with stolen cow's milk in it. Best to steal milk from another animal than to have it given lovingly from your mother, the woman who birthed you. What's the other one? Why can't breastfeeding women do it discreetly? Why should they? Who gave man the right to parade his moobs and nipples around all over the place, on the building site at work and on the beach and park at play, when there's no actual *need* for them to get them out? Then there's woman, suppressed even by her own kind who has every reason to get her boobs out -- to feed her dependant young -- and she's told to do it discreetly. Must be to stop those paedofiddilyacs, eh! Well, here is one woman who won't do it discreetly, I never have and I never will. My boobs were made for this glorious moment, and they won't do it just behind closed doors. They certainly have no other function at the moment, and even if they did, as Veronika says, they can multitask! So what's the point of this particular rant? Well, first off, it's not a rant, it's an ongoing feeling I have about having to be part of this society as I've yet to find another. Just because the majority of people choose to suppress their souls every which way they can, I don't have to be part of it. And I don't have to subject Evie to it. It's made me more determined to create a big self-sufficient community. Do you want to see my sideboards? 10th February -- oh, been a bit quiet this week. Becky, my new employee was over here, organising my office. Very fab girl and a great asset. She's at the Great Yarmouth office/shop normally, but I told her I'd have to borrow her every six months to give my office a going over. I just don't have any organisational skills in that department, and have spent the last 8 months or so shaking my head at the state of the place. Funny, coz my computer is as anally organised and backed up (not like a colon, like on a CD) as you could get... One thing that's not great about Becky is that she's in love with Robbie. Now, fine, but if he walks in our shop (like he would), he'd see this gorgeous little young pretty girl and I wouldn't be there to distract him. But, as I create my own reality, I actually am going to have him knock on my door in Cambridge. Really. Anyway, as her boss, I told her she'd have to get in the queue if Robbie came to visit. Only fair, I think. Says she who hasn't even sniffed a man in so long she could officially be a nun. Becky's right into the raw thing, and so we had fab puddings, smoothies, salads and raw chocolates for three days. Oooh. Does life get better? We worked til 11pm with Robbie cranked up on th'stereo, and all was great in Shazzieland. That's something I totally love about my house... my office is in the house but in a converted bit, so Evie can't hear any of the noise while she sleeps. Love having it all totally going on and thinking of my little poppet dreaming of bouncing on the bed with blueberries and looking at the banana clouds outside. Had a weird few days with other stuff, all I can say is I've been watching the ducks... wonderful, it was, then it wasn't. Now it just was. Not eaten anything to write home about recently. So not into juicing this month. Think it's coz Evie suddenly likes smoovies, but they're so calorific -- like Udo's Oil, hemp seeds, bananas, cashew butter, and all the superfoods. She totally suddenly loves them, and they're so easy to make in the Vita-Mix. Must get juicing soon, though as house is almost full of carrots. Clap the birds
OK, so some of you asked to see my sideboards. "They're a bit modern" said Matt's mum. Like I should have brown veneer MDF or something... Anyway, really glad I just got them, as the one on the right isn't available anymore, like 2 days after I bought it. Phew. I'm a lucky girl. Lucky in sideboards, unlucky in love. That's what mutha used to say as I used to be a bit of a card shark, she'd go "lucky in cards, unlucky in love". See, all mutha's fault that I'm a singleton. Played cards with Auntie Shirley and Uncle Ray at Christmas, for nuts, as we didn't have cash on us (we're all the queen, we are). Ray was the card shark then. He had a whole squirrel's houseful of nuts by the end of the night. So the low sideboard will have a telly on it and just like ONE ornament, and I think I might put a yoga mat over it when not watching it -- that's what Woody Harrelson and Laura did on their telly when I stayed at their place in Maui a couple of years ago. Looked perfect. And the high one is for my stereo -- v important equipment. Will not make Wiggly Woo happy though, as she likes to fiddle with the stereo's volume and boogie her butt off. Oh. Can't tell you why, but if you're gonna be around Brighton on March 12th, then we could all meet and have a fab natter. Will tell you as soon as I'm allowed. Now, need to get some work done, so must go. Much love to you... xxx Free love all February longYou may have seen my free February campaign on my work's web site -- well here it is on my Shazziesite... Fab pressie, this, but only 3 to give away, so get in quick... You may know that my lovely mate Tish has created Radiant Children, well she's got a fab ebook worth £7.95 (I read it a while ago, it's so practical, beautiful, inspirational!)... and she's giving away 3 to my readers. Love her. Please be a natural parent that gives me a quote that I can use for promotional reasons... The best 3 emails will get the book... If you're not a winner in this (but a winner in life, eh!), please buy it and support Tish's work, it's mucho importante.
You're a winning superstar!And the winners of Shazzie's detox delights are as follows. Expect your copy very soon!
Sorry to those who didn't win this time. I really appreciated everyone's feedback (except for the one that was obviously someone making it up and being daft). Keep trying as I get more freebies each month to give away! What you wantThis is a summary of the emails I received, to make this *your* journal...
Some specific questions...What do you think about commercial raw treats? How did you heal emotionally with raw food? Can you do yoga or exercise with a young child? What do you think of supplements? Can people on a budget eat raw food? Lurve, lurve, lurveFebruary 14th -- Happy Valentine's day! Loving everyonePreparing for Valentine's day, I spent the other night emailing all my closest friends, telling them why I love them, and how much it means to me. A great time to do it, while love is in the air. Evie got a Valentine's card and a lovely fluffy heart through the post, from her Gran. Went to Tesco's today and all the flowers had been bought, there were empty buckets everywhere! Spending the day with my Lovely Mrs Renny, Brandon and Evie. Will be enjoying the sunshine in the park, and feeling a warm heart listening to Evie giggle. My Valentine's message to you: Love everyone as much as you love your lover. And remember: "I love you if you love you" Love!!!! Shazzie xxx Shame on you, Trisha Goddard17th February -- Phew. You know when something happens, and you're like "OMG", really? Well, it did. And I've been given permission to print this, so I am. Not to give bad stuff energy, but to warn anyone who's been approached by the Channel 5 show "Trisha Goddard" to be aware of the dirty tricks they play to get a story that's not even true. I encourage you all to spread this around, send it to your local and international papers, and post it to forums. This behaviour by trash TV execs must stop, as it's a violation of people's rights, and a gross misrepresentation of the truth. After the wonderfully eye-opening Extraordinary Breastfeeding programme on Channel 4 a couple of weeks ago, Veronika has been inundated with offers from the media for interviews and more. Last week, the producers from the Channel 5 show, Trisha Goddard rang her. They told her they wanted her to do a show on "extended breastfeeding". They explained that Channel 5 had changed the format of the show and it was no longer like the old "Trisha" show. They explained that they realise how important "extended breastfeeding" is, and they wanted to portray it in a sensitive and positive light. Veronika ageed to do the show. They talked to me about it, and told me exactly the same thing, that it's to be a sensitive portrayal of "extended breastfeeding". On Tuesday evening, Veronika received a call from the show, confirming they wanted her on. I didn't receive a call, and thought it was because Evie's only 18 months old, which isn't really news in the breastfeeding world. I was quite glad, really, as I had such a lot to do this week. Of course it'd have been great to go and talk about breastfeeding, raw food, veganism, natural parenting, and how they all intermingle, but I knew that Veronika, Tish, and Holly (who were all chosen to be on stage) would do a great job. I emailed the guy who I'd been talking with on the show and said that I know the show will be fab... I was keen to hear how it had gone, so when I received an email from Veronika, I was shocked... Read on, in her words (reprinted and edited for clarity with permission): [Veronika]Well, in a nutshell, I can not believe that people can be so unethical and completely lack integrity! and that they can actually sleep at night! The producer told me it was me, Holly and Tish on stage... Every time I asked if there was any one else on stage, any one with opposing views he said "NO, we're broadening our shows and want to do a sensitive programme on breastfeeding, It is an important issue so we don't want anyone speaking out against it". A couple of hours before filming we're told that Tish is on stage with three glamour models (two of who never breastfed and were 'bullied' by the midwives to try. They didn't try because they said breastfeeding is NOT natural..not normal). Holly and I had somehow ended up in the audience. I spent two days away from my work to be in the audience! I was miked and they wanted me to 'yell' out
and cause trouble. Their resident doctor/psychologist or whatever she is had NO knowledge of breastfeeding or what breastmilk does to develop the brain and they used her as the expert. what an insult. I'd been told that the audience were predominately women from the ABM, yet they were predominantly anti-breastfeeding. They set Tish up saying she was breastfeeding an 8 year old. Just before the show i saw the assistant producer's notes with the headline I ENJOY BREASTFEEDING MY EIGHT YEAR OLD and said "that better not be about me, because I never breastfed Eliza at 8". He said no, it isn't about you.. When the producer came, I pushed her on it and she said it was Tish. Holly are I were gobsmacked. I said to the producer that was bullsh*t, I would know if that was the case. Holly said "I'm her best friend, for god's sake! She doesn't breastfeed her 8 year old child." And then we knew that it was all stiched up. And THEN we had to sign contracts agreeing that it could be shown around the world for the next seven years and we were NOT allowed to do ANY TV shows for the next SIX months, so I crossed out the prohibition of more tv work before I signed it, because of all the work I have in the pipeline. I'm incensed that people can be so lacking in integrity...I'm glad, for you, that you weren't there. Love V [End Veronika]So blow me down. I was sooo glad I wasn't there, too. But really feel for these three friends of mine. How is it legal to do this? I dunno. Maybe it's not but they just rely on the fact that most people won't sue them... Maybe someone will one day... Maybe Trisha Goddard will get some integrity and present a proper show that's based on facts, not made up lies. Fab officeOn a v positive note, I just came back from my new office/shop thing. Oh, it's really taking shape. Jennie's in there, with her corner and the stock sorted. Everything else is chaos, and will be amazing by the end of next week. Very very exciting. I really didn't know we had that much stock -- like rows of it, all beautiful and vibing at the highest level whilst still being visible to the human eye ;-) Oooh! 18th February -- Hey guys, just a quickie before I go to get a sauna. Evie and me took a walk to the field this morning, like on feet, like a big girl. Such a sunny day... She gets her own shoes out of the cupboard now, and sits on the step with them in her hand waiting for me to put them on. V cute. Then she decided to walk down the road opposite mine, to stare for 10 minutes at the man laying block paving. After assimilating that, we went home and hung out in the back garden for a bit, and then went for a walk in the pram with mango. Evie yellow face and sticky hair. Now, yesterday, I made the weirdest breakfast, but we kind of loved it. I didn't have much left at my mums after a mammoth juicing sesh the day before, so I juiced about 10 carrots, then put them in the Vita-Mix with a big dollop of Luscious butter, a dessertspoon of Gillian McKeith's superfood, and a splash of Udo's oil. Very odd combo. It tasted a bit like peanut butter soup. Anyway. Evie drank a whole glass full all in one go, while Dean was holding her. She didn't draw breath. Loved it. Then Becky came over and had a glass, me and mum had a glass. Jennie just stuck to her green tea! It was odd, nice, odd, nice... you know, like oddnice.... Ask ShazzieOne of the things you asked for in the January emails, was a way to ask me questions. Appreciating that I'm busy and have written so much in my books, you can't seem to get enough of me! So, I've set up this page today, and look forward to your questions. Right. Sauna. Emails shmemails21st February -- Arun came over for tea last night. We've not had a good old natter for ages, so it was totally fab, and we've promised ourselves to do more of it, which helps me towards my goal of being more sociable this year. Anyway, we got onto the subject of emails. How ridiculous they all are, and how you'd never write that many letters to people and how they clog up your inbox so much, which is really clogging up your life and probably your left kidney or something. So I decided to take action today, and go through outstanding emails. It'll take some time, as there were ones dating back to mid-2004 -- shame on me for being so slack/busy!! So, I'll do a month a day until I'm up to this month, then I'll set aside time at the end of each month to go through any outstanding ones, or bin them. No excuse. Feels better already. Took Evie swimming yesterday -- she's not been for a while, and didn't know what to make of it all. She monkey-linked my arm and wouldn't let go for about 30 minutes, then she got all confident and I had her kicking her legs by the end of it. Very sweet, my baby. I'm so in love with her, and so very very grateful to her. Did I mention that Cambridge now has a juice bar? Not been yet, but it sells wheatgrass and everything. Must take a peek next time I'm in town. V progressive for Cambridge, which is actually full of bookshops and coffeeshops. And both together quite often. We've had a couple of spirulina mornings, am really wanting it at the moment. We've been Vita-Mixing 4 bananas, 1 heaped teaspoon of spirulina, 2 teaspoons of maca, 2 teaspoons of mesquite, 1 dessertspoon of Udo's Oil, 1 dessertspoon of cashew butter, blue manna, and a pint of water. Evie just necks this stuff like there's no tomorrow. She's so into smoothies now, which is fab as I can get all these superfoods into her without a faff. She also ate a whole kiwi as we were making a pear and kiwi pie, and she ate a load of the base, that had gojis, raisins, spirulina, sunflower seeds, apricots and a load of other stuff. Just like a cooked kid licking the mixer off of a cake before it goes into the oven ;-) Bless. Blogs almighty28th February -- Now, if blogs had existed when I started my journal, over 6 years ago (ever the pioneer!!), I'd have used them to make my extraordinary life public. But they didn't so you get Shazzie's Journals. However, there are some great ones out there, and our Veronika's just joined the blog ranks. Check her out! Can't write for long, poppett's ill. She's got teething fever and flu all at once. In a little haze in bed. Don't like leaving her. Hope she's better soon. Little flower. Muth said I should give her a disprin! Had a fab pot luck on Sunday, and John brought his slides from his Malaysia trip, so we all looked at them and dribbled over the durian. He also brought some young coconuts and I've not had one for 2 years, so then had 2 and a bit. Oh, body missed them. Then someone says that there's a shop in Cambridge selling them. Will go check it out when Evie's back in wellworld. |
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