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2006 -- March's journal Pinch and a punch, first day of the month 1st March -- Phew. Evie's better. Now not sure exactly what it was, maybe food poisoning (she can pick things up off of floors when my eyes avert for one nanosecond). Anyway, she's at nursery for a few hours, and I so needed the break. Just the energy break, you know -- no-one in the house etc. Matt came over on Monday night so I could have a bath and wash my hair (er, but then Evie got in, so not much of a break). Then I had to do some work and Evie fell asleep on Matt til he had to go at 9pm. Bless her. Anyway, she slept most of yesterday, only waking to eat booboo, drink her mushroom medicine, and I think she ate half a tamarind. I offered her food, but she just said "no" in that little cute accent a bit like a French person. I worked all the time she slept, and finished way past midnight last night, so was pretty tired when I went to bed. We both woke up at 10.30 this morning! I've never had a full night's sleep for over 18 months! Oooh, how I needed that! So Jessie's coming over tomorrow, which will be fab. Her little Finlay's obsessed with this raw chocolate sauce that Sky made. We've sold some at the pot lucks but now it's all gone, before getting it on the web site to sell! Oooh, can't tell you how fab it is. Am currently having a v interesting time with food. Totally obsessed with lightly dressed romaine lettuce -- eating a whole one with Vita-Mixed apple cider vinegar, sd tomatoes, garlic and Udo's oil, then with a great sprinkling of crystal manna and an avo on top. Mmmm. Can't get enough of it. Also perfected the best brain-power smoothie today... Been working on this for a while, and the way my mind's felt today since having this has shown me that this is the one. I've been doing numbers all day, and got them all right. Not like me!... ready...? Focus pocus smoothie 1 banana 1 dessertspoon Thor's raw power 2 dessertspoons raw mesquite powder 2 dessertspoons of Udo's Oil 1 teaspoon of Blue manna Half a yellow (canary) melon 3 heaped dessertspoons of raw chocolate powder 1 dessertspoon of raw cashew butter 1 teaspoon of suma 1 pint of water Blend everything in the Vita-Mix, sit in sunny conservatory naked with newly recovered child climing on the table and enjoy... (Well that's what I did!) And finally, the spring cleaning never stops... had time to do a spirulina enema this afternoon. Not managed one since Evie, really, if I remember rightly. Oooh, feel supergreat right now. Time to breathe 6th March -- Evie's been in bed for hours since coming home from nursery. She was a monkey at the weekend and didn't sleep at all on Friday night. I mean AT ALL. Oooh, I was tired! Anyway, I've somehow got a tummy bug since then so am just eating little bits of banana at the moment, so nothing exciting to report on food at all. Actually, had a truly wonderful weekend for a million reasons. Just could have done with a child that sleeps. Is this why I've heard it said that raw fooders end up giving their children bread to suppress them? So tonight I thought I was a bit tired for work, so I just read a book and watched a bit of Corrie. Reading a few books at the mo. Tried so hard to stop doing that -- starting one book then getting sidetracked, but they call me, and they all seem so exciting, and then they bore me so I go to the next one. I think I'm like a bee pollinating flowers, can't spend too much time on one. Am like that with films, too. Like to just see the end of films, that's enough. Anyway, just read half of a book on cider vinegar. The writer says to see how effective it is, get a worm from the garden, put it on a kitchen surface and pour vinegar on it. Now watch as it wriggles as if it were in pain (AS IF!!!), and then changes colour and then dies. Uh? Am I missing something? If you had acid poured on you and you were dying and wriggling, would you be wriggling in ecstacy or actually in real pain? Went off the book and cider vinegar at that point for a bit, hence the Corrie. Big Brighton news! My lovely scrummy mate Kate Wood is opening her new raw shop Raw Magic on Sunday 12th, totally devoted to life-changing potions, and all things raw and chocolatey. It's in Brighton, above The Hemp Shop, and I'll be going down there to feast and feel the lurve. How fab. Two raw shops opening in 2 weeks of each other! We're on a roll. But not a granary one. Yummy not-mummy 15th March -- Wow, just had such a cosmic synchronicity-filled weekend in Brighton. The cacao gods must be very pleased with my work for rewarding me so abundantly. Stayed at Jess's house (not Jessie's house. 2 Jess mates is confusing even to me!!) on the Friday night -- a good stopover for Evie, and a great girlie time for us. She is a raw cacao goddess, for sure... She made a choccie cake and we ate it at 4pm. Hadn't eaten by 6pm the next day, only had a small juice and did a bit of Kate's chocolate testing. Cacao'd out, on and up. Kate's shop opening was fab, but Evie had non-sleepitis and got a bit confused with all the big people there, when she's so little and all that. Me and Jess went out for a drink, I had a massive green juice and Evie drank loads of it. I love that about my babe -- she's a cucumber and spirulina ballerina. And I totally am in love with Brighton. It's all going on there, and I'm sat thinking WTF am I doing in Cambridge? It's the hermit gene. Gotta sort that out. Honestly, Brighton is so sociable and switched on. Went to a fab party on Saturday night with Kate -- ooooh, 2 ladies out without their babes. Everyone was all dressed up and dancing to 30s music on real vinyl records. There was also a natural living show on and I bumped into Mike from Innertalk and Cary of Kikiland, and all sorts. And loads of people kept going "Shazzie", and I'm like looking round to see who they're talking to coz I've kind of forgotten that I'm Shazzie with being such an intense mummy for the past 19 months. Just felt like I was with my family. Felt wonderful. I'm dreaming of a white chocolate Mummy, the fridge is empty Anyway, then I went and had some non-mummy time while I went to a lovely gala dinner in my posh white dress with some beautiful friends while Jess looked after Evie. Kate took her later on and breastfed her!!! How wonderful is that??? You can't leave your breastfed babe normally, as they're without food, but when another mother of the same clan (raw and loving etc) is there, and she has milk, then it all makes sense. Apparently Evie took to it like a duck duck to water. And I had a night of yumminess and princess-like living. Well, my promise to be more sociable this year is working -- never hung with so many mates as I have in the past few weeks, and feel so much better for it. Then I had to drive from Brighton all the way to Great Yarmouth as I was being interviewed and photoed. You really don't want to be photoed when you've had about 3 hours sleep in 5 days, but apart from the red eyes I think I was alright! They had me on the floor on a white sheet with food and products all round me. Then I had gojis abundantly falling from my hands for one shot. V good fun and Evie hoovered up the gojis afterwards... OK, must attempt some work. Am a little behind... Love to all.... I'm dreaming of a white chocolate 16th March -- Yeah yeah yeah. Finally invented RAW WHITE CHOCOLATE! Recipe to follow, but check these babies out... And Evie in the fridge while Sue was cleaning it this morning... We're in the papers... Check this article out, I did this interview the other day. The world of leather How hard is it to buy a new car without it being furnished in dead cow skin? There are millions of veggies out there, and every car I've looked at has leather seats and wheels and gearsticks. Goodness. I've asked them if they'll put cloth in, and it's not possible. I can get one car without leather seats but then it's an entry level model and doesn't have electric seats or all the groovy sporty bits attached to it. Don't they know that if I bought a car with leather seats I'd probably have to come back to this planet, and I don't want to, I want this to by my last time. Now, I totally love my Vera, you know that, but she's 6.5 years old now and I just can't fit grown ups in there when Evie's car seat is in, it's not designed for more than 2 full-sized people. Mutha refuses to go in there now. So, the sensible thing to do is to get a new car, but I want a fab one (obviously!!!), and fab ones seem to have dead things hanging off them. Luxury? It's murder. Don't they get that there should be an option? "Would you like blood on your hands or not blood on your hands with your new car, madam". And of course they think I'm a bonkers hippy for even asking the question... Oooh. And I do recall Steve Jobs having the same problem, but he could actually afford to customise his cars as he's got millions of squids. What do you do??? The drugs don't work Can anyone believe what happened to these six guys who were being human guinea pigs for a pharm company? What will it take to make people realise? Drugs don't work. This is the 21st Century -- there's a more intelligent way! The only way to get rid of illness is to get healthy. Health doesn't come in a bottle with "warning, this may cause your head to swell up to three times the size and cause total organ failure". Who on earth thought it a good idea to make drugs legal in the first place, let alone do this. Wow. What a crazy, crazy situation. Wouldn't it be great if this tragedy turned around people's attitude to pharm drugs, and they turned to their own senses instead? Here's to hope. And many blessings to those who suffered this pointless, money-led tragedy. Shame on you, Parexel. Total shame on you. Radio news 18th March -- Oh, this journo interviewd me the other day for Radio Broadland, to broadcast today. There's no podcast or owt, though. Anyway, it was about raw food, and then they played some of it on their 1 o'clock news today! Raw food on the news! Wow. Vitamin D, vitamin D, are you the one missing from me? Find out all about the importance of Vitamin D here. Reminds me, I must sort out Evie's passport so we can go hang with Jo or Jatinder en Espana for a bit... Breakfast at Tiffany's "You say we've got nothing in common, no common ground to start from and we're falling apart. And I said what about"... etc... Breakfast at Shazzie's must be infinitely better than Breakfast at Tiffany's. Well, it was today... White chocolates (as above), dipped in... Cream (cashews, young coconut jelly and water, a touch of almond extract, vita-mixed) 2 double shots of E3Live (straight, I'm so hardcore, me) 1 cup of Immunitea with extra goji berries and hemp leaf 1 young coconut drank through a sparkly straw (and quarter spilled on drawers (wooden ones, not pants), so I sucked it up -- had cleaned drawers the day before...) 1 shot of sexy (The Barefoot Doctor's latest creation). Maybe more, my mind's a blur... Certainly the best breakfast ever. At least. Oooh, that raw food, it's so "restrictive" isn't it ;-) Radiant children competition results 21st March -- Ah, thanks for all your entries to win the e-book by Tish called Radiant Children. We were touched. Here are the fab winners!!!!! Tina Bystrom, USA Ruth Nurmala Taye, Sweden Lynda Scorch, UK Hip hip hooray to you! Tish will contact you very soon with details on how to claim your ebook. Enjoy! I'm dreaming of a white chocolate recipe 23rd March -- Oooh, I'm getting nagged, best give you it. Er, all measurements are approximate, you may have to fanny about a bit to get the proper consistency, coz I just threw it all in there with my raw chocolate trained eye... 1 cup of raw cacao butter 1 teaspoon of Gillian McKeith's living energy powder 1 cup of raw cashew nuts 1 teaspoon of maca powder 2 dessertspoons of mesquite powder 1 teaspoon of suma powder 2 dessertspoons of raw agave nectar Grate the cacao butter, and put in a big bowl in a sink full of warm water. Once it's melted, add all the other ingredients to it and stir well. Transfer everything to a Vita-Mix and blend until it's a thick liquid. If you don't get a thick "melted chocolate" consistency, then add more of the dry or wet stuff as appropriate. Pour into those rubbery ice cube moulds and put in the fridge to set. They're nicest just out of the fridge, but are also OK if they're at room temperature. They don't fall apart or melt like the wicked witch or anything. Congrats to Bov and Chrissie!!! I just got an email from said couple who snuck off and got married!!! They didn't invite any mates but are having a marriage party in the summer. Too right, I wanna kiss the bride. And groom. Everyone!!! How lovely. They've been together for 20 years, so kind of know each other well. And I have to say, that they're both really solid, wonderful, caring, loving friends. They're fab, and I'm very happy for them. Chrissie will probably want another cat now, and Bov will go "Nooo, let me buy a gadget instead." Aw! Lisa Luscious came over last night to borrow some clothes for her honeymoon, she's off to Cuba with Michaelfinnigan. I didn't realise I had some of the things I found for her! And as I went in my "too small drawer" (my pre-Evie) drawer, I was trying on some trousers, and another pair were released from the "too small drawer" and went into the "I can wear you wardrobe". Yey! Actually, nearly everything except the smallest of small things fit again now. Not sure if I'll ever get into some of the things I used to wear as I have booboos and such... Er, but not where my trousers are... The Brighton buzz Brighton is fast becoming the raw capital of the UK, and Shazzie wants to live there. Er, but I know I only moved last year. Will stop for a bit, OK? Need to pay some of my megamortgage off before I think of uprooting again. Anyway... There's a fab festie going on in June, and it'd be great if you took a day out of lifedom to experience the raw revolution! Oh, and it's in Hove, which is kind of attached to Brighton. Check out the details: Food of Life Festival a one day celebration of all things raw and beautiful! Sunday June 4th 2006 The Old Market Hall, Hove 10.30am - 5pm £2 entrance 8 great presenters Kate Wood Shazzie Mike Nash Steve Charter Holly Paige Phil Grist Angela Stokes Julie ( Siridatta)- kundalini yogini who will give 'Wake up and Roar' dynamic yoga sessions.... Lots for kids Raw Kid's Candy Bar Puppet show from the Teensy Weensy Theatre: Little Red Riding Hood in the Broccoli Forest Steve, the clown Loads of stalls -- All about Raw and Eco-Healthy Permaculture Local Growers Hemp Choco Paradise 'Active Lightworks' offers healing sessions in the Nookie Healing Haven downstairs * * * * * * * * * * * ^.^ * * * * * * * * * * * And in the evening, from 6.30pm, under a separate ticket... Evening Raw Feast Twin Crystal Bowl Healing Indian Music Chance to dance(DJ) For more details and to book: www.foodoflife.moonfruit.com | email sue Cupboard moths Well, I wonder what this all means? I've recently been infested with cupboard moths. Eugh, on first glance. They flap and flap and do this dance in your face. Now, they get in on seeds, chocolate, and grains. They can live for about 6 weeks each, and the birds can lay up to 200 eggs. So it only takes one pair to make 200, and then what? Numbers so big I can't count or see for flapping cupboard moths. Once they've mated, they lay eggs that become little caterpillar things down the back of your cupboards, so you can't get to them. They're pretty small, and there are loads of nice warm hiding spaces in kitchens. As a vegan, and a believer in not killing on purpose, I am having a hard time dealing with this. Having looked it up on th'internet, you can get so overrun with these critters that some people have to get pest control to fumigate. Eugh, on second glance. So, this is what I've done... Threw away all old food (a few weeks ago). Sealed all food, so tight that they can't get in. Scoured all cupboards. Removed all moths and larvae (put outside, but I think some came back in. Luckily they're pretty easy to catch with a glass and some paper). Put kitchen roll soaked in clove oil in food cupboards. Now, I've removed about 50 moths this week, seriously, it's driving me bonkers. I've got 4 trapped from tonight which I'll put out tomorrow. There are other things you can do, such as freeze your food when you get it to kill any eggs that have come in on the food, but that's not good for the food. You can also get pheremone-based moth traps, but they kill the moths, and I really don't want to do that if I can at all help it. Am learning to love my moths, and as soon as I do that, they'll move on, and no more eughs. My mice moved on, didn't they? It's pretty bonkers, though, and I see them when I close my eyes... Strawberries Me and Evie had some fab strawberries today. We blended them with cashews and agave syrup, and they were sooo yum. Evie fed me with her baby spoon which was cute. But that's because I fed her with my grown up spoon. Oh, and we spent 3 hours at a garden centre, and bought some organic green seeds for the old fish pond. We're going to clear it and maybe plant them tomorrow! Evie's first gardening day... Hope it's as sunny as it was today. Hatches, matches and dispatches 25th February -- I knew yesterday felt all wobbly for some reason. Just couldn't feel right about it. Then my mum rang. Well, she didn't. She was just about to and I rang her and so she picked up the phone before it went ring ring. She told me that one of our colleagues, Paul Benson had died. How so really very sad. Anyway, there's a celebration of his life happening next weekend. It's all the way down in Totnes, which may be a mare for Evie to deal with but my mum's wanting to go, so we probably will. My mum was always on the phone to him. I never spoke to him but I greatly admired everything he did, and all the energy he put into his work. Bless him, on his invoices, he always put Remember the love, it was his strap line. Paul, we will always remember your love, you will shine on so brightly... And then, not 24 hours after I found out about Bov and Chrissie getting married, and not 6 hours after finding out about Paul, my wonderful friend Claudio and his wife Charlotte gave birth to a baby boy named Troy. All within 24 hours this happened. Goes to show the turnings of the wheels of the world, doesn't it? Domestic bliss Me and Evie have had full on domesticity over the past couple of days. For a change we weren't rushing about all over the place, so we've made loads of food, loitered for hours in the bath and gone shopping several times. Evie loves shopping, and is really helpful with putting things in the basket that I don't need, like bag clips, yoghurt coated nuts and radish seeds. It's been lovely, and today's also lovely as I got to do the sauna thang as Matt's got his poppet for the day. And the daffs are out in the garden! Yeeeeeahhhh... Shazzie loves the spring. Cupboard moths and cupoard shoes 30th March -- Been looking on th'internet for shoe storage ideas. Not sure what to get, so might nip off to Argos tomorrow with Evie. I think our project for the day will be to tidy our understairs cupboard. Evie's getting the hang of tidying up which is useful. I've less cupboard moths these days, but they are still there. I'm still getting them out the house as soon as I see them to stop them becoming like locusts. I got some bay leaves and put those in the cupboards, as they don't like the smell of them. Er, but that just means they're flying into other places in the house. Am being vigilant. Have been told it may become an obsession. Methinks not. The Sunfood Diet Success System Oh, how lovely is David Wolfe's newly refurbed Sunfood Diet Success System? When we had our fab Indian-style pot luck on Sunday, Becky brought some along from the office, as I have a little stall on the pot lucks. It was the first time I saw it, and I loved it. I did declare "There is now no need for anyone to write any more raw food books". It is the king of raw books. There are full colour pictures in there, and it's beautifully designed, and it's a hardback. We sold all but one that day, but have loads at the office. Yey, the pot luck was so tasty. Everyone declared that it was the best yet. There were also 3 new people, which is always lovely. I took some pics, will put them up when I get time. I think I've found out what's been making me feel sick. I'm very happy to report that it isn't cacao in any form (which for a while I was thinking it could be!!! Phew!!!), and it's not any superfoods, phew again. I'm just going to make sure exactly what it was and then I'll mention it, coz it probably does need mentioning... Oh, it is a food, btw, nothing sinister (of course it went through my head that the government were poisoning us re bird flu, but maybe they're not now!!!). Evie's favourite breakfast Evie's got a favourite new breakfast, and it's so easy. 3 teaspoons of hempseeds (shelled), 1 teaspoon of raw cacao powder, 2 teaspoons of dark raw agave syrup, a dash of Gillian McKeith's superfood and a splosh of blue manna, all just mixed in a little bowl. She often feeds it to me, but she does get some of it herself, and she washes it down with a cupotea, fennel is our flavour of the moment, as it's nice on the stomach. Evie drinks so much tea in the morning, she now has her own cupotea, and today she drank that and then most of mine. Am gonna have to get her a builder's mug. Mugotea. 31st March -- Hm. Forgot to say. I walked into my patio door yesterday. Only just remembered as I had my hand on my face and felt a bruise on my cheek. I think I'll have to get one of those sticky on things that stops birds flying into windows. And stops blonde birds walking into them. Also forgot to say that Evie had her first proper accident on Wednesday. Her daddy was "helping" by cleaning out a bin in my kitchen. He did the unthinkable and mixed organic waste with non-organic waste (well, he doesn't live in a place where you have to do that -- yet!!!). And as he emptied one bin, my most gorgeous, beautiful precious one slipped and cut her lips on the bin. Ooh. All I heard from upstairs was a big cry and it didn't stop. And when I saw her, she looked like she'd had botox injections. Bless her. Oh, my heart bled. As did Evie's mouth. Oh. Oh. Oh. My little tiny baby. Matt then proceeeded not to sleep that night coz of the trauma. Oh. Again. Next

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