100 Days of Happiness 2020 - Day 71 - Monday again

[byslantedlight]

Monday just seems to keep coming around... and today it blew in with warmth, and a kind of muggy feel, which normally I wouldn't like at all, but which made a nice change from the cold of winter today! also it had rained overnight (and dripped a bit today too), which was actually something we've needed for a few weeks! Doesn't feel right to say it after endless wet days (it felt like) over winter, but there you go! Today was a gloriously spring day, though...




I was out food saving again tonight, but because it was a yet again situation where the carer who'd stepped in was called away and couldn't do it, and I'd filled everyone I knew easily's freezers over the last week, I sent out a call for anyone on the village support group who might want food - and had half a dozen replies from people who said they'd be glad of a bit extra, including one guy who'd been living on food bank deliveries (via our village group) for ages. So I was very happy to be able to do something useful there too. It was dark by the time I got back, but the moon was full and it was a gorgeous night. *g*

Also, my current awkward work assignment is almost finished (last day tomorrow) and although I don't have anything else lined up yet (which is always very gulp when they leave it late to send), I'm very happy to be nearly done with this one!

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thanks! *g* Now I just need to get planting! The garden is shared with my landlords - in fact it's their garden of course, but they share it with me. They're older, and finding it very hard to keep things in control, so I'm trying to help a bit with that.

And not a silly question at all! Food saving is basically saying food that the supermarkets haven't sold, and would otherwise have to throw away because it's reached its use-by or best-before date. Of course most of it still perfectly good, and our village store, which is a Co-op, has a scheme where you can apply to collect the food to do something useful with it in the community. So I did that at the end of last year, and after alot of faffing got started in March. I'd go and collect the food in the evening, walk across the road and lay it out on a folding table, with the help of volunteers, and people could come and take whatever they could use to stop it being wasted. Obviously in lockdown we can't do that, but it seemed stupid for the food to be thrown away again when people need it more than ever now, so I'm organising it to be delivered to people's doorsteps after collection instead. Even in our small village there are people who have been laid off work, or are self-employed and work has dried up, or who can't get to the shops themselves now (and can't afford much anyway when someone else goes for them). So the food saving is really proving its importance now...

[freetraveller15.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the explanation, and for volunteering to help saving leftover food that would be wasted. This is one of my pet hates... knowing how much food is wasted on average, something even more intolerable now that, as you say, lots more people are struggling in putting enough food on the table. And not to mention how damaging it is to the environment too, to waste food, after all the energy and natural resources consumed to produce it...

Wishing you a Happy and Peaceful Easter!
P x