A whole lot of fruit later...

Some recent pictures from my wee world... (click to enlarge in gallery view)

 September Words

When my mither was in Australia she met a cousin who had helped with other family members to clear out my great grandparents house when that sad time came to be.  Her son had picked up my great grandpa's camera and it had apparently been sitting on his shelf since.  When she found I was a photographer she sweetly put it that I should be the one in the family to have it as I might get use out of it!  I had no idea of this until a package arrived with this dashingly beautiful camera in the sweetest case!  I wonder what pictures he took.  I love the autograph panel and the stylus!  It even had some very old Adelaide tram tickets from his adventures, scrunched up and shoved in the depths of the star pocket!  Woah!  Happy wee bee, I can't wait to shoot with it after it gets a loving clean!

As you can see I am still hand stitching kittens!  I feel the coldness of our Scottish weather creeping in through the wee opening of the window, the space where the cats sit when it is too driecht for even them to venture out!  The days are shorter and I sit in our wee darkened room illuminated by glittering candles which bounce off my sequin curtains and mirrors.  I am thinking I need to make some fitted velvet trousers as I no longer own any trousers and fear for my legs when the snow starts to fall.

A Scottish Winter on it's Way

Autumn is falling near and fast

Mourning flowers dry to last

Stretching, walking, eating through days

Picking, foraging, found new ways.

Coating plates in the darkness

Wakening to meaws before light hits

Fresh fruit fae near and far

Giving power to my wee mitochondria.

Pausing goals, dismissing hype

I ken I'm talented if I'm alive

My great grandpa's camera fae 1914

Focus and enjoy getting it clean.

Silver nitrate needs to rest

Just like me, it's for the best

Spring will be a prize to win

Get through the winter with dry plate sin. 

My Every day Breakfast Smoothie:
-Ten bananas
-Twenty strawberries
-Twenty blueberries
-Twenty red grapes
-Two apples
-Two oranges
-Two kiwis
-One cup of coconut milk
-half a cup / cup of beetroot juice
-half a cup of cold water 
(some days I mix it up with other fruits too).

Which is about- 1717kcal, 10g fat, 425g carbs, 56g fiber, 21g protein, 5476 potassium, 125 sodium, 64%calcium, 38%iron, 46%vitamin A, 700% Vitamin C.

It is really important to get fiber in your diet, if you do not eat very many fruits and veggies you should perhaps introduce a wee smoothie into your day as fiber only comes from plant foods.  I had a friend who died of bowel cancer, one of Britain's worst killers and usually the number one nasty is that people do not have enough fiber in their diets.  Do yourself a favor!  Mark's nutrition course is doing us both a lot of good!  Oh and just because, we hear it often, I do not eat too many bananas!  hehe!  My potassium levels are fine, to 'over-dose' or get close to on potassium you would have to eat something stupid and impossible like 400 bananas in thirty seconds!   It is a rare occasion that I get to thirty in a day!  The human body is a genius regulator, it processes fruits and veggies way easier than any other food type and bananas are wonderful! In the last four years I simply have not felt this healthy. ;) x