A GOOD BUTCHER IS HARD TO FIND?

We currently live in SE London and I have to be honest, a non Halal butcher or the BBQ pre-packed / pre-frozen butchers (if you can call them that) are really hard to find. However, we were driving through the Blackheath Standard last week looking for an entirely different butcher and came across GG Sparkes.

We hastily parked up and walked up the road back to the store front and were absolutely amazed at the produce in their window. There was Wood Pigeon, Mallard, Pheasant, Venison and lots of Organic joints and cuts of meat. It was like hitting pay-dirt and we'd driven past the end of this road a hundred times and never noticed it was there at all!

A CONCIOUS CHOICE

Today we made our first concious choice to buy Organic Cheese and not just... Cheese. This represented the first foot on a total lifestyle change brought on in part by perhaps watching a little too much River Cottage.

My 'name' is SkyBlue1971 and my fiancé and co-author of this blog is Cyberpaddy66, welcome to our little piece of cyberspace, Gaia Cottage.

In this blog we hope to share the highs and lows, the laughter and tears of two people trying to get back to nature and improving our lives in as many ways as possible.

In around five weeks time we will be moving to an extremely rural part of SW Cornwall and when we close the door for the final time on our first floor flat in the city of London we will be closing the door on cheap Tesco's chickens, chemical laden lotions and potions and a whole myriad of other things.

We will be making concious choices about the big things like the food we eat and will be making sure it is Organic and Free Range right down to the ingredients in simple things like lip balms. We hope to learn to make soaps, shampoos and many other lotions and potions as naturally as possible and looking at every alternative for things that up until now we have taken for granted.

Before you don your tin hats and wait for the onslaught of militancy about our lifestyle and yours and a serious guilt-tripping session, fear not, that is not what this blog is about. We would love for you to follow in our footsteps but if you don't want to, well that's fine with us too, just stick around, pour yourself a nice mug of Fair Trade tea and help yourself to some home-made cake. There, we're quite friendly really!