The ‘morning person’ challenge: 1 week of early mornings

Let’s start with the simple fact that I am not a morning person. Yes, I know that almost everybody says that. But, like. I am NOT a morning person. [Picture of me in the morning] Legitimately, I have seriously, seriously considered quitting jobs in my morning ‘I-don’t-wanna-wake-up’ grogginess. I have missed events. Morning Rachel is a monster. Morning Rachel has literally sabotaged her own days…

A several weeks of treats, progress, & novelty outfits.

Temple Coffee Leeds: Review

Temple Coffee Leeds: how do I find this place? Okay first things first. Temple Coffee is fun to find. It’s a little out of the way. But the good news is that because it’s so out of the way they don’t sell out of vegan donuts as fast. Directions – use Google maps. LS4 2AR. Trust Google maps. Turn when it tells you to turn into Burley Place even though you think it’s making you turn into a wierd…

This last week has been a quiet blur of autumn leaves, frustration, and pancakes.

Photojournal: Recovery, 6 weeks

From hospital bed… … to being cast free.

“There is an 80-90% chance the bone will die, disintegrate, and collapse.”

“And you’ve already lost all side mobility in that ankle. That’s gone.” WELL FUCK. Yeah. The first time I heard those words, I am not ashamed to say I panicked. Some may have called it a panic attack (it was a panic attack). Laying in a hospital bed, high on morphine, I stared at a surgeon who was explaining to me in no uncertain terms that I had FUCKED UP. A week ago, I fell off a bouldering…

Barcelona Sights & Mountain Jogs: YouTube

Hiii hi hi cuties! I finally managed to get around to posting my first mini travelogue – a little snippet of my days in Barcelona. Shot just on my phone and edited with iMovie on various European public transport, it’s not the greatest quality! But, you’re just gonna have to wait for the really good stuff until I get home and really get editing the beautiful camera footage I’ve got ^.^ Anybody…

 I think I’m in love with Europe

Soooo… we can just forget all about Brexit, right? Hi everyone! Eeeeek! So my plan of just traveling around Europe, taking pictures, and just being totally solo COMPLETELY FAILED. In each and every place I’ve been I’ve met the most beautiful people; I’ve gone on adventures, I’ve stayed up late on mountain tops, I’ve spend long bus journeys singing Italian songs with bus drivers. I’ve been…

2 Days to decide: Austerity or Prosperity?

Hi hi hi! As promised… Vlog number 2 is out for you to watch, aaand comment, aaand like. Okay okay, I did promise this would be out on Monday, but after a busy weekend, and then shooting and editing this all in one evening, we decided to give ourselves a break and upload this today instead. I brought Conor (Boyfriend/ Cameraman/…

“What if…”

Thank you to all of the inspiring people who shouted their hearts out, as we marched through the city centre streets of Leeds, soaking wet and full of passion. What if: armed with whips and boots, we went on a hunt; took some slightly different routes.   I know a place called number 10 Full of liars, toffs and businessmen.   So, Let’s just let the hounds loose ’round Westminster’s corridors So…

A Vegan Mess is on YouTube!

Oh heeeeey cuties! In case you didn’t get it from the title, and from my facebook, and instagram, and twitter, aaaaaand me yelling on my rooftop… I started a Vlog! Whaaaaaaaat. Helped (a loooot) by my darling cameraman, Conor, my first video has been shot, edited, and released! Woohoo! On the channel, I’ll be talking about much of…

“May out, Keep the Ban!”

Across the road from city square, I hurriedly scribbled in my notebook: a few final touches on my anti-Tory, Fox ally, poem, to be read later after the march around Leeds city center. Conor and I could already see a ton of people gathered, police milling in and around the crowd. It was sunny but, for a day forecasted thunderstorms, we were pretty impressed at the turnout. What’s the deal with…

I’m a Green voting Labour, but that doesn’t mean you should too.

Sorry, Greens. Forgive me. Because this year I am being tactical. Why the Greens? The Independent The Green Party’s policies and values do closely align with my own moral center. With leaders like Caroline Lucas, it’s easy to see why a vegan like me would have an affinity for the Green party. But, I don’t like the party for its high number of veggie members and their care for the environment (oh,…

A check-in from A -slightly depressed- Vegan Mess

It’s Monday again already and I’m finally starting to understand that ‘Monday’s aren’t the best’ feeling. After working in retail, teaching and hospitality, Mondays were never a big deal! But anyway, I digress. What I’m trying to say is… I’ve been feeling quite sad again recently. Which is why these blog posts have slowed, why the ‘gram captions have been a little down, and why I’ve been a…

What is more extreme?

A response to The Daily Mail’s reporting of a vegan sticker found in a Morrison’s ready meal by a customer who felt ’emotionally blackmailed’.    I saw something on the news, today. About a girl who was so offended when she began to peel the packaging off of her beef bolognaise ready meal.   As she opened her dinner she saw a sticker, the sticker told her an animal had died. (Duh?!)   She was so…