All things are connected. So yesterday, we met this really sweet girl art student, who's an art student and one of her lecturer had done a thesis on hydrofeminism. I'm not sure what the feminism has to do with it or where that comes in exactly, but we watched a video of her giving a talk about it, and it was all about how your body is connected to the ocean, because we're full of water, and the ocean is full of water, and how the ocean reflects our bodies. It was a bit naff, to be honest but one thing that made my ears prick up was that she was relating it to sleep, as I've, for the last probably 10 years, have not slept well.
She talked of how the ocean also needs to rest like we need to rest and how it can't because of pollution and chemicals and blah, blah, blah. And it was highlighting pollution in the ocean and how there's, what she called, a rack, which is basically the shoreline and this is the layer between the ocean and the outside world, and is where exchange occurs, a bit like our skin, I suppose, and our lungs, where exchange in and out of our bodies occurs. It's all very well, and, OK, she was highlighting the problems of pollution... But what is this actually achieving?
That is actually ONE of my main concerns. Stopping the destruction of our planet, of our environment. And I'm just wondering, how can we put that out there to people, particularly young people, as they are the future. People like my 20 & 22 year old and people like the art student, who's 25, and Another art student, a lovely 25 year old girl who's just bought a van and who we're meeting today to chat about her ideas about art, writing and van-life. How can we give a better message to those people?
And not just a message, a sort of call to action really. And obviously, it's really hard to move government bodies to do anything. I think the van student actually said this in one of her emails, ‘like, oh yeah, there's people doing stuff, and we can get involved in that, That's one thing, but what can we do personally?’
What can each and every person do to fight against the destruction of our environment? And it's kind of obvious. Well, it's kind of all connected. Basically we need to consume less. That's the basic fundamental thing. Every single person needs to consume less. So we need to use less chemicals. We need to eat less. we need to eat less meat, we need to buy less stuff!
My big thing is i want to travel, which I've thought about a lot, but okay yeah, I might need to get a plane one or two times to get to different countries but then within that country can I move more sustainably, use trains use public transport, walk even. So we all need to be doing something. I've heard people say, and my friends say, oh, nothing's going to happen or change.
'Even if I went and lived in a wood for the rest of my life, it's not going to change the environment' But I actually don't believe that's true. I think if everybody started to move towards a more natural state of living, then we can make a difference.
It's going to be a fucking hard battle in this day and age where people are so stuck in their phones and in their virtual world and it's kind of taken over from the real world. It's just a total distraction. But I think we need to start doing something.
My other passion, or my disillusionment, is with the nhs - I've been in the nhs 30 years and I know its just getting destroyed and aside from the collossal waste of money going on inside, and every single company and supplier ripping it off - one big problem is because people are overusing the nhs and that over consumption of the nhs will ultimately destroy it, just as the over consumption of the planet's resources will destroy the planet. These are connected. We need to use less medicines, less drugs. People need to think of ways to keep themselves healthy and vital. People need to walk more. They need to eat better. They need to eat less. Obesity is a big problem. It's a personal responsibility to look after yourself. And it's everybody's responsibility to look after the planet. Doctors will just go on pushing out the pills because its big business.
One thought. How come in 2020, during covid, A&E was the quietest place in the hospital? It was like a ghost town. But now in 2025 its absolutely overrun again. Its like a battle field. What is happening here? So that is going to be my sort of forefront mission. There are other things connected to that, that I'm interested in too, but they're all connected.
Like, should we be using HRT medicines when we get reach menopause? We have got sucked into the overuse of medicines? Do we really need it? Me included. I'm actually on HRT, and I'm thinking, do I really need this. Is it really doing anything for me or is it all in the mind. I've started to try and wean myself off of it to see if it actually makes any difference. Because the whole HRT thing has become a real big thing. Great! Lovely Davina has highlighted it. Oh, it's so great now you know. It was never recognised before! GPs didn't have training on it. We've suddenly woken up to this ‘terrible’, problem, the menopause. And of course now its gone crazy. As with all these 'issues', it has swung too much the other way. We all getting a bit hysterical about it now. Doctors that I work with told me, oh, just go on HRT. They were on it themeselves, the ones of that age.
But do I really need it? My mum sailed through the menopause, as did my mother-in-law. They didn't have any problems, they didn't even think about it. And I've got a couple of friends who just say, oh yeah, I'm just ignoring it. And they're no worse off than me, I believe.
So it'd be interesting to see how that goes. My weaning off HRT.
What are the other things? Hair dye. Why are we dying our fucking beautiful grey hair? You know, when your hair goes grey, it looks lovely. It's nice. I love my hair. There's all sorts of colours in it, not just grey. In fact there is no such thing as a grey hair. the pigment runs out and the hair turns white, so its just how that reflects on your remaining hair. The overall look will be different depending on your original hair colour. I've often been asked if I put highlights in mine. Women are sort of led to believe - no1 conditioned by society - that they're going to look younger if they dye their hair. That's really not true. In fact, if anything, they look older because when you age, your skin changes, your skin tones change. And I really believe it matches or mirrors your skin, your hair, your grey hair.
And if we stop dyeing our hair, then that's less chemicals that are going into the sea and the land. Just like less HRT getting peed out into the sea and onto the land. How is that oestrogen affecting the insects, the animals that consume the plants, and the humans. How does the oestrogen affect the male population in regards to, say, fertility? Yesterday there was a radio 4 news item about how TFA,a forever chemical, has been found in the rivers and hence the water supply. Its been found that this chemical can affect the fertility in rats so what are the implications for the future fertility of humans.
If we use less medicines, less chemicals, less toxins going into the world. These are all things that are connected.
So not just separate things to talk about. And I will talk about them separately in more detail. I'm going to try and write about all of these things in a better coherent way. And perhaps in a more interesting way. So this is just a little practice, introduction and thoughts on what happened to me yesterday and my thought.
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