Tea and Sympatico

Saturday morning breakfast was coffee and delicious scones from The Lonely Scone , a fab local company that also offer vegan, gluten free and diabetic friendly scones and are at the Glossop Farmers market each month. We usually stock up and freeze some. Followed by a little snack of Cremisso on ricecakes. This yummy spread tastes of apple and horseradish and is part of the brilliant stash of vegan friendly goodies Matt brought back from his Dutch tour last week. Big salads with oatcakes for lunch followed by these delicious hazelnut chocolate dips I found in V Revolution. For tea it was homemade pizza with double cheese (Vegusto Picante and MozzaRisella) and double meat (Fry's Polony and Wheaty Salami slices). We went on a little walk up a hill to check out a pub we'd not been to before and were gobsmacked to discover this! We will be back to check out the vegan menu at the Hare and Hounds . With nights out to live music events on both Friday and

This last Saturday was the Northern Vegan Festival which was held in Manchester city centre. It was an amazing day! Over 2,500 people turned up and there were long queues to get in for much of the day. Next year they are going to need a much bigger venue. I'd been ill for a week and half beforehand with a horrible chest infection/ suspected whooping cough and wasn't sure if I would make it. I was pretty shaky on the day but managed a good few hours and I'm so glad I did! Here's Lynnmarie and Jen of Manchester Vegans at the start of the day with a stall full of fantastic food donations and baked goods. £250 was collected in donations to be split between 3 charities which was great going. I also got to meet one of my favourite bloggers - Jojo of Vegan in Brighton . We got to hang out a bit over the weekend, in V Revolution , at the after party and Jojo also came to Meat Free Monday . I hope she makes it up to visit us again soon! I'd had a really poor appe