MY WORLD - Farmer's feast

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Each year in September a farmer's feast is organized in the city park of Waterloo. As the weather was nice I made a little walk through the stands.



There were quite a lot of people and a band played all kind of music



There was garden furniture and decorations to see



and lots of other stands selling different products, like here the wool stand with some clothes.



Publicity for a "green" life and propositions how to become more and more "green"



After having seen these cute pigs, I had no appetite for a sausage anymore !



there were some other animals too even a llama which is quite exotic for Belgium



The police showed what their dogs are able to do (see post below)


and a little video of the show






For children there were lot of things to play with



Solar pannels proposed for heating and people walked through this beautiful parc



some strange decorations for your garden



and a man who showed us how he makes clogs. They are mostly worn in the Netherlands, but also in parts of Belgium.

FUN MONDAY

ChrisB asks : 'what type of shopping bag do you favour'-plastic or material? How many do you use. You could even show us what's in your bag!

We haven't been asked if we didn't want plastic bags anymore, we had been forced to use shopping bags. We went back not to the future but to the past.

My female ancestors have always used fabric or even leather shopping bags or baskets, so did my mother. Then she got free plastic bags as much as she wanted and put her shopping bags away, they had become useless. This went on for 40 years at least for me. I "recycled" the plastic bags and used them for my garbadge. Nobody owned shopping bags anymore and the once born in 1970 didn't even know how they looked like.

From one year to the other plastic bags were banned and if you got one you had to pay for and use it until it broke into pieces. People remembered Grandma's shopping bags and bought some to carry their groceries into the car or home, because it was much cheaper then buying new plastic bags all the time.

We are back to the beginning of grocery shopping ! Just like with the food, today food without chemicals are called "bio" to grandma's times everything was bio.




These are the shopping bags I use for frozen stuff (upper left) for cat food in plastified carton and a plastic bag for the rest. The logo depends where you shop, but usually these bags are all out of the same material, strong plastic.




When I don't have a lot to buy I have these once in my car which I bought at Ikea. They are in plastified carton



and when I am just out for a very few little things I use this cotton bag with cats on, but I also have others and the jute bag which I like because of the lined up lady bugs.

Result of all this, now I have to buy plastic bags for the garbage, but I can show shopping bags on Internet which is a big difference with my grandma who only could show it around to her neighbors and the people in the shop !



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