Dear Eglantine

This is Eglantine, she was a the faithful pet of one of my best friends, C during most of 2012. When I went to visit C for Christmas in 2013, I was blessed enough to make her acquaintance, however whilst I was verging on my 24th birthday, Eglantine was lingering on her last days. As we left for the swimming pool late one afternoon Eglantine came running over to us squealing affectionately. We patter her and said goodbye and trotted off to the pool.

A few hours later, we returned refreshed and relaxed with no Eglantine in sight. Walking past the garage, we saw the family pet hanging from the roof, blood slowly dripping out of her neck into a pool in a bucket on the floor.

As a part-time vegetarian ( I allow myself a hefty amount of meat on my birthday and at Christmas), I gagged a little in my throat seeing the bundle of joy that only a few hours earlier bid us goodbye on our travels down the road to the swimming pool.

However looking back on this experience a few years later, I am thankful that my french family raised their own meat and after butchering the dear pig, were also able to make use of each piece of the animal. In the future, I wouldn't mind raising my own cattle and herd of swines to eat with my family a few times per year.

I care about maintaining a sustainable earth for me and my family, and therefore have been looking into various initiatives that I could take part of to show my passion for sustainability. I have a few websites and companies under my sleeve that I have fallen upon in recent months. One of which is ShareNl, a social business that is in contact with all sharing economy businesses within the Netherlands including the likes of Peerby, Konnectid, Snappy and my favourite Shareyourmeal (or Thuisafgehaald in Dutch).

I got in contact with Jessica from Sharenl to talk about future collaboration possibilities.

Apart from this, I have started listening to some rocking podcasts this year, and am compiling a list of great innovation, sustainability and other podcasts...