It’s a dog’s day at the neighborhood market

The doggy’s master is in the background carrying two heavy bags of groceries

I was at the morning market yesterday when I was pleasantly surprised to see 3 dogs walking around with baskets in their mouth. As you can see in the picture above, I managed to capture an image with my mobile phone of one of the dogs carrying some raw uncooked vegetables. Isn’t this dog the cutest thing?

There they go, swishing their tails happily.
I had dogs before, so I know they are just
ecstatic to be out of the house

Since I work from home, my time is pretty flexible, and I’m blessed in that I am able to go to the morning open air market, maybe twice a week, to buy fresh ingredients for my meals. I thought I’d just show you readers, who are not from my neck of the woods , how my regular market looks like.

Although it’s not compulsory, people are starting to carry their own reusable shopping bags

Anyways, talking about using reusable bags, it’s good to know that the island paradise of Penang is now enforcing a “No Plastic Bags Day” every Monday. Ikea has gone much further and does not offer free plastic bags.  I try not to accept plastic bags unless I really can not help it. And I try to get the vendors to wrap the purchase with newspaper and raffia strings or just plain rubber band.

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More on plastic bags

• Plastic bags causing flooding problems
• No rush to ban plastic bags from MPs
• Plastic bottles vs paper cups at “More raw food at the night markets”

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Filed under: Environmental Issues • Green • Responsibility

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