With thanks to rich.inud at nakedeurope.org, who says:

Naked activities are harmless, healthy and fun and the more people who realise this the healthier, in both body and mind, the people of Europe and the world will be. The focus here is on outdoor naked activities because that is what I am particularly interested in: hiking naked in the remoter regions of the European Alps and environs.

I have always preferred to be naked. My late mother said snow or ice would not deter me and the story of a 2yo dancing naked in the snow in a chicken pen is oft retold.

Finding our way to the tropics of north eastern Australia in the late 70s was a dream come true and you would find me without clothes more often than not.

So has vegetarianism been the preferred lifestyle since the birth of my children in the early 70s. Is it not interesting how the added responsibility of children makes you re-examine the important things in (their) life? To maintain that lifestyle has not always been easy.

Now of course, my resolve is strengthened by an awareness of the detrimental environmental effects of all animal husbandry and, more so, by recognising the dehumanising and soul destroying effect killing and processing animals for food has on workers and consumers.

The positive side effects of my chosen lifestyle are many fold and it is easy to calculate the reduction in costs to my pocket and the environment.