I just looked up the word macrobiotics in my dictionary and it reminded me what it was about - balancing yin and yang.  Yes, I did like that idea before becoming a premie, I had a pendant with the yin yang symbol on it.

I have no idea what that's about now.  I think maybe it was just that there were the two things. 

I seem to remember that my attitude was well I don't know I'll find out what balancing the fire and the water does but I was interested the most in the starting your diet from fresh, adding the vegetables one by one, and I don't think I was planning to stop there.  I had this old pine kitchen table, all bleached, I still did that thing of scrubbing it with Ajax to clean it.

I was studying ceramics at uni and lived in a cottage in the woods, about a quarter acre vegetable plot, there were cats and people, some of my hippy friends had found me, but no chickens yet.  I probably would have wanted a small cow given time.