Hurrah - or at the very least a weak-limbed air punch - for National Vegetarian Week!

It's getting near festival season. Will you be gathering round a campfire with a man called Racoon and his bonga drums at Glasto? Breaking up some popper-high sixteen year-olds from a bout of knuckle-meet-face introductions at Reading? Dressing up like a six foot stick of rock at Bestival and crying because your parents still don't know the truth? Or will you, like party livewires Yoko Ono, Seal and Chris Martin (pictured left ushering a journalist who said his grandmother "liked Parachutes more than La Viva La Vida" towards the exit) be savouring the real talk of festival season. Yes, it's that time of the year in which we - and by "we" I mean people who walk down the Sainsbury's meat aisle just as a short-cut to the soya milk shelf - celebrate everything non-meat based. Hurrah - or at the very least a weak-limbed air punch - for National Vegetarian Week (sponsored by Cauldron Foods)!

Despite the wholly unfounded and snobbishly closet cynicism I'll be listing some great veggie recipes, veggie book reviews and anything else veggie related this week. To check if there is anything gonig on near you, visit the Vegetarian Society's website here.