MarchHare007 
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Oh! That was scary, Lesley. I've not popped in for a while and was catching up.
I enjoy sharing your days - although I'm very remiss leaving notes.
Belated Birthday Wishes for Jonathon.
Congrats Mum for surviving Another Year.
It sounds like you both had a lovely day.
Reply #5541. May 01 13, 7:29 PM
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| lesley153
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Good to see you back, MH!
Thank you!
Yes thank you, it was a good day out. And he wore the shoes out on Sunday and to work on Tuesday, and his feet were happy, so it was a good choice.
Today I am calm and putting the spat into perspective. According to ActionAid, "every year the UK burns enough food crops in our cars, as biofuels, to feed 10 million people," and Danish researchers are saying that “finding a mass-distributable and affordable cure to HIV is possible”.
Priorities! |
Reply #5542. May 02 13, 3:51 AM
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satguru
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Our food prices haven't shot up for nothing, they've literally been burning them.
Reply #5543. May 02 13, 10:33 AM
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| lesley153
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| So dying perfectly good food blue to make it inedible, and dumping perfectly good food in the sea, isn't enough any more. They're determined to keep us hungry, aren't they? |
Reply #5544. May 02 13, 11:35 AM
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satguru
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Sure looks that way. People don't need to interpret UN documents, just look at their actions.
Reply #5545. May 02 13, 6:13 PM
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| lesley153
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A few months ago, I had a call from a UNICEF fundraiser in S Africa. She wanted me to give them £12 a month for rehydration sachets, which I think worked out at 69 pence each. I asked her a few questions she couldn't answer. I thought £12 was a bit steep and 69p was very steep, and didn't think she was as clued-up as she needed to be to make an effective pitch.
Another once rang yesterday, from Durban. My £12 would buy 220 sachets, which works out at a little under 5.5 pence each. That sounds better than 69 pence!
It's still Unicef, though: it's still part of the UN. I can't help feeling that what they're doing is putting a very small finger in the hole in the dyke. And wonder who's making the hole. |
Reply #5546. May 03 13, 7:35 AM
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| lesley153
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Just spent seven hours, on the phone and online, helping my nephew with an assignment.
Another nephew has just got engaged. That means my brother and his wife are left with just one to get paired off. When all their children are married, they won't know what to do with themselves! |
Reply #5547. May 06 13, 5:07 PM
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postcards2go
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Oh, I'm sure they'll find SOMEthing to do!!
When my daughter moved out, I began to look forward to her younger brother moving out :-D (which he hasn't done)
Reply #5548. May 06 13, 5:44 PM
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| lesley153
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| They could start talking to each other. Scary! |
Reply #5549. May 06 13, 5:47 PM
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postcards2go
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'They' do... 'He' doesn't talk to me :-p
Soooooo disfunctional LOL
Reply #5550. May 06 13, 6:25 PM
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| lesley153
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| Isn't that the norm? The more I hear about families, the less hope I have of ever finding a "normal" family. It'll be easier when we get round to redefining normal. |
Reply #5551. May 06 13, 6:42 PM
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| lesley153
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Outside the supermarket today were two men collecting money to support our forces.
People have fought for us, are still fighting. Why on earth is looking after them being left to charity? |
Reply #5552. May 10 13, 4:38 PM
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postcards2go
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Same thing in the U.S. Very disturbing!
Reply #5553. May 10 13, 5:56 PM
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| lesley153
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Similar, disturbing moment, a lifetime ago in central London. I was with some colleagues after work (having a quiet drink), and we were approached by a woman with an ingratiating smile and a collecting tin.
She wanted money for a piece of medical equipment for a nearby hospital. Thinks: she's collecting for something that is up to government to provide - not something as unpredictable as charity. Once is OK but I do hope it's not the thin end of the wedge.
Of course it was. So often, bright, shiny treatment rooms, children's toys, and state-of-the-art medical equipment in hospitals, are provided by the "friends" of the hospital. Other things are provided by the sale of tea and snacks, and second-hand books, at the WRVS stalls, while the volunteers running the stalls double as information hubs.
Apparently there's no money for pretty well everything. Where is all the money going - besides the bottomless pit known as the European Union? |
Reply #5554. May 10 13, 6:18 PM
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Professer
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A question i often ask as well Lesley, too much money goes to wrong people or places we are fighting to retain our caretaker services as, the council needs to make savings and in same breath we are told we have more council officials earning over 100k a year.
It is time we started looking after our own and the important places like hospitals, schools etc,then give to EEC's bottomless pit and paying over top salaries to mp's and council department heads.
Have just sponsored a friend who is doing the race for life with her daughter in July for cancer research, this is another thing the Government needs to fund it is important and peoples lives at risk. Will sponsor her twice more before the event from my mobile in end will be £30 a small donation. Her daughter will be 5 months old when the event takes place.
Reply #5555. May 11 13, 4:06 AM
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| lesley153
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There's a lovely clip, one of many, on YouTube, of St Nigel of the Farage telling some EU nonentity (the damp-rag-low-grade-bank-clerk new president, IIRC) that he earnt more than Pres Obama. I'm sure you've seen it?
Is your friend actually proposing to run with her daughter? I have endless admiration for her strength and stamina. |
Reply #5556. May 11 13, 8:01 AM
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Professer
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Apparently she is Lesley she will be in a papose and will run carrying her daughter. I am full of admiration for her doing it is in memory of her father in-law who died in January from cancer.
Reply #5558. May 12 13, 4:15 AM
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| lesley153
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Dreamed I was in my twenties and getting married. Popped a pinny on over my white dress, and put some chicken and potatoes in the oven to cook slowly till we got back.
Then thought of checking with my parents, and found that they had put chicken and potatoes in the oven, so I didn't need to.
Told Jonathan about it when I was awake. He said, if I got married again, he would be very happy to cook chicken and potatoes for me.
Got anyone lined up for me?
"Not my job." |
Reply #5560. May 13 13, 8:57 AM
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