Charity and food donation boxes
Welcome back to another post in the blog series “Charity and the people behind them”. This week I’m thinking about how some people are so poverty-stricken in our cities that [ . . . ]
Category: Food for thought
Let’s say goodbye to plastic straws
The scale of environmental problems in the world today makes me wonder whether the bit that I do really does make a difference. Plastic, when it was invented, was hailed [ . . . ]
The dire situation around homelessness…it’s everyone’s problem.
The charity, Shelter says, ‘You may be homeless if you’re sleeping rough, don’t have rights to stay where you are or you live in unsuitable housing.’ This to me means that homelessness [ . . . ]
Climate change…I care, do you?
I have always been interested in and an avid supporter of the environment and looking after the precious world we live in but in recent years I have become increasingly [ . . . ]
Driverless cars by 2021…Really?
Driverless Cars…Really? I can’t imagine driverless cars on our roads and certainly not by the year 2021 which is what the UK government is predicting, yet this is the unfolding [ . . . ]
The Vitality of Water and our H2O relationship
The Vitality of Water The New Year often signals ‘Let’s drink champagne at Midnight!’, but our drinking habits have changed over the years as to how much we drink. We [ . . . ]
Finding The Right One.
All happily married women clap your hands in glee and congratulate yourselves on being in a better position than most singletons. We saw how Bridgette Jones struggled with being single [ . . . ]
The Mysterious Harry Potter Chair.
Wow! The chair that J.K Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series sat on whilst she wrote the first two books has been sold for £278,000. Again, I say [ . . . ]
“I Am The Greatest”: Muhammad Ali
“To be a champion, you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are” – Muhammad Ali. There’s a major new exhibition about the former undisputed world [ . . . ]
Launderettes: The end of an era?
I remember loading up my iKea laundry bag filled with my student friends’ clothes and mine; I hated the journey walking down to the launderette even though it was quite [ . . . ]
Life.
I believe that when it comes to the end of our life on this planet, everyone feels there wasn’t enough time. I know some people make a decision to end [ . . . ]
The Queen’s 90th Birthday
I stopped liking the Queen when princess Diana died or was killed!!! I will always remember Diana’s brother speaking at her funeral, and from that moment I erred on the [ . . . ]
Weddings: small and cosy OR lavish and extravagant?
History seems to suggest that the bigger the wedding, the shorter the marriage, particularly in the showbiz world, but is this applicable to us normal beings too. This actually seems [ . . . ]
Easter
I usually go to church especially at Easter and Christmas, and I particularly enjoyed the services on Good Friday and Easter Sunday because I found them to be very uplifting [ . . . ]
Confidence in life, where do we start?
Confidence could somewhat be described as a talent, you either possess it or you don’t. It’s really not something that can be taught in the classroom or learnt by a [ . . . ]
How those thank you notes will really help your kids.
I personally love the little common albeit small courtesies such as please and thank you, however in this new era, its quite uncommon especially thank you notes. On the other [ . . . ]
A rise in school translators
The news this week reports on an alarming increase in special teaching assistants to translate for Eastern European children. Despite the budget cuts, the staff are paid up to £65 [ . . . ]
Children from Syria
I’m sure you’ve seen the hundreds of news stories surrounding Syrian refugees. This week, this picture drew my attention. A poor mother bathing her baby over a puddle in the [ . . . ]
Helen Downie’s amazing artwork
Now-a-days, the phrase ‘Instagram sensation’ describes a lot of people who have become famous due to Instagram and the likes of Facebook & Twitter. The blog-sphere is blowing up, literally, [ . . . ]
LISTS
Everyone writes lists – well I do! Regardless of how many phones, tablets or computers we have, a written list seems to be the essential tool for the brain to [ . . . ]