Not so much to say this month. Hope i am not getting mellow in my old age. Puh-leaze.

Just to say i realised that for me the best form of casual giving are the plastic tubs seen in stores, at the checkout, or till. Tho’ my monthly donations continue as ever, i confess that on work days i rarely respond to the rattle of collecting tins at the tube stations i use. Reason is i keep my purse in a big backpack (note to would-be pickpockets, there is a slavering pit bull in there too. So. Back. Off) and to locate my purse in the bag after unbuckling and unlacing it would shave, ooh, a whole minute off my flexi-time.

But when i am buying something that purse is out there. Unleashed. And i am always very pleased to see a tub in which to deposit the shrapnel ie the copper bits that silt up the zip bit. Also i am less bothered about which charity it is ie i would even give to the Red Cross.

Another benefit perhaps is that if i give like that, very publicly, maybe it will encourage the next customer to drop in some change. So lets have no till unflanked by a tub for your charity. You know it makes pence!

Just a question tho’ – how come a local whole food store has an orange tub for those poor little orangutans out there in Java Sumatra Borneo wherever, yet most of the peanut butter they sell is made using palm oil. For the production of which they are razing forests in which said primates live in order to create palm oil plantations? Dichotomy, innit.

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