March 8, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Or green or blue or red. That is the rainbow i have had across the door mat this past month. I suspect we all get days when there is a stack of envelopes most of which are clearly unsolicited ie credit card companies begging for our custom (blessedly absent now) and charities after our money. [...]
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January 31, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Gaza. Not that proof were needed but Israel is the facistic bully it wanted to get away from. But then that’s what Paolo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed’ describes as happening – once the oppressed get out from under the only model they have of how to behave when no longer oppressed is to oppress [...]
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January 15, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Over half of my donations went to Afghanaid this month (Jan 2009). This arose from my googling a voluntary work colleague of mine who left 2 years back to run a centre supporting female MP’s in Afghanistan. Didn’t find anything current but it reminded me that i had wanted to send something to help that poor [...]
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January 5, 2009 at 9:47 am
While watching a film last week, during the ad breaks, there were ads/appeals for both the RSPCA and for the PDSA. Maybe it is that i don’t watch much TV and rarely watch that channel, but i could not recall seeing such before. Both the ads made the point that they have more work to [...]
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December 31, 2008 at 1:55 pm
That has to be the worst 4 letter word of all. Have never forgeotten reading Susan Brownmillers’ book years ago, ‘Against Our Will’ looking at how rape is used as a weapon – not just a threat in war but a way of proving concusively to a vanquished nation/army that they really are beat. ‘Not [...]
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November 30, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Isn’t that where we all did our homework? Actually i was the swot they were all copying from…
So, was asked to review the christmas appeals and therefore looked st the letters and inserts far more closely than i normally would. Overall the standard was woefully unimpressive selection. As expected not one envelope was cellophane free, [...]
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November 12, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Just about to finish the Rose George book – see last post. ‘The Big Necessity’. Can’t praise it too highly. And i’ve just come hot foot from the Wateraid site which – once one has gone past all the info re water supply projects – has a whole section on different types of latrines and [...]
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October 28, 2008 at 10:32 pm
You know how fickle i am, first all aquiver over Giles Bolton (his ‘Poor Story’ still a recommended read) and now i have swung the other way and got it hot for Rose George. She has published a book called ‘The Big Necessity’ which is all about human waste management. (Not so much chick lit [...]
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October 1, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Saw a banner for the London Evening Standard today saying ‘Companies slash charity donations’. Ouch! That has to hurt. It’s triple whammy isn’t it, to be paying higher food costs, higher utility bills, and now less corporate donations. And maybe the value of investments diminishing too. And governments cutting back to bail out finacial institutions? [...]
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August 26, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Finally had enough. Breadline Africa sent me three mailshots in 10 days. Two days ago i sent thm an e-mail to say that i would not be giving them any more money, and explained why – waste of money buying the envelopes, waste of the planets scarce resources in the paper for the envelopes and [...]
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