Hi!  I specs you're busy, so just a couple of things, particularly at this time of over-everything.

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And one of the most obvious results of Poverty - Hunger

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Together we can do something about both hunger and poverty, at home and abroad.

Y'all have a good Christmas, and remember - Jesus is the Reason for the Season!
 

You may or may not have heard, Dear Reader, about the war currently going on in the Central African Republic.  It's bad, children are being taken as soldiers, women are being raped, many are being killed, up to half the population have been displaced from their land and are now refugees ( Read more... )

The literary among you, Dear Readers, may have come across Charles Kingsley’s “The Water Babies” - I did @ primary school.   Those who did may remember the characters Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby & Mrs Bedonebyasyoudid, I know which Tom preferred, I know whom I’d prefer.

I came home yesterday to find H with a pretty young woman in the front ( Read more... )

Oh I woke up this mawnin’, and it was five ay-emm.
        Yes I woke up this mawnin’, and it was five ay-emm.
        So I lay there, struggling, cos Sundays I don’t get up
        Before six, if I can help it,
        Then got up at five-fifty, I was too thirsty again.

Oh yeah!

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Oh I woke up this morning at twenty-past five,
        Yes I woke up this morning at twenty-past five,
        Got up, got a drink & was glad to be alive.
        Then picked up my email.  Hmmmm!

Oh . . .  Yeah . . .   Right!

The trouble was that I’d posted a comment to a ( Read more... )

    Oh I woke up last night, thirsty, about half-past two,
    Had a drink and then crafted - for something to do.
    Next I did me some blogging and chased up my friends’
    And so back to bed - but that wasn’t the end.

Well I woke up this morning, this time it was four.
    Had a drink, did some crafting, then crafted some more
    Finally ( Read more... )