Generosity is a big piece of the jigsaw
On Friday I got a parcel. It was a jigsaw puzzle. I had mentioned to someone during a phone conversation that as a family, during lockdown, we had developed this love for puzzles. We have done quite a few. We ordered a couple online, three we got during a 2m social...
Out of Control
At the beginning of every year I always have a general idea of what the next 12 months will look like. Not necessarily specifics, but enough for my mind to meander forward several weeks and months ahead of me, with mental lists of things to do or to get, in...
Rapid Response Update
We have been overwhelmed by the generosity shown by our donors over the last 3 weeks. We launched our COVID response fund knowing that something had to be done. This week we began distributing the funds raised. So far, we have sent enough money to Zambia to buy food...
Unprecedented? Or Same Old, Same Old?
Unprecedented? Or same old, same old…? There is nothing else for most of us to think about than the strange and unusual circumstances forced on us by the novel coronavirus, Covid-19. The shock at the speed with which it has gone from being nothing at all to basically...
Coronavirus Rapid Response Fund Update
We have been running our Coronavirus Rapid Response fund for one week now and have been blown away by the response. Thanks to the generosity of our donors we have raised over £700, for which we are very grateful. As the global pandemic ages by one more week the...
COVID Rapid Response Fund
This week while I was thinking about the subject of our blog I really wanted it to not be about COVID-19. I wanted to talk about something different. It seems to be all we talk about, but then again it is a pandemic that has gripped the world. The centre of the...
Blind Spots
A few months ago I stopped listening to music on my daily commute, I instead began to listen to audiobooks and podcasts and short stories. I could give some philosophical explanation as to why I made this change. However, the real reason is I just find it makes the...
Together In Isolation
This week I attended my sister’s funeral service. It had been quite a challenge to organise, made more difficult with all the restrictions in place because of Covid 19. We had planned a church service, where we expected quite a number to attend, followed by a...
Don’t Be Tough, Be Wooly
What a crazy couple of weeks! It was just 3 weeks ago that I wrote my blog about our perspective when looking at the coronavirus. Now it seems that I could have been accused of playing the whole scenario down. This week saw a catalogue of closures and increased...
Let’s Talk About Periods
Periods. I can’t say I have ever met someone who enjoys having their monthly period, yet unfortunately, this is something that most women will have to deal with for a good 30-40 years of their life. If you start your period at age 12 and stop menstruating at age 50,...