LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME - 2022

I was watching TV earlier and there were only three ads in the break. All were for charities. They were all charities that I support in theory as they are good causes (one of them I have supported for sixty years) but it is charity overload.

I support quite a few charities but do not like being asked to donate a set amount per month. Also a lot of the ads on TV and radio ask you to send a text to a number to donate. They have lost me immediately as I don't have a mobile.

A couple of weeks ago we were at the local hospital and there was a stand outside from a charity. We wanted to give them some money but they said they can only accept a monthly donation and it needed to be done by text. They didn't even have a charity box on the table and I said I could provide them with one but they said no thanks. I wanted to give £20 cash and not the £2 per month they were asking. It was for a good cause, Air Ambulance, but it will now be added to what we give for mountain rescue as they take cash.

 

We have always continued to give to our chosen charities during hard times but not to additional charities during those times. Instead, we tried to give time to them instead. Typically, at Christmas and New Year, serving hot food (local charities or Salvation Army) to the homeless or struggling or helping with the running of local charities. At the moment we are working on seeing whether we can set up a 'Warm Spaces' locally.

 

We have selected charities but no regular donations, it's more as and when. I've also added them into my will. It's a tough call to give hard earned money away but I try to remember we're some of the richest people on the planet

 

My moan is actually for yesterday...

For the first time in ages, we decided to have a Chinese takeaway for dinner and I ordered Sweet and Sour chicken.

As I sat down with mine, with it on a tray (we don't have a table sadly, no space) the silly wee polystyrene cup that they send the sauce in wobbled and tipped, all over my leg and my foot. Of course, we had just heated it in the microwave to around 2ºc below the temperature of fresh lava, and I was wearing lounge shorts.





The photos don't really show the scalds all that well, but I can tell you for sure that it hurt with a capital 'F'! Lavender oil seems to have taken the worst of the sting out of it thankfully, but this is definitely not something I'd like to repeat

 

I don't give to cold callers - we don't get cold callers out in the sticks!