I was a bit gutted to see that in their latest LifeSkills advert, Barclays have opted for the old ‘C’mon kids! If you can’t make effective eye contact – you’ll be on the job scrap heap forever!’ approach. I would have hoped that Barclays – given their oodles of dosh – could have thought a […]
Longing for School (Kicking Off At The Post Office!)
It’s well depressing for the them, isn’t it? Just look at their mugs on the photo. Gawd help ’em. Having to go back to a life of riley where they receive a free education, free nosh (well…if they’re attending an infant school – from this term onwards) and free access to a whole host of […]
David and Victoria Beckham. See you over the Cornflakes. Okay?
We are currently holed-up in a (‘well-posh’) caravan. Here in the Yorkshire Dales. We come to this wee hidey-hole very often. And this weekend we are up for a double treat. Because the Tour de France is heading – literally – past the end of our lane. Twice! On Saturday 5th and then again on […]
Comic Remedies
….Part 7 (Dictated to me by small, guest blogger/daughter.) “My mum said that I can have the last blog where we talk about the street children in Namibia.The very last thing we did that day – on the day when all of these pictures were taken – after we gave the children all of the […]
Do they need a Madonna? Or an Angelina?
… Part 6 By now you might be thinking this; these street children, these vulnerable nippers in Epako (or in any former township in southern Africa) who helps them to survive? Why don’ t they have parents around? There are many answers to the last question. Disease is the biggie. HIV/AIDS being the obvious one. […]
Simon Says?
Part 5 Simon didn’t say much. He didn’t have the energy to. Simon (pronounced ‘Sih-mon’ in Afrikaans) is 10 years old but weighs much less than my own 6 year old boy. Who is hardly a big lad himself. Simon is malnourished. Along with his sister, he is an orphan and sleeps wherever he can […]