Apologies for absence yesterday, the day got away from me. The blog would have said something like, “really pleased Celtic pushed back so vocally against the illiberal and ill-conceived Offensive Behaviour Act”, but with less brevity.
Shortly before Christmas we launched the campaign to fund the construction of a school kitchen in Malawi through Mary’s Meals to mark the 10th anniversary of Celtic Quick News. The project would cost £7000 and to get us there we scheduled a St Patrick’s Day dinner dance for next Friday, 14 March.
8 days out I am delighted to inform you the target money has been raised, Mary’s Meals already have £7000 in their bank, the project is officially funded and construction plans are underway.
That the money was raised ahead of the event was a surprise, although after 10 years of watching Celtic fans go about their business in this manner, it shouldn’t have been.
We received a remarkable donation from Patrick Foley’s Irish Bar & Restaurant in Gent, and Barney Vallely’s Irish Pub in Cologne, who between them raised €2600.
You don’t think of Gent and Cologne as being big ‘Celtic towns’. I’m sure they are not, but there enough Celtic fans in each city to form a proper community. Their work has been incredible and a real inspiration. Thank you to Patrick, Charlie and their patrons. Special thanks to Kolncelt, who orgainsed the entire effort, but has had to cancel his trip to Glasgow next week.
This gave us a problem, of course, The Show is going ahead next week, but the kitchen at the Kholoni Primary School is already paid for, what will be our focus next week. Here is a remind of what that £7000 is going to achieve:
Mary’s Meals feed 822,142 kids each day across some of the most impoverished areas of the world. The global average annual cost per child is £10.70, and is only £7 in Malawi, where the Kholoni Primary School is.
Kitchens are brick constructed and fully stocked with stoves, pots, serving utensils, mugs and cutlery. They also have a wall-mounted blackboard, so the room can be used as a classroom outside of meal times.
The charity started in 2002 when founder Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow met a mother dying of AIDS, and her child, whose only ambition was to have enough food to eat.
93% of money raised goes directly to the needy and, where possible, the 65,000 volunteers who keep the project running are drawn from parents and relatives of the children being fed.
The impact in Malawi, 17th poorest country by UN measures, is significant. Mary’s Meals provide a daily meal to 20% of the countries primary school aged children. The impact is more than just feeding the hungry, two years after a Mary’s Meals project in Malawi starts, school enrolment is up an average of 30%, leading to higher educational achievements, and a better chance in life.
I’m open to ideas on what to focus on next week but my instinct is to get back onto Mary’s Meals and ask where they next need a kitchen.
A couple of pairs of tickets have become available for Friday’s CQteN St Patrick’s Day at the Kerrydale Suite, Celtic Park. £50 per ticket, dinner, dancing, two acts, Irish dancers; it is shaping up to be quite an event. Email Tony if you want to be there, cqnbooks@gmail.com
We have a donations page for CQN Mary’s Meals’ projects, if you would like to help out, you can do so here.
Seville, The Celtic Movement, launches this month.
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Auldheid, I’m listening to the podcast you linked and re the safe standing, can you educate this dramming thicko. JPT is talking about “rail seats”. What are they? He mentions Dortmund and Hanover but I’m not familiar with their grounds.
Any pictures of what he’s talking about?
Fanx bruv
Weefra
I have just bot chooks to lay eggs, no the may west of choice here, they lay white eggs, that I know, as for the turkeys, they will be for the eating, no eggs will be forthcoming sadly, and like your good self, have never had a turkey egg, had many others, must make it a priority >}
HH
Weefra, I’m a clean living carnivore, I was going to ask if I could purchase one of your beasts, obviously after the specific skills of a damn fine butcher had been applied to it. I’d even be willing to give it a go myself with ma fishing knife but I’d need a few specimens to practice on and it could get pricey:-))
HH
BRTH
That will be Sandy Lane golf course. As I don’t play golf I have never used it, sneaked onto the hotel beach a few times mind you.
On the same vein I was enjoying a cool Banks beer of an evening down in St Lawrence Gap talking to a Dublin man who had a house in the area and was a regular visitor to Barbados.
DD’s name came up because of the Barbados connection and this guy spoke very highly of him and how he had gone out of his way to help out someone in a bit of financial trouble. Not big money to DD but it was to the guy he helped and not something DD needed to get involved in at all and the fella I spoke to was very generous in his praise.
acgr
Rail seats….. http://www.safestandingroadshow.co.uk/news/scotlandleadstheway-7groundsin5days
HH
A Ceiler Gonof Rust Says Hail Hail Big Fraser
N but Eddieinkirkmichael posted about them a few pages back.
Sleep well Timland
HH
KTF
THE EXILED TIM
23:50 on
6 March, 2014
ttt
As I said earlier, she is over the moon, she was getting a bit down that everyone wanted their cut, agents = parasites, but a publisher, Pegasus, got in touch direct, that has given me a problem getting her back to planet earth >}
It will be a while yet obviously, they even asked if she had more stuff, and she does.
Thanks.
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Tell the good lady well done. I am sure she will be delighted.
Neganon
Can I back up something my lunch partner ( God help me! ) has said?
Auldheid and I first talked outside Celtic park after an AGM– might be 3-4 years ago now and both of us came at the whole issue of Celtic PLC from the same angle– namely that a PLC structure wasn’t the best and that it would be better if we had a membership scheme which brought about greater fan engagement.
Over the piece we shared some thoughts on the matter and Pat sent one of my mad charity ideas — the idea of the Green mile — into the club which resulted in me being asked to go and see the then heid bummer at the Celtic Charity Foundation– although it wasn’t called that then.
That lead me to end sitting on a committee — and i have avoided committees like the plague all my life — which was designed to promote greater fan engagement in the charitable ethos of the club and to try and persuade the club to do more and different things for charity.
A wee while later, I suggested that the committee be widened and as a result asked Paul67 to join the group — which continues to evolve and grow.
The last meeting I went to was last Saturday before the Aberdeen game.
Now, I come from a business background. I have been up close and personal with Celtic personnel in relation to the charity stuff and in relation to CQN books, CQ10 and so on.
Latterly also with Res 12.
In many instances, I would do things differently to the way the club personnel do things. I think they are sometimes not radical enough or perhaps responsive enough– equally I think working at Celtic Park can be like being in a Goldfish bowl. I also know ( quite separately ) more than a few ex Celtic employees who will tell tales of why they left and all that– some of which does not show Celtic PLC in the best of lights.
However, the people I have met don’t strike me as anything other than either Celtic fans or people who are truing their best. Sometimes I think Celtic employ too many people who are fans — and should employ people who might be a bit more hard nosed in terms of dealing with authorities and so on— Celtic fans tend to be protective of the club and its reputation and that gets played upon.
Sometimes I think some people get the impression that if you work closely with the club you will be swayed and can be bought off by the prestige of it all– yet inside Celtic park is just like any other office building and it is not nearly as plush or impressive or intimidating as many I have been in over the years.
What I am trying to say is that Celtic PLC can do things better than they do– God I have at least one area where I could scream at them for missing the point and the opportunities — but the people that are there– many of them at least — do what they think is right on a daily basis and at all times ( as far as I can see ) try to serve the interests of the club.
That doesn’t make them and their decisions immune from criticism and scrutiny — It just makes the scrutiny and criticism reasonable and hopefully progressive as opposed to being merely negative.
Neganaon
Anyone who has a net worth of circa £1800 Million MUST be by definition out of touch with reality!!!
For no other reason than I thought it interesting
Apparently it is true that the reality of the situation of Campbell Ogilvie’s re-election is/was that he was re-elected because there were no other candidates who were put forward or who put themselves forward.
OK I’ve heard that before, but I believe Turnbull Hutton
lymmbhoy, thanks. Makes perfect sense now, a very clever piece of engineering. I also have to thank you for reposting my comment to livibhoy the other night.
Hail Hail bruv
Auldheid, see lymmbhoy’s link, they look the biz. I’d like one myself.
That’s the first time I’ve heard JPT talking and I enjoyed listening. There more than a few questions he couldn’t answer and some answers were vague but he comes across as a very honest plausible guy. I look forward to the next interview after the next forum to see if any of the unanswered questions and vagueness have been clarified.
Fan zones, cafe’s and face painters. I’m good with the first two but if they ever need to paint vaguepunters coupon they’d need to hire the dulux team and stick a broom handle up the arse of wan of them fluffy dugs to use as a roller. The big lanarkshire gangster’s got more front than blackpool.
BRTH @ 00.44 –
Make of it what I will?
Apropos of DD –
Not sure why you
a) choose to advertise just how much better-informed you are than the commonalty
b) elect to regale said commonalty with some sort of gnostic allusion, rather than making simple, unambiguous statements…
Why not be direct in your uncommonly well-informed assessment of DD? The rest of us are pretty much devoid of such data, and when someone elects to parade their very special knowledge, we tend to wonder, “What the fricken hell does this individual wish to say?”
You describe a DD, seemingly nuts about the gowff, but who eschews talking about gowff whilst playing gowff as a direct consequence of his continuous obsession with the minutiae of Celtic and the running of Celtic. Apparently the man’s in something of an OCD mode, mashie in his mitt yet dead set on talking Celtic, Celtic, Celtic.
I can but assume that were he to give his attention to The Gowff, his handicap might be lower.
I can but assume that for some terribly odd reason, he obsesses (q.v.s) over Celtic whilst indulging in his beloved gowff, yet elects to contribute bugger all to the club; or at least, bugger all that is readily identifiable to those of us not privy to the inside info.
Billionaire obsessive, requires daily team news, views scouting videos, and yet figures mainly as an entity in the accouts, owning a shitload of preference shares. Okay, nothing wrong with that characterisation – save that it’s pretty much unbelievable…
geordie munro
17:35 on 6 March, 2014VpAre you badas Dad?That’s the sorta text I send to my folks. Lol
He’s auld enough mate …:))
BTW I have experienced -6 in EK and now NY,I know which one i prefer.Just read back ,some good debates today.HH
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/celtic-to-challenge-holyrood-over-sectarian-laws-1-3328875?WT.mc_id=Outbrain_text&obref=obinsite
This ,of course,won`t mollify some of our supporters who think that our club and its representatives are liars.
acgr @ 01.19
You’re very welcome.
Livibhoys post was one of the best on here recently as was your reply.
HH
BRTH, is big Dessie really worth £1800 million? Wow, that’s more than enough to bring Messi to paradise next season including his buy out clause, buy the continent of Africa and still leave him enough petty cash to get lessons that will see him shoot less than his age off the ladies tee’s.
I always wished our club could have a sugardaddy (akin to the fivers for tenners Dave who wheeled his ass oota the clusterfack over on the southside) to splurge money on our collective vision of Celtic.
I’ll look out for Dessie at this year’s Dunhill Cup and be sure to chuck a fiver in his cap.
Goodnight Celtic Men and Wummin. We Are Celtic and we always will be.
It’s only quarter past ten here ….:))
!BADA BING!
All the attractions of The Big Apple,and you still come back to us maggots on the blog….
I reckon yer only doing it to wind up VOGUEPUNTER
Hope you are enjoying it,mate.
Are you gonna miss Cheltenham,or did you factor that in? My parents are over in Tenerife,and somehow my Dad forgot the date clash-he thought it was the following week,the one with St Patrick’s Day in it!
I told him to think of the money he will save. He told me I was a Philistine for even thinking that way.
Actually not sure Philistine was the word he used,started wi an eff sound anyway.
macjay,
You have never questioned, even in your own head, whether our club’s “representatives” are liars?
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Auldheid,
I echo Neganon’s comments. You are indeed the stalwart that could keep out support united.
BMCUW,
Bada is a moon-howler wannabe.
Seen enough of them to know they don’t last the test of time :)
PS Macjay, I always liked the word “mollify”. It implies us angry ones should soften out attitude, while young Celtic Supporters are being persecuted for…..supporting Celtic.
Or is it because the rozzers have the same fear as you, that they’re trying to start a Marxist revolution…?
!BADA BING!
Isn’t FFM a big brave lad when yer outa the country?
Doncha worry about it,bud-I’ll remind you of his weasel words on May 10.
FFM
Ffs,have you forgotten how big Bada is? And his two minders?
You back on the Smartprice,ya madman?
BMCUW,
Only following doctor’s orders :)
I’d welcome Bada Bing into the moon-howlers’ club. It’s the reaction of the rest of you cliquey bollocks I can’t speak for :))
PS I move to add MWD into position as convener, and Mags as Associate Member so unanswerable questions can be asked. Could be a powerful movement.
BCUW…03.30
Making no comment either….
Please delete.
JUSTAFAN
For what reason?
Not being confrontational by asking,btw. Just wondering.
Bada Bing
WRAP UP ! well the morra big chap.hh
VOGUEPUNTER
Drying ground down Cheltenham way,no rain till it’s over.
Boaby
I’m with justafan on this ….disgusting bastard should not sully oor blog.
Boaby
mind let me know yir picks next week…..need to work like a Trojan to get my beer vouchers :O)
Gone to bed ,night night all ,hh
BMCUW..
No confrontation…
Can’t think of any worthwhile reason why it was posted on here at all…
JUSTAFAN,VOGUEPUNTER
Fair enough. I’ll mail Paul and request it be deleted.
VOGUEPUNTER
Advice is to listen to my picks,discard,and pick one of the other horses in the race!
One of the big things I really miss being over here . . . the Cheltenham Festival.
That was where I won a fortune on Desert Orchid.
Loved it every year.
Top of the morning to you all from a still-dark Fife where it is lashing down.
Reading back to the heart-warming tales of the Great Desmondo from BRTH with support from Auldheid, and if I didn’t know better I would say they were straight off the DD PR Dpt.
And there was me thinking DD was no better (but smarter) than an Irish Minty!
I feel ashamed of myself now that I have read the truth about our Great Leader.
Must wipe away a tear and get on with my baking.
FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)
03:29 on
7 March, 2014
macjay,
You have never questioned, even in your own head, whether our club’s “representatives” are liars?
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Never occurred to me that our club`s representatives and by that I mean the Board would intentionally deceive the supporters by lying to us.
What could their motivation possibly be?
Course,haven`t lived in Scotland for 30 years.You may be able to enlighten me.
Frankly,I would find it difficult to support an organisation which I KNEW was lying to me.
I`m not interested in suspicion.I like certainty.
And the presumption of innocence.