News that Southampton FC have nominated Mary’s Meals as their official international charity partner is a genuine great football story, and a significant landmark for the Scottish-based charity which now feeds over a millions children per day.
Mary’s Meals were in touch on Friday with news and photographs from the fourth school kitchen paid for by Celtic Quick News readers, in Chibwata, Malawi. Since the kitchen was built, school enrolment has increased by 34% to 1226 pupils. Each day over 4,000 pupils are fed in school kitchens built by CQN readers.
The school role has increased because of the availability of a daily meal, but as well as being better fed and healthier, hundreds of pupils are now getting an education who previously missed out. Benefits are not limited to food today, there are lifetime benefits of getting a primary education, which will help the pupils and the nation as a whole for decades.
Those of you who have put the occasional £1 into Appeal alongside the Magners’ competitions we run, or who have put significantly more than this on occasion, should be enormously proud of what you’ve achieved. It is a stunning testament to the Celtic support. Thanks for all your help.
Celtic have done enormous work with Mary’s Meals in the past through the Foundation but let’s hope this break into English football opens up many more opportunities for the charity.
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Off thread , just an enquiry. The senior members of our supporters club , had our Christmas night out on Saturday , we had dinner in a well known restaurant taverna In the merchant city . We had a fabulous meal no complaints there , but we noticed an item in the bill , for a table of 8 or more , (we had 8 ), there was a 10% service charge added , which in our case amounted to £48 86 . 1 to 7 no charge . Is this normal practice .
HT
Thats fair doos in my book.
P67’s intervention was required bhoys IMO, it was getting a chore coming on here,we are all capable of so much better, and bringing back the thunder.HH
Its aw canamalars fault anyway
!!Bada Bing!! on 7th December 2015 8:17 pm
Correct….!!!!
“Wonder if anyone else has been affected by the data usage issue ?”
Big cup,
Aye.
Me, Clink and HT
Both Awe naw and myself(amongst others) posted possible solutions but are obviously all on yer ignore list :)
I think the easiest way is to use a separate browser for cqn only. Opera mini is my preferred one. Not great but does the job.
HH
Bada
True dat.
HH
Decent game between Everton & Palace, hoping for an Everton win just to see Pardew’s coupon at the end….
Jimtim
Im a chef maself. You can refuse to pay a service charge, which you always should if its on a bill. Fact is. A service charge is normally paid on a card and the staff never see it. Reject that ( oops nearly swore again there) stuff.
GM
Haw grumpy I didn’t ignore ye :-)
What exactly do I do to install opera mini?
Herbo is back pending appeal or has the red been rescinded? :)
Tonymcglennan csc
Vincent Lunney joined the Provos son
jimtim
it is a charge you should have been made aware of somewhere before eating
It WILL go to the staff in any decent eatery paid by card or cash
CQN wants Ultra :-D
HT,
Ha! I didn’t say you did neebs. :)
I’m no sure about IPhones. I’m guessing you download it as per from the app store.
The mini version gives you a couple of data saving options.
I use 3 browsers without much probs. Chrome for general browsing, opera mini for cqn and firefox for birthday presents :)))
HH
Andrew jennins investigation into Blatter just started on beeb 1
HH
GeordieM
Aye it is, pity the wife has the remote for inside, and my sat box outside doesn’t pick up the BBC, wimmin, Corrie is more important :-)
HH
And I do mean outside.
Canamalar
Must say I found the Assad stuff quite interesting. Surprised you got pulled up on it.
But there you go
Tet,
Aye Monday night is mad soap night in here too.
HH
Awe_naw, he’s there now but don’t worry, thanks anyway.
Personally I have found the blog too time consuming of late. This has been a mixture of trying to cut through the vitriol between certain posters but mainly due to the new format causing problems with logging out and constantly reloading which now appears to be sorted with the temporary removal of JavaScript which seems to prevent YouTube from loading. So if you are posting a YouTube clip it may not load without JavaScript?
Enjoying Everton. Palace match but the toffee fans seem to be very impatient
GM
I really wouldn’t know where to start with all that mate. I’ll go and try though, thanks sir.
Dunno if anyone seen the chat last night about synthetic pitches and weans fitbaw and rain.
Anyway. I said to a chap who does a bit of coaching at the Pig n Whistle, told him to get a mouldmaster. He just text me there saying Im onto something. Synthetic pitch, rubber baw for the weans. Makes sense.
Herbo
And like a rubber ball you come bouncing back too⚽️⚽️⚽️
We’ve all (well lots of us) been on the receiving end for inappropriate posts ☘☘☘
Noel Gallagher on bbc red button
GeordieM
I read many many years ago, when Corrie was on twice a week, that 40 million hours a week are wasted watching it, something like 2.6 people per household etc.
Imagine doing something for charity or your local community for that 40 mill hours, makes you think so it does :-)
HH
BT
Mate.. Im absolutely delighted it was for the swearing to be honest. If it was for other things there would have been an onslaught :-)
Only jestin
Its fair enough
HT,
Aye it was clear as mud to me too and I wrote it :))
Good luck
HH
HERBO
Make sure they use a size 3 ball, a standars ball is far to big for weans.
HH
This FIFA corruption lark is incredible….they must have had a similar relationship with the meeja as sdm…..
Tet
To be fair they do use an appropriate sized baw anywhere my bhoy has been. A size 3 from 5 to 7 then onto a size 4 until about primary 7 age. My point is the leather balls are like bars of soap on the synthetic pitches when its wet. Fella there I was talking about got a mitre mouldmaster from Mike Ashleys workhouse today and said at training tonight it was a lot better. Of course, its kinda dry tonight even in Springburn but I reckon its a shout.
HERBO
That’s good to hear, I used to coach weans years ago when the young fella was at school, and the bother we had with the school was astonishing, a few of the fathers who were into footy got together and took over the footy team, but we didn’t envisage the head trying to impose what had always been done, we got there in the end, and lo and behold, they started winning :-)
HH
Oh for an Andrew Jennings type to look into the shenanigans of the standard bearers of unsurpassed dignity in G51 and their cohorts at Hampden.
Andrew Jennings , well done on sticking to your guns.
Herbo…
Like TET says, a says a size 3 or 4 even, don’t put too much air in, as I dreaded having to heedie those bricks the opposing goalie would punt oot :((
Paul
Nice article today.
Twilight Zone link. The Three Marys CSC
Celtic founded in St Mary’s Church Hall.
Southampton founded as St Mary’s Church Young Men’s Association football team.
Mary’s Meals are also one of our three adopted good causes.
http://wp.me/p6DYht-qk
No One Walks Alone
Tet
Its a thankless task. I see the joy tho when the weans crack it on coaches faces in a game. As the great Pele said, its beautiful. I always say to my bhoy before every game. Its a game and games are made to be fun. Too many da’s coaches put the wee chaps under pressure. Thats the real crux of the issue in my eyes. I dont care if my bhoy signs for Celtic, I just want him to enjoy the feeling you can get from nutmegging a big lanky dafty or smashing in it the postage stamp
An Tearmann
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