So you have money left at the end of the month? Enough for a holiday, for Christmas? Chances are if you are a season ticket holder at a UK football club you do. Even if this is the case, and if you have a full time wage coming into the house, you’ll have noticed the cost of living a normal, socially-connected, life in the UK is not cheap.
Housing, travel, energy are all expensive. If you want to get or keep a job, a mobile phone is increasingly necessary. If the only wage coming into the house is low, or if you are bringing up a family, or if you are unwaged, or on your own with kids, you’re struggling. The heating will be rationed, Christmas is an annual worry you save for 11 months of the year, holidays are something other families talk about.
Life is miserable for many families, demeaningly so.
I heard a politician last week suggest food banks have burgeoned in recent years due to them being better advertised. I respectfully disagree. Food poverty exists across the UK, alongside heating and housing poverty. People eat toast, a tin of beans or a plate of chips as their main daily meal. Sometimes this is not even an option.
If you’re on a limited wage or keeping a family together on benefits your money will be gone before the next payment is in the bank, pretty much every week or month. You put the heating up during the cold spell last month and have now paid the bill. There’s will be no money for several days and there’s no food in the house. What do you do?
Fortunately food banks exist, not because they are a well marketed business success story, because hundreds of thousands of people in towns and cities across the country have no food before the next tranche of money arrives.
The Penny Dinners Brother Walfrid provided to kids in the east end of Glasgow, which Celtic were started to fund, resonate today. This is why today, on the 100th anniversary of Walfrid’s death, you are asked to bring a bag of provisions along to Celtic Park. That food is your way of paying into the social fund that gave you Celtic. There is a possibility that collectively, you will achieve something magnificent for some of the poorest families in Scotland.
While you’re in a listening mood, CQN’er Tommy Melly, an integral part of TeamOscar, is running the Great Edinburgh Run on Sunday for Neuroblastoma Children’s Cancer Alliance. He’s also doing the Glasgow 10k in June and the Great Scottish Run in October, all for NCCA. You can do your bit in memory of Oscar, and for those kids who fight on, here.
Have a great day at the football, I hear the banners on the stadium at the top of Celtic Way will be worth photographing.
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Not on tv as CL games are on.
You will get it on Celtic tv but not in the pub.
:-)
South of Tunis, Its an organised week’s tour arranged by a crowd called The Travel Department. We are spending 2 nights in Palermo and 5 nights in Giardoni Naxos. There are 4 or 5 tours included, Mount Etna, Taormina etc.
Cheers philboy
You’re welcome!
No NatKnow, what made me laugh was the Hun saying he didn’t want to see any clever one touch football from Sevco tonight and your retort to the effect “You have nothing to worry about then You Banger.
My local Tesco’s in Bo’ness has a food bank collection point.
I popped in one night to get salt.
As I sometimes do, I bought about half a dozen items for the foodbank.
As the collection point was about 5 yards from my checkout I didn’t bother with a carrier bag.
So, I carried the items over to the collection point and as my hands were full I just dropped the lot into the trolley.
I then bent over it and retrieved my salt, only to be accosted by an elder local lady accusing me of stealing from the bank!
Fortunately I still had my receipt and she saw the funny side.
OLD COW!!!!
corkcelt
19:19 on
15 April, 2015
No NatKnow, what made me laugh was the Hun saying he didn’t want to see any clever one touch football from Sevco tonight and your retort to the effect “You have nothing to worry about then You Banger.
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Sorry mate – I did wonder!! I was going by the time stamp.
Aye – what he said is actually hilarious. Weirdly, (unlike you and I) he didn’t even snigger as he said it!!!
Philbhoy
19:24 on
15 April, 2015
My local Tesco’s in Bo’ness has a food bank collection point.
I popped in one night to get salt.
As I sometimes do, I bought about half a dozen items for the foodbank.
As the collection point was about 5 yards from my checkout I didn’t bother with a carrier bag.
So, I carried the items over to the collection point and as my hands were full I just dropped the lot into the trolley.
I then bent over it and retrieved my salt, only to be accosted by an elder local lady accusing me of stealing from the bank!
Fortunately I still had my receipt and she saw the funny side.
OLD COW!!!!
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LOL! I have friends (now living in Winchburgh) who are originally from Borrowstouness, so I can well imagine that happening! :-))) Mentalists there, mate! ;-)))
Lads the live update thread is up.
Natknow
I never do a big shop there because all the sell it bread, totties and alcohol.
Oh, and salt!
:-)
About the at Rankers’ final-day fixture switch…
Anytime I’ve seen the phrase “sporting integrity” and “Rankers” in the same sentence, is when the sporting “advantage” leans towards that side of town called Malice.
Inside Paradise
Killie is a natty all orange number.
Philbhoy
19:35 on
15 April, 2015
Natknow
I never do a big shop there because all the sell it bread, totties and alcohol.
Oh, and salt!
:-)
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:-))
There are mentalists everywhere mate. I went to Gyle Shopping Centre last week to pick up my daughter and her mum. I parked in a Parent & Child space and there was clearly a kid’s car-seat in the motor. After I’d walked in a woman behind me grabbed me –
Her : “Do you have a child in that car?”
Me : “No”
Her “You parked in a Parent & Child space”
Me : “I know”
Her : “You can only park there if you have a child in the car”
Me : “Or if you intend to pick a child up from the shopping centre and put her in the car?”
Her : “Oh. Well, that’s OK then. I was just checking”
Me : “Sounds like you enjoy your job as Chief Parking Attendant?”
Her : “Harrumphhhh!!”
She was a shopper – like me! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!
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