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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San Diego Boy
If you are looking in where is the best place to watch Celtic games locally?
Arrive Sunday the 24th at circa 5PM so in plenty of time to catch a 12:30 kick off in Glasgow.
Celtic bars showing nothing, sandiegoceltic.com website is shut down also.
Cheers,
RobinBhoy
Aff oot ;-)
Could soneone post the list of items that the foodbanks are looking for again please?
Thunder road,
From last night….
– Sugar (500g)
– Fruit juice (carton)
– Soup , Pasta sauces, Tomatoes (tinned)
– Cereals
– Tea Bags/instant coffee
– Rice/pasta
– Tinned meat/fish, Tinned fruit
– Jam, Biscuits or snack bars
– M&M’s no blue ones please
-1 ltr creme de menth
A couple of items might not be on the actual list :)
Thunder Road
– Sugar (500g)
– Fruit juice (carton)
– Soup , Pasta sauces, Tomatoes (tinned)
– Cereals
– Tea Bags/instant coffee
– Rice/pasta
– Tinned meat/fish, Tinned fruit
– Jam, Biscuits or snack bars
San Diego Bhoy
25th of May that is………….
gm
Just packed my stuff for http://torquay.vic.au/service/torquay-food-aid
All out of blue m&ms (thankfully) but did manage to pack some treats for the kids.
HH
16 Roads”
“the rank hypocrisy of Communism”
Do you mean the rank hypocrisy of a country/state calling itself Communist when it clearly isn`t or do you actually have strong feelings about Communism?
JJ
Thought I heard something on the radio about the play-off teams wanting to keep more of the gate money, but can’t see anything on the web. Anyone hear anything?
Anything to do with a certain club who were going to “lose out” on mega-billions???
Lymmbhoy,
Lol
Did you remove the brown ones?
Vanhalen csc
Taranis
No luck with email addy.
I can meet you Friday lunchtime around 12:45 @ drop off zone top of Queens St at Queen St station. If that suits you working on George Sq.
MWD said AYE
Anyway, I am off out for a wee while to purchase some tins for the Collection tonight. Practising my own brand of Communism 0:-). That 0:-) is a gentle smile rather than a guffaw. Are there varieties of smiles on the Keyboard??
JJ
Guys.
Another thing to consider for foodbank is
Kids nappies
Wipes
Soup
Toothpaste
Toiletries.
Etc.
MWD said AYE
glasstwothirdsfull
13:17 on 15 April, 2015Thought I heard something on the radio about the play-off teams wanting to keep more of the gate money, but can’t see anything on the web. Anyone hear anything?Anything to do with a certain club who were going to “lose out” on mega-billions???
i think Hibs are behind it,as it stands the league take 50% of play off gate money i believe.
16 roads – Celtic über alles…
13:02 on 15 April, 2015
You sound like you’re on a crusade.
If you know what I mean.
Historical myth eh.
I don’t recall in my extensive reading, any mention of Marx killing anyone.
Marx was not a Bolshevik.
Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky….now that’s a different matter.
Lazy Journalism indeed.
BTW….Im not a Marxist.
HH
gm
Thankfully brown is banned in Oz :)
Off to bed now…..v early rise to watch The Bhoys tomorrow morning.
HH
Rab Douglas got sectarian abuse and abuse about his family,playing for Forfar against those scumbags from Airdrie on Saturday.I’m sure Ballantyne will be all over it…..
jungle jim hot smoked
13:16 on 15 April, 2015
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I actually hate Communism, the idea, the leaders, the system, the ideology, the disciples of Communism, the followers.
Communism, in my humble opinion, is the definition of hypocrisy
Most of all though, I despise the evil creators like Marx and Engels whom conjured it up to begin with.
Thanks.
HH.
Id also like to add….that Marxist-Leninism, is not the same thing as Marxism.
Lenin’s NEP policy, doesn’t seem like Marx to me.
But what do I know:)
HH
Groucho was my favourite……
Bada Bing
Hmmmm – weren’t Hibs in the play-offs last year and didn’t say anything…..?
Lot of fuss last week about how much Sevco would “lose”. Maybe Hibs are just the messenger boys?
ernie lynch
13:26 on 15 April, 2015
16 roads – Celtic über alles…
13:02 on 15 April, 2015
You sound like you’re on a crusade.
If you know what I mean.
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I know exactly what you mean.
But that’s just another example of the old Left wing whataboutery.
The Crusades eh?
Incredible, and absolutely necessary.
HH.
Thunder Road
13:06 on 15 April, 2015
Could someone post the list of items that the foodbanks are looking for again please?
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According to some people on here all you need to bring is a bookie’s slip and a pen….
Geordie – I find it odd that you find it odd (etc etc).
Tom I dont think you can say I was slaughtering you – I was just ruminating on why some of us dont want to believe what is staring right at us. I dont think disagreeing with me is a major crime – just wrong :). Best wishes to your mum.
Weeminger I think that Paul’s post is perfectly fine. However I think it is perfectly legitimate to be concerned at the increasing tendancy to news manage on CQN. The spin that Celtic have put out about the SB increase (which you have repeated) is laughable. If the huns had done that we would be absolutely howling with laughter at it. As for your approach of if you dont agree with Paul then go away…….well thats just schoolground stuff is it not?
To blame Marx for Lenin and Stalin.
Would be like blaming Jesus for the Crusades, or the Inquisition.
HH
the green man
13:34 on 15 April, 2015
Id also like to add….that Marxist-Leninism, is not the same thing as Marxism.
Lenin’s NEP policy, doesn’t seem like Marx to me.
But what do I know:)
HH
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It’s a nonsense, all pretence. Marx,Lenin, Trotsky
The objective was always to attempt to slaughter as many Christians as possible.
HH.
‘I never forget a face, but in your case I’d be glad to make an exception.’
– Groucho Marx
call me Gerry “How long is a piece of string?” My guess – twice the length from one end to the middle. Hail Hail Hebcelt
NegAnon2
13:38 on
15 April, 2015
It’s not spin because each season we have had the reduction they have stated that that’s what it is.
There is a world of difference between stating
a)in year 1 that your ST is now £450 due to a discount from it’s price of £550 then in year 2 and year 3 that it has not increased from £450 and;
b) in yr 1 that your ST is now £450 due to a discount from it’s price of £550, in yr 2 that your ST is now £450 due to a discount from it’s price of £550, in yr 3 that your ST is now £450 due to a discount from it’s price of £550
That’s how it’s been done. Every year I’ve been told that the price of my ST is x but I’m getting a discount of £100. This year I’m getting a £50 discount. I always budget for the full price and this year the difference will be used to get the youngster a ticket, as he’s asked to go to all the games I go to.
I never thought the discount was indefinite and to be frank I’m surprised they kept doing it this long.
16 roads
Marx was a political journalist and theorist, slightly different from Russian Bolshevik revolutionaries….don’t you see the difference?
As for your comment about Christians, id dispute that.
HH
Hebcelt
Great joke, my maths teacher sister tells that one a lot!
Hail hail
“We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”
Karl Marx.
16 roads – Celtic über alles…
13:43 on 15 April, 2015
‘The objective was always to attempt to slaughter as many Christians as possible.’
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I’d like to think you’re joking, but I suspect you really are that blinkered and deluded.
glasstwothirdsfull
“You know that money we all agreed to share? Anyone mind if I just keep it?” http://sport.stv.tv/football/clubs/hibernian/317251-hibernian-bid-to-keep-bigger-share-of-premiership-play-off-gate-receipts/ …
16 roads
I will repeat….Karl Marx never killed anyone, no matter what he said.
Its a well established fact.
Show me where, what source, where’s your evidence that Marx killed anyone?
the green man
13:49 on 15 April, 2015
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An estimated 60million Christians perished in the Soviet Union alone.
Conservative estimate.
HH.
What is the correct expression “until it is mathematically/ arithmetically impossible” re relegation or winning the league? My money is on arithemetically. H H Hebcelt