In recent weeks hundreds of you have contributed to our Mary’s Meals project to build a school kitchen in Malawi for the 1221 pupils who are enrolled at the Kholoni Primary School in Mchinii, and then for the 746 pupils at St Joseph’s Primary in Kasungu.
The £7000 required for the first school reached Mary’s Meals some weeks ago and the building was opened and serving meals yesterday.
Here it is:
We have a lot to do today but there is an excellent chance that the £7000 required for St Joseph’s will be raised and in Mary’s Meals account before 470 of us sit down in the Kerrydale Suite for the CQteN St Patrick’s Day dinner tonight.
Here’s what you’ve done. You have funded two facilities which between them will feed 1967 children, all of whom live below the UN measure of absolute poverty, in the 17th poorest country in the world.
Most days, for almost all children, this will be their main meal, it will often be their only meal. As a result, they will attend school in greater numbers, 30% greater, if they are an average Mary’s Meals, Malawi, school. They will gain a better education and have better opportunities in life. They will build stronger bodies, more able to resist infection. Child mortality will fall.
The spirit of Brother Walfrid, of Celtic, is alive within you. You can get involved here.
See you at the party!
Seville, The Celtic Movement, launches tonight.
“CNN reported that on the day before the game 3% of the earth’s flying population were all headed for Seville and were sporting a Celtic scarf – a statistic that no sector of industry could ignore and which would change the policy of many airlines as a result.”
Order yours here:
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A fantastic achievement by all who frequent (and run) CQN. Many congratulations.
Can we get the building contractor over to do work here. They are clearly not your average builder. Bravo.
sftb,
Quite right about Tony Watt. He is there, because he needs to grow up. Hope he does.
First pint. Was bought for me by my Dad in some pub down by the Clyde. I was about 15 and looked younger. The barman questioned my age but my Dad told him a big white lie. I think it was a pint of lager but can’t really remember.
First pint for me was lager, Tennents I up think, 1982, aged 15, poured by Penny, the beautiful blonde in the Station Bar in Stirling. Penny was actually around 60 at the time, but as she poured that pint she was a vision.
Whats the name of the pub in Ropework Lane opps Slaters in Howard Street,Rangers boozer I think.
I’m getting worried now, reports of strong winds in Glasgow.
I paid a fortune for this hairdo!!!!!!!!!!
Looks a serious injury for Ruby. May not be back this season.
1st pint, sparkies in CarD in 1988, 16 years old
First pint……..
International Bar, Alexander Street, Clydebank 1975 (as a 15 year old ;)…….probably about 23p a pint for Harp lager then.
The 146 bus took us right to the door.
Jeez I thought…
I had forgotten all about that! Ha!
Annie Millers,a hun cesspit
Badabing @13:49
What happened to her
Doc
I’m getting worried now, reports of strong winds in Glasgow.
I paid a fortune for this hairdo!!!!!!!!!!
Surely, not from the gynecologist ?
right, that’s me finished in Livingston. Collected Beanie hats so if you have ordered one it will be there. Drive along the M8 suited and booted and back ooot the door to Paradise.
See you all there.
HH Paddybhoy
Skol Magpie Falkirk Circa 1976
First Black Russian Roseland Sauchiehall Street Circa 1978
ernie lynch
13:31 on 14 March, 2014
Did anyone actually
Aye :)) playing about 18 a side for over three hrs ,then was asked if I fancied trying to “get in” for a pint.
as someone said earlier the rest is history :)))
Ps it was in The Cage on Clydesdale Rd Mossend.
Is the Hangman’s Rest still on the street just off Glassford Street…??
sawdustonthefloorCSC……Best of everyhing to all in attendance tonight…HH
Tony Benn R.I.P
When I look at the Labour party today I could weep.
Till tonight all
mickbhoy1888
14:07 on 14 March, 2014
Or was it Pernod and black currant or maybe even a Moscow Mule
Off to Scotland for the CQN10, it’ll be great to meet some auld friends and those friends I’ve yet to meet!
Not letting the cat oot the bag CSC
HH
The Bungalow in Gourock in 1973 so 15/16….they had a wee separate off licence bit which seemed specifically designed for selling pints to people not even slightly stricken in years.
I seem to remember it being 13p for heavy and 15 for lager (doesn’t gel with others who remember heavy being more expensive).
When it came around to license renewal time, we had no chance. Not even the most convincing recital of a made up date of birth was of any use.
Glasgowdave.
Jim, Denny,Theresa,Marie,Maggie.
Dad was john mum Sadie.
They also lived in Dalilea Dr.
My wife’s cousins, she was from Buchlyvie st.
Me, I’m a Bar-L bhoy
Whisky on the tables
CQTEN Programmes on 470 places
Inserted Pat Mcginley’s last Celtic goal leaflet
Copies of Cqn Annual on tables
One sombrero per table ( Paul wouldn’t let me get 470)
Ten envelopes and two pens per table re Raffle for Mary Meals
Posters on wall
3 bobo balde like mannequins for Paddybhoy re his Cqn wear
Hundreds of copies of Seville book in place
Organising a free pint station for 470 plus Neganon’s food and drink tester
Heart of a lion flyer as a nod to Willie Wallace
Now breakfast…
See you at CQTEN
Oh Cup final on Sunday around 55k – hospitality completely sold out. Neither Hampden of Ibrox could accommodate such a crowd. Celtic Park – finest stadium in Scotland.
Great work Paul67 and to all contributors & posters who have made this blog what it is, a marvellous achievement made by all concerned in another great cause “Mary’s Meals” hope to have the pleasure of sharing a meal with a few of you tonight and toasting 10 years of cqn. Had my first pint at 15 cant remember were as I was drunk at the time :)) not to be recommended I may add
Hail hail to all going to CQN10 tonight. I’ll see you all there. You’ll spot me quite easily, I’ll be the drunken one with a couple of other drunks around me!
O’Neill’s first, then the Blane Valley then The KDS, then Rugby Park (via big screen!), then, out for a drink!
Hail Hail.
Jumped off Arctic Fire as Ruby Walsh injured…..on to Lac Fontana
The Arden Bar, Thornliebank, circa 1971 aged 16 por cierto
First pint in 45mins.
First illegal pint at 16 in Robert Burns, , Stevenston it was the owners name, also known as Rankins…. Joe Rankin was the previous owner.
Anyway, was a right good Tim pub and that’s all that mattered….
Ayrshire is Green and White
Timbhoy2
Bada Bing’s correct, it was/is Annie Miller’s, a den of extreme Hunnery, they even had the kerbstones outside it painted in their 3 colours at one time!!
HH
newradbhoy
Me, I’m a Bar-L bhoy
We can’t all be blessed, at least you’re a Tim :-)
I must know them, there were only 32 closes in the drive.
I’ll ask my old maw tomorrow, seriously she has a better memory than me… I blame that first pint….
Hope the party goes well tonight boys and girls.
For the history buffs, 100 years ago today, aided by oxygen, Winston Churchill addressed a meeting in Bradford.
The Lost History of 1914, by Jack Beatty, Published by Walker Inc. NY
Was Churchill eager to play the Belfast butcher? He was undoubtedly “a war man,” in the words of Admiral Sir John Fisher, who served with him turbulently at the Admiralty. At thirty-nine, a veteran of campaigns against the Dervish in the Sudan, the Pathans in Afghanistan, and the Boers in South Africa, Churchill was full of fight. When, under Tory pressure, Asquith removed him as first lord of the Admiralty in May 1915, Clementine Churchill protested, defending her husband’s belligerent spirit in prophetic terms:
“Winston may in your eyes & in those with whom he has to work have faults but he has the supreme quality which I venture to say very few of your present or future Cabinet possess, the imagination, the deadliness to fight Germany.”32
Concluding that democratic governance was about to be overturned in Ulster, Churchill ordered eight battleships based in Gibraltar and eight destroyers of the Fourth Flotilla in England to sail to the waters between Scotland and Ulster, “where they would be in proximity to the coasts of Ireland in case of serious disorders occurring.” In addition, he dispatched HMS Pathfinder and HMS Attentive to Belfast Louch with orders to defend “by every means’* the eighty-five tons of ammunition at Carrickfergus Castle, held by only twenty soldiers. Indulging his penchant for verbal melodrama, Churchill told Sir John French, chief of the General Staff, that “if there were opposition to the movement of the troops, he would pour enough shot and shell into Belfast to reduce it to ruins in 24 hours.” That is evidence for the “Churchill pogrom” thesis; it is also how he talked when his blood was up.33
It was thumping in his ears on March 14 when he journeyed to Bradford in Yorkshire to loose an oratorical pogrom, Lloyd George put him up to it, making the argument from fame. “This is your opportunity,” George said, according to the diary of Lord Riddell. “Providence has arranged it for you. You can make a speech that will ring down the corridors of history … You are known to be in favor of conciliation for Ulster. Now you will have to say that having secured a compromise Ulstermen will have to accept it or take the consequences.”34
Churchill arrived at Bradford station that afternoon “accompanied by two oxygen cylinders, as well as no doubt by a suitable retinue, the task of one member of which was to pump the oxygen into him before the meeting so as to secure an adequate level of exuberance.”35
Churchill required every ounce of breath to shout out, so the three to four thousand Liberals in the audience could hear it, his final sentence:
If Ulstermen extend the hand of friendship, it will be clasped by Liberals and by their Nationalist countrymen in all good faith and in all good will; but if there is no wish for peace; if every concession that is made is spurned and exploited; if every effort to meet their views is only to be used as a means of breaking down Home Rule and of barring the way to the rest of Ireland; if the Government and Parliament of this great country and greater Empire are to be exposed to menace and brutality; if all the loose, wanton, and reckless chatter we have been forced to listen to these many months is in the end to disclose a sinister and revolutionary purpose; then I can only say to you, “Let us go forward together and put these grave matters to the proof.”36
Bamboo
Its the last one that always seems to cause me problems!
well jel of all attendees tonight ‘but I am compensated with the killie game tonight. superb achievement CQN ….hope you all have a wonderful and memorable night …R.I.P mr benn
How many of us have woken up in the morning feeling rough and blamed it on a bad pint but failed to give any credit to the eight good ones that we also had?
Sadly, in these more civilised times, where pubs offer proper meals and no longer have slops as the guest unnamed ale, the bad pint/bad pie is no longer a believable excuse…….’cause everybody believed it in the old days, didn’t they……..didn’t they?
winning captains
09:14 on 14 March, 2014
What about the MENU……!!!!?…..hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
P67 – your dad and his mother, God rest her soul, will be very proud of you and Kevin.
Really looking forward to the event tonight and seeing a “world record” amount of CQNers! :-)
HH
TTTT
Winning Captains my food and drink tester seems extremely nervous for some reason…..
Any I am looking forward to seeing you all tonight. The blog is fantastic and Paul must be very proud. It certainly keeps me going when I am travelling around. (even if I annoy most of you)!
Hail Hail
cadizzy
14:41 on 14 March, 2014
How many of us have woken up in the morning feeling rough and blamed it on a bad pint but failed to give any credit to the eight good ones that we also had?Sadly, in these more civilised times, where pubs offer proper meals and no longer have slops as the guest unnamed ale, the bad pint/bad pie is no longer a believable excuse…….’cause everybody believed it in the old days, didn’t they……..didn’t they?
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Stoap shouting… ma heid..!
HH
neganon2
14:46 on 14 March, 2014
You don’t annoy me….just wind me up, on purpose…..hahahahahahaha