Goodbye January. Hello February. When I was cleaning the house and thinking what to do with my blog this month I started coming up with ‘F’ words to go with February – good ones, honestly. Some were to do with the weather here like frost and flippin’ freezing, but no one wants to concentrate on…
Tag: slavery
Royalty, Poverty and an Emergency
A royal birth. The announcement on display in a gilded frame in front of Buckingham Palace. Kate appearing with the new baby outside the hospital just a few hours after the birth looking immaculate. The Tower of London and Niagara Falls lit up in pink. 41 and 62 gun salutes. It is like a fairytale. Charlotte…
In It to End It
Today, I join my voice with many for the End It Movement‘s Shine a Light on Slavery Day. I want to end it for all the upwards of 27 million people in slavery in the world today – more than in the whole of history, and it is the fastest growing criminal enterprise. Shockingly, only one percent of…
Refuse To Do Nothing
It comes every year and it comes quickly. January. The beginning of the year. Another year. Full of possibilities, full of potential, full of challenges, full of the unexpected and the mundane, full of joys and sorrows. And the first month is already almost done. In our house it coincides with Tim’s seasonal unemployment, absolute…
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