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endlessrarities) wrote2011-03-12 10:08 am
endlessrarities) wrote2011-03-12 10:08 am
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Aargh! March comes in like a sabre-toothed tiger, and hangs around like a woolly mammoth.
It's a garden post today. I'd hoped I could give you a progress report on the front flower bed, which was looking decidedly woolly itself before I started work on transforming it into something presentable. I was due to finish weeding it this weekend, but this now seems very unlikely, because this is how it looks today:-
The straggly rose bush at the right hand side shows where work has stopped for the moment....
Another hellebore photograph now, just to prove that I haven't filched an earlier photograph to exaggerate:-
Another hellebore photograph now, just to prove that I haven't filched an earlier photograph to exaggerate:-
Now the multi-million dollar question is: at what point do I cancel horse-riding???
Anyway, everything's relative. After the recent horrific earthquake that shook Christchurch, New Zealand, the seismic forces that shape this world have done it again and put on a repeat performance in North-East Japan.
It never fails to frustrate me that while the Disasters Emergency Committee pulls the stops out to air appeals asking for public support when these natural disasters taking place in the developing world, they don't do a similar thing for 'rich' countries. I think it's important to offer financial support to those caught up in such terrible events, wherever they live, and whatever the size of their home country's GDP. I'd like to think that where the situation's reversed, they do the same for me. But for someone who isn't really happy about carrying out financial transactions on the internet, it's virtually impossible to do this. It's just a shame that the Post Office, which regularly hosts the appeals for the DEC, can't host a regular account which the public can support on a more regular basis...
My thoughts go out to all those who are caught up in these hurrendous events.
Anyway, everything's relative. After the recent horrific earthquake that shook Christchurch, New Zealand, the seismic forces that shape this world have done it again and put on a repeat performance in North-East Japan.
It never fails to frustrate me that while the Disasters Emergency Committee pulls the stops out to air appeals asking for public support when these natural disasters taking place in the developing world, they don't do a similar thing for 'rich' countries. I think it's important to offer financial support to those caught up in such terrible events, wherever they live, and whatever the size of their home country's GDP. I'd like to think that where the situation's reversed, they do the same for me. But for someone who isn't really happy about carrying out financial transactions on the internet, it's virtually impossible to do this. It's just a shame that the Post Office, which regularly hosts the appeals for the DEC, can't host a regular account which the public can support on a more regular basis...
My thoughts go out to all those who are caught up in these hurrendous events.
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What impresses me is how many of the world's great religions put great emphasis on the redistribution of wealth and the importance of being charitable, etc. And yet even when such systems are in place, there are still massive inequalities evident between those at the top and those at the bottom.