Tag: World Vision
Meet Urshe, living on the #FoodFrontLine
Urshe is 60 years old, and she lives in Ethiopia. I’m telling you about her as part of WorldVision‘s latest blogger campaign. There are three bloggers out there now, and 7 of us back home telling you the stories of individual families through our blogs. I remember the famine in 1984 – I was 13…
Musical charity challenge.
To get to Grade 1, on a new instrument in about three months. Big wants to learn guitar. I don’t mind what I play. Dp is considering joining in and learning recorder. I’m the only one with any musical experience, I’ve got grade three on violin and piano, and grade one theory. We’re not precisely…
Let's talk about drought.
There’s been a huge amount of talk in our media recently about drought and hosepipe bans and so on. And it’s true that it’s been very dry, particularly in East Anglia over the last couple of years. (Not in the last couple of months however, but that’s just typical really.) Reservoirs are depleted, and although…