Right, what follows is nothing to do with cars, but I don't really care. I just watched that programme on the big wave in Asia, and though, probably like most of you, I'm totally skint at the moment, tomorrow morning I am going down town and giving a tenner to Oxfam. Yeah I know it's chickenfeed, but I can't sit here, in the warm and dry, with food in the fridge and do *uck all. It may be said that not all the money donated gets to where it's needed, but I'm not going to touch that argument. You all can do as you feel fit, and I don't want to start critisizing anyone who, for whatever reason, doesn't wish to donate, but if everyone who reads this just gives a tenner, well that's something. There may be chavs out there torching cars, and all kinds of other social ills but I hope to God I never have to sleep rough with a corpse as company. Sorry people, but I had to say something. It just made me sick.
Just made a donation. My mate Steve has friends in Phuket who have Brit theme bar and a couple of hotels.They moved out there cos the property is cheap and the Thai people love the Brits. I spoke to him this morning. All have lost their businesses and are returning to Blighty.
Watched a programme about Boscastle. The TV were filming a documentry about the village when the floods came. People talked about a 20ft wave and we sat and watched it happen on TV. Just imagine that across thousands of miles.
It's REAL shitty man, we think we're so goddamn all powerful, with our weapons of mass destruction, but we're nothin' compared to forces of nature. Anyway, me and mine did our bit, £40, from my tribe. That aparently buys a family clean water for a week. But what about next week? And the week after?
The guy I spoke to in the Ipswich Building Society yesterday when I paid some money into the fund, said he couldn't believe how kind people are being, everyone from young kiddies giving their pocket money, old folk giving a couple of pound coins because that's all they can spare to people giving hundreds of pounds. An old dear infront of Little Sniper and I had given £2, she said she wished she could have given more, it brought back memories of the 2nd World War when she was a kid.
My parents have just canceled their golden wedding do in March, and donated the costs, about £500 to the apeal. Mum reckoned she'd been losing sleep over the whole thing, and decided it would be obscene to spend so much on one night's entertainment when so many people were suffering.
That is a really very kind thought. I guess if your family knew about this, they would give the money they would have spent on presents to the fund as well.
Now that's an idea for a friends' little boys 5th birthday next week, I hope she wouldn't mind if I did that and she is always moaning that her kids have got plenty of toys.
Now that's an idea for a friends' little boys 5th birthday next week, I hope she wouldn't mind if I did that and she is always moaning that her kids have got plenty of toys.
