tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post9153461697898410175..comments2023-09-06T09:27:43.866-07:00Comments on fazzledown: Scottish News anyone?pa_broon74http://www.blogger.com/profile/01915208411019621104noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post-41015274365922111062014-11-13T13:42:25.039-08:002014-11-13T13:42:25.039-08:00Yes, that's lovely.
My mum's church used ...Yes, that's lovely.<br /><br />My mum's church used to organise parcels to kids in an orphanage in Romania.<br /><br />We had to fill a shoebox with little things, and mark it G or B... and age 1-15<br /><br />I actually enjoyed Christmas day thinking of some kid in Romania who had less than nothing, having not just one thing, but loads of little things to open...<br /><br />I'd recommend it for anyone. I don't think it's at all soppy Paul.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post-21139667809614727672014-11-13T02:26:42.675-08:002014-11-13T02:26:42.675-08:00Our office used to get a list of kids from social ...Our office used to get a list of kids from social work/sick kids wards. You just had initials, age , boy/girl and a short description of what ever their challenges were & their interests. We picked one or more (some kids got multiple gift-givers it was so popular) and you bought them a wee present.<br /><br />There was a limit which we always went over (but not by too much, because that could get awkward.)<br /><br />At the risk of sounding soppy, I derived selfish amounts of pleasure in buying for someone - that I'd never know who they were and vice versa just magnified it.<br /><br />Some of these kids would be getting nothing otherwise and while I'm not a fan of the rampant grasping that goes on around this time of year - these kids deserved a break.<br /><br />If you can get a group of people together to do something like this, you won't ever regret it.pa_broon74https://www.blogger.com/profile/01915208411019621104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post-88710064449871383122014-11-12T15:31:10.037-08:002014-11-12T15:31:10.037-08:00Tell me about it.
I've been waiting for a pre...Tell me about it.<br /><br />I've been waiting for a present from you for years...<br /><br />Actually I'm pretty much the same. I'v worked for too long with people who go through hell to try to buy things for their kids. And they are still paying off last year as they are borrowing for this year.<br /><br />I'd love to take a pile of kids who will get nothing, and get no meal, to a really nice place and feed them up and give them some really cool gifts.<br /><br />Or better still we should simply stop the whole miserable bloody carry on.<br /><br />It started in f*$king September this year!!!<br /><br />Still, no chance of that. It's the only time in the year that the Brit economy actually works, even if all we buy was made in China.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post-60310631507104392782014-11-12T13:52:05.907-08:002014-11-12T13:52:05.907-08:00Aye Tris.
diverting money to more deserving cause...Aye Tris.<br /><br />diverting money to more deserving causes is always a good thing to do. I don't pay for TV licence and wouldn't anyway so happy divert that cash and a wee bit more here and there.<br /><br />As for xmas presents, I don;t buy any anyway on account of my extreme bahhumbuggishness, my attitude to christmas precedes me always.<br /><br />;-)pa_broon74https://www.blogger.com/profile/01915208411019621104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post-80170351193876939872014-11-12T03:31:00.731-08:002014-11-12T03:31:00.731-08:00Can't disagree with that.
I cancelled my tv l...Can't disagree with that.<br /><br />I cancelled my tv licence, and in fairness, I disconnected my tvs from the aerial (not that I ever watched them anyway).<br /><br />I pay the licence fee to the local food bank instead on the basis that I'd rather kids had food than the top rung of the BBC could fly first class to New York.<br /><br />Not an unreasonable preference for a human being, I'd say, although I'd not expect the BBC management to think that. <br /><br />I did make an initial donation to Scottish News, and will make more in the future.<br /><br />Christmas presents this year will be to good causes (like this) rather than buying tat for people who don't really want it and certainly don't need it.<br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post-26182535044404526962014-11-11T14:19:14.492-08:002014-11-11T14:19:14.492-08:00Aye.
They did sterling work with Dateline Scotlan...Aye.<br /><br />They did sterling work with Dateline Scotland, it would need to be less frivolous of course, but its a decent start.<br /><br />I'm all for it.pa_broon74https://www.blogger.com/profile/01915208411019621104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post-42756902473665899962014-11-11T11:04:23.466-08:002014-11-11T11:04:23.466-08:00Pa
Anything that provides accurate information to...Pa<br /><br />Anything that provides accurate information to the masses has to be a good thing. It will be rubbished of course and ridiculed but hopefully something that people will watch which will then attract some income etc. Lord knows we need something in this country as far as honest media goes. Look how little coverage the Catalonia Referendum got, disgrace.<br /><br />BruceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com