I stopped off at the chip shop the other day, and pulled a ten pound note out of my wallet to pay for the chips. And I discovered today, that that same ten pounds could buy clothing for over a dozen refugee children in Burma and Thailand. Shocking. It really makes you think doesn’t it? [...]
Well, from me anyway. We basically moved Suzie and all her worldly possessions (well, it seemed like it) into her new house today. Me and Mum drove up in Smo, and Suzie and Dad went in the Mazda; there was only two free seats in the Mazda after all Suzie’s stuff, and one was needed [...]
Well, officially not until tomorrow, but we had her goodbye meal tonight, just me, Ineke, Suzie and Tessa. We drove to the Osbourne View, presumably so called because you can see Osbourne on the Isle of Wight from it’s windows. We had a three-course meal, after which we went and walked around in the dark [...]
Without a single thought for the others. The parable of the greedy farmer: Luke 12:13-21. We have built our barns and filled them with all the crop we have grown - our wealth, our own little insurance for when life might get tougher in future, our own little fall-back for when ends might not meet [...]
Sleeping Monkey is the weblog of Ben Cardy, a student at the University of Portsmouth, UK, studying Internet Technology. You'll find posts about life, religion, design, photography, work, technology, and much more.
