Today is the birthday of King Charles. I remember that because it's two days after mine and it was also the birthday of Donna, my best friend in infant school. Even if I hadn't known I would have been reminded by the many posts on social media.
To celebrate his birthday today King Charles is opening two new food hubs. Food hubs attempt to bridge the gap between food waste and food hunger. For a donation you can take away a bag of fresh food that would otherwise be thrown away. It's not a food bank and its aim is good so, unlike the Tory politicians who viewed the opening of a food bank as a great photo op, the King's outing today isn't all bad.
That said the fact remains that there are 14,000,000 living in poverty in the UK. And a recent investigation by a television programme and the Sunday Times revealed that both the King and Prince William are receiving huge amounts of rent from charities, schools, and hospitals. For example, because their lifeboat has to be launched and brought in across a beach in Cornwall the RNLI has to pay rent to the Duke of Cornwall (William).
Still on the royal theme you may or may not have heard that a report on abuse in the Church of England published recently was very critical of those in authority who were aware of it and did nothing. As a result the Archbishop of Canterbury was forced to resign. Now, according to the rag, the Daily Mail, it's all because the Archbishop was friends with Harry and Meghan and that clouded his judgement. No, I don't follow that logic either.
On a lighter note, the autumn rugby internationals have started. The rights have been sold to a network so most games aren't viewable unless you subscribe. You used to be able to get a day ticket but now you have to pay lots of money for two years or something silly, so we're not watching the England games. the Welsh games however are being shown on S4C, the landline Welsh channel, but all the commentary was in Welsh. However when there were penalties it was written (in little letters) at the top of the screen what it was for.
I was thrilled when I could tell Husband that the penalty was given for, "Dim yn gyrru'n syth," Meaning not driving straight. Of course I don't know what that means exactly in rugby speak but I think it was to do with the scrum or a maul or a big huddle on the floor.
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Second birthday ice cream today, this time at Verdi's courtesy of my friend, Vivien.
5 comments:
Harry and Meghan may have to leave USA because tRump dislikes them and Harry conveniently forgot to mention drug use on his immigration form. So if he is an illegal immigrant, they may get deported????
Welby was also very friendly with Paula Vennells and wanted her to be the Bishop of London, so his judgement is suspect in many respects. What is is about church leaders/elders that they think themselves above the law? Time to get back to basics and think about the basic tenets of Christianity/Islam and so forth.
My mother was a bit of a royalist, and I remember of her comparing my age to Charles when I was very young. I hadn't remembered whether I was a year younger of a year older. Now I know -- older.
Those Welsh lessons are finally paying off :-)
Llareggub ?
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