Posted by grumbler on August 11th, 2007 — Posted in S Review
Navtej Kohli has given me the opportunity to write about my current favourite charity -? Locks of Love. This is perhaps a rather unusual charity in the sense that they do not just ask or need money, but they appreciate your donated hair.? You see, what they do is they create wigs for children who suffer from hair loss as a result of a medical illness such as Cancer. I am sure that you can appreciate how hard it is to be a child in today’s world, let alone when they are suffering from an illness and losing their hair in the process.
To make matters worse, unlike with Adults, where you might be able to get a wig of sorts off the peg, you cannot get a child size wig. And for a wig to feel natural and look natural they need to be made specifically for the child. Locks of Love do exactly that.
And do you know what is best about this charity, that over 90% goes directly to the children unlike other charities where more than 50% can go to administration costs.
So it does not matter if you cannot afford to donate money to them, your hair could be just as important.? Just visit Locks of Love for further details.
This post is sponsored by Navtej Kohli
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Posted by grumbler on July 27th, 2007 — Posted in Government Issues, S Review
Considering all I have been through within the last few years, I have lost a whole load of naivity and faith in society in general. I have been attacked by “customers”, robbed by them and by staff too, I have even had my house robbed and ransacked. My husband kept worrying more and more because he knew that if I was confronted I would attack back. He was afraid that one day someone would pull a knife or gun out on me. This got even worse when I fell pregnant. It meant that I had to close up my business and relocate to a different area. A safer one. In fact we practically moved country.
Crime prevention? is pretty much non existant. Police never took action and that is when they did decide to turn up. And some even questioned my like I planned out the robbery on our house. I was livid. Just imagine. I was 7 months pregnant, turned up home after a week away to find our house ransacked. Called the police early afternoon and were told not to enter the house and leave the crime scene as is. Hours later we called the police and they said we can go in but not to touch anything! Police turned up at 2 in the morning because I insisted they came. The finger print specialist took 2 days to turn up and then had the cheek to say that dna exposed to air for a period of time rendered the dna useless. He came up with nothing.
Needless to say, I felt that I had no personal security? at all. Now if I had a taser? or some other decent weapon, I might feel safer. At least until punishment becomes harsher, crime will keep increasing.
So sadly I believe in harsh prison sentences with prisoners made to work to fund their stay in prison. After all it is not fair that the victim has to pay for their attackers stay in prison!? ?
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Posted by grumbler on July 20th, 2007 — Posted in S Review
Not too long ago I tried a waterbed.? It felt really odd. I had wanted a waterbed for as long as I can remeber. When I was growing up in the 80′s, waterbeds? were all the rage. The truth is I am not sure I could manage one as I felt really giddy. Having said that, the one I tried belonged to a friend of mine who said the first few days were a bit odd but now they would not part with it for anything!
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Posted by grumbler on July 7th, 2007 — Posted in S Review
Moving house is one of the? most stressful scenarios there can be. In fact you will find it in the top 5 most stressful situations including death, divorce and of course money worries!
Thankfully there are moving companies? that well help you move. Places like www.relocation.com not only help you find a home (and sell your old one) but will also help you with your finance and mortgage problems er solutions. Though they probably will not pay your monthly mortgage payments. That would make them the best if they did but then they would not be financially viable. Besides, I do not know anyone who wants to pay my mortgage payments. But if anyone does… just drop me a comment. I will most gladly accept!
Anyway let me not deviate… I was speaking about relocating. The biggest problems are when you have to change country. But thankfully there is international shipping? and auto transport, which makes things far easier, especially if there are seas to cross!
I have change country at least 3 times and numerous times? within each country! None were particularly fun but at least they all went smoothly. I am just grateful that I do not have any foreseeable moves coming up!
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