I'm hoping soon to arrange an interview with Dave, the manager of Dundee Foodbank.
I was there on Monday and they said that food was starting to come in again following the quiet period after Christmas.
It seems, though, that there is still a bit of a shortage of absolute essentials, like the ones below, from their appeal on Facebook.
So, dear readers, if you live in Dundee, and if you can help, I know that the wonderful people at the foodbank (and they really really are) would be grateful. It must be hell having to turn hungry people away.
Here's their post...
We are a wee bit short of the following items - could you consider donating a few to the food bank over the next couple of weeks?
UHT milk
Tinned meat
Instant soup / pasta
Sugar
Tinned Fruit
Cheers!
Details of when our centres are open - all of them can accept donations when operating - are at dundee.foodbank.org.uk. We also have donations points at Tesco Riverside, Sainsbury's, Butties sandwich shops & Brands Books.
++++++++++
On a not too dissimilar subject I notice that the Daily Record headline today bemoaned the fact that the government (the one Daily Record thought was best for Scots), is yet again going to cut benefits to Scotland. This time it's targeting the money available to local government to help with Housing costs.
It is, of course, nothing that we haven't become used to from that much vaunted most successful union in the history of the known universe which the Record urged us not to leave.
It's just a little ironic that the Record should so soon find the policiess of its favoured government to be not quite as perfect as they promised us they would be. Better Together indeed!
It's also a tad on the cheeky side to expend as much ink as the Record recently has on putting down other organs for rudeness and disrespectful stores about Labour, and then describing Duncan-Smith as a "double-chinned millionaire Tory".
 |
| Looking better than usual |
Granted it's true (these £38 tax payer funded breakfasts...eh?). We can't fault them for accuracy...but it's not very polite. And, although Munguin has no such sensibilities, we thought that the Record set great store by politeness.
It seems that they have taken their place as part of the British establishment, where as we all know there is one set of rules for us, and one for them.
++++++++++
PS.
 |
| ....in pink |
According to what I read on Twitter (I can't access her account because she has blocked me for calling her out on previous lies, but you may be able to) Maggie Thatc Curran appears to think that it's a shameful lie made up by the SNP that the Tories and Labour may consider a grand coalition to keep the SNP from holding any sway in the next parliament.
Poor deluded woman appears never to have heard of Gisela Stuart. I knew Mags was detached from what's going on, but for heaven's sake...
