Heading to Bristol to see friend

Loved spending the day with an old high school friend! For Debbie’s Six Word Saturday

Hope and Care at Webber Street Day Centre

A five minute walk south of busy Waterloo station is a day centre for London’s homeless. It is tucked away behind the main road on the corner of Webber and Ufford Street. An unassuming brick building that is providing hope and refuge to hundreds of people a week. Run by London City Mission, it is […]

#GoWuhan: A call for compassion as racism rises with the coronavirus

They say the first reports of an unknown virus behind a number of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, a city in eastern China with a population of more than 11 million, were made on 31 December 2019. Since then the virus has infected close to 40,000 people in mainland China with more than 300 cases reported […]

Project 2020: Week #5

Walking to our flat from a doctor’s appointment, I give my husband a quick call. We talk. “Hey, did anything come in the mail for me today?” I ask towards the end of our conversation. “Yes…” “Yay!! It’s a scarf. A red scarf with white sheep on it!!” I spotted it on Amazon a couple […]

Speaking at my first political event

I am not the best public speaker. I get scared talking in front of people. Just thinking about it does strange things to my stomach and chest. But in a couple of days I will be speaking at my first political event — a community forum in support of people who have fled conflict and […]

Together

My family. On warm days we would lounge outside on the couch watching television. About another month to go before my husband comes back from his overseas job and we can be together again. Via the Daily Post Photo Challenge #63: Together

Good coffee makes me really happy 😃

For Debbie’s Six Word Saturday.

Happy, happy, joy, joy

Only the good stuff today. I was flicking through a book of writing prompts by the Daily Post a couple of weeks ago. I hit the prompt for March 28 and I stopped. It asked: We cry for lots of reasons: sadness, pain, fear…and happiness. When was the last time you shed tears of joy? […]