Iraqi Orphans

Over the weekend my daughter came to stay with her 11 month old. She brought some info about the two Iraqi orphans we have decided to sponser. One is Ali (7), then his brother Yusef (4). Their father died of cancer two years ago, the boys have only their mother and and help from some members of her family to help maintain the children. Life is hard there, the £15 a month we are sending to help feed and clothe each child is a pittance. Only last week a cousin of my daughter-in-law was killed by a roadside bomb which went off in a crowded market in Baghdad. She was only 32, married with two small children, just a simple person going to work in the morning-taken in a heartbeat.There are 5 million orphans in Iraq.

I saw a Passap electronic on Ebay recently-starting at £155, now its something I have always wanted, but I dont have a lot of dough. I thought it would be a good idea to watch it and if the price did not go much above the starting price I would jump in and see. Well my friends, the bidding ended at £366, now that's a load of money even for a Passap, why, here in the UK you can get a fairly decent used car for that!I stopped drooling in shock.

Found a group of knitters that meet on the first Tuesday of every month in Harrow. Its at Grimsdyke Hotel, I went for a drive to suss it out and found it was a lovely hotel which used to be the home of Gilbert & Sullivan. If I remember, I will be attending in December-taking some photos to put on here so you can see what I mean.

I gave up on the one-piece baby jacket I had started a few weeks ago because I could not understand the instructions. Some ladies on my Yahoo group tried to help me-but I decided it was not worth the effort of trying to get my head around it-perhaps one day! I felt I was wasting so much time sitting in front of the machine trying to work it out when I could be doing something else, so off it came. I made another scarf-took me very little time and made me feel that I was being productive.
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