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People can’t afford to cook free meals

People are handing meals back to food banks because they cannot afford the fuel to cook the food.

A charity working with a food bank in Clydebank will reveal the dire state of the welfare crisis when it gives evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Welfare Reform Committee tomorrow.

Oxfam – more usually associated with third world poverty – works with West Dunbartonshire Community Foodshare and…

Leo Sayer – The Show Must Go On

Baby, although I chose this lonely life It seems it’s strangling me now All the wild men with big cigars and gigantic cars They’re all laughing at me now Oh I’ve been used, used I’ve been taken for a fool, oh what a fool I broke all the rules, rules, yeah But I won’t let the show go on

Baby, there’s an enormous crowd of people And they’re all after my blood I wish maybe they’d tear down the walls…

The wise know their limits!

Originally posted on Purplerays:

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” Socrates Text Source: http://www.brainyquote.com

Photo Credit: Sun Gazing on Facebook

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Plan B – Create a New Blog

I decided to create a new blog using my existing WordPress account. I now think it would have been better to start a new separate account, as the two blogs are currently sharing stuff that I want to be completely detached.

So while I am in the process of making changes, I do not know what effect it may cause within this blog. I might end up with things from the new blog appearing on this one, eg…

Britain’s bloated military budget

Originally posted on Dear Kitty. Some blog:

This video from Scotland is called Edinburgh CND – Scrap Trident.

By Kate Hudson in Britain:

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This blog will be ending in two weeks.

As earlier followers of rhubblog know, it was never my intention to be a blogger. I was asked to create a blog for the service-users at “R” Hub to use. They did not use it, so I started to use it myself.

Initially I only linked to other recovery blogs, but then decided to branch out and include topics such as photography, art, poetry, music and humour.

Although it has been time consuming running…