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Try to stay positive (and preferably beligerant too
) Mick, the radiology is tiring (just been through seven & a half weeks of it with my OH)
weekends off and by sunday just starting to recover and realise it all starts again monday!! but the time did pass quite quickly believe it or not, it just takes as many weeks again to settle down to 'normality' but hopefully you will adjust to it and not
have too many side effects. We are all thinking of you and willing you on
Alison xx
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All the best Mick
The Mcmillan organisation supporting cancer sufferers is fantastic. --- Excellent caring people..
What would be great, is if there was a Mcmillan type organisation supporting those in the acute stages of Pulminory, Cardiac, and the many more terminal illnesses.
K
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Marie Curie is now there for any terminal illness - not just Cancer - hence the recent "rebranding" so please tell anyone in need of end of life care. And of course please give generously when the collectors are about
I am humbled at the amount people give when I do collections - its not a job I enjoy a lot but it can be very heart warming. And I hope I will get end of life care when I need it - so on with the thermals and the smile
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Marie Curie is now there for any terminal illness - not just Cancer - hence the recent "rebranding" so please tell anyone in need of end of life care. And of course please give generously when the collectors are about
I am humbled at the amount people give when I do collections - its not a job I enjoy a lot but it can be very heart warming. And I hope I will get end of life care when I need it - so on with the thermals and the smil
Write your comments here...Thats useful information Pippa - Thanks.
K
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Pippah, I find fewer & fewer Collecting Boxes etc around These Days.
I save all coppers & 5s & 10s put them in my camera bag in little containers ( actually the 'pots' my blood-test strips come in !! ) But only a few Fair Organs & very, very few Engines collect now so I have to wander
round the stalls activly looking for somewhere to leave my money !! The Result is in a few weeks the Round Table Santa Claus Collectors will find a Stone & a Quarter of (very) small change dumped on them !! Sometimes
I think they only send the youngest, or the loser of their own raffle to
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Its very hard to find people who will stand with a tin - main collections are now done at Supermarkets etc. I find it difficult to get hold of a Poppy or two at this time of year too.
So if anyone hears the call to give a couple of hours to Macmillan or Marie Curie - please think of doing it! I am very tempted to open my mouth at the rude non-givers who might well need the service one day. It's absolutely fine walking past but totally unnecessary to get stroppy! Marie Curie suggest £1 donation - I wish people knew that - as counting all those pennies is quite a task - but hey every little helps!
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I don't think charities should have a minimum donation, to be honest. I can understand the idea behind it, but surely the few pence from someone who has very very little, should be just as welcome as the fat cheque from a fat cat?
I was quite shocked to see a notice on the poppy stall in our local supermarket that the minimum donation was £1 - and witnessed a little girl walk away crying because she read the notice and obviously didn't think she had enough to buy a poppy.
I'll continue to give whatever I can to those charities I support, but come the day when I can only afford a smaller amount, should I stop giving?
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Yes ValDa I quite agree there should be no minimum and all the collectors I know ignore the "dictate" from above. With Marie Curie it is "suggested donation" although I can see that small change takes more time to count - its all part of the whole thing
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Yes ValDa I quite agree there should be no minimum and all the collectors I know ignore the "dictate" from above. With Marie Curie it is "suggested donation" although I can see that small change takes more time to count - its all part of the whole thing
- if youngsters are put off donating - it bodes badly for the future.I put the small coins to one side, this is 1, 2 and 5 pences, larger coins if I have a lot. We are not allowed to pay them into the bank without limits and there are counting machines which take a percentage. I know they take time to count etc but they
are better than nothing. I am quite happy to empty my pot of schapnel for charity, if they're lucky they may get quite a bit. I'm very happy to donate what I can to charities I support but will give casually too, but it won't be notes!It's slightly off topic but if no-one and that includes charities wants the small coins maybe they should be scrapped and we go over to Swedish rounding (they use it in New Zealand 5 and under down 6 up to nearest dollar, payment by card to the cent, there
few carry cash so charity boxes are generally light). Such things a poppies, daffodils etc will be very hard to acquire, leading to more people buying once and never giving again???0 -
I would certainly support scrapping 1ps and 2ps - I must have counted nearly £700 this year with a large proportion of that in small coins - add to that the local branch of Marie Curie's Bank is now a mobile unit that won't take "business account" money..
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Driving to the next branch and parking is not something I am prepared to do - so it looks as though they may have lost me as a collector. (Unless they allow me to put it in my bank which so far they have refused to do)0 -
I used to wor
I would certainly support scrapping 1ps and 2ps - I must have counted nearly £700 this year with a large proportion of that in small coins - add to that the local branch of Marie Curie's Bank is now a mobile unit that won't take "business account" money..
. Driving to the next branch and parking is not something I am prepared to do - so it looks as though they may have lost me as a collector. (Unless they allow me to put it in my bank which so far they have refused to do)I used to work for a large national charity, organising street collections (when envelopes were dropped through your door and collected by volunteers). Every month I had thousands of pounds to count, most of it in very small change. Then my parents offered to help, and spent a couple of days each month just counting and sorting money (because all the coins had to be sorted separately for the bank). My parents loved doing it - my Dad especially who loved sorting the coins into different types, and did it like a bank teller, over the edge of the counter and into a special box he'd made!
One night, after going around all our volunteers, I'd filled the back of the car with bags full of envelopes full of cash (wouldn't be allowed these days) and somehow, inadvertently, left the boot open whilst it was parked outside the house. Fortunately, it was only an old Lada estate, and didn't attract any attention so everything was still there in the morning (again probably wouldn't happen these days).
And today, we're just about to set off for a walk down to our local river to see if the salmon are still trying to get up the weir. Then we'll continue down to the garden centre, and then back home via a coffee and hald a scone each, with jam and clotted cream,at the Donkey Sanctuary charity shop which serves absolutely delicious coffee!
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Sorry, posted the 'What are you doing today in the wrong thread'. My apologies!
Back to the topic of MacMillan, my friend received enormous help from the MacMillan team in 2009 when she was suffering from a very nasty throat cancer. She's pulled through, since then has had two replacement knees, and is now very positive about life
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One of our neighbours used to put a Christain Aid envelop through the letter box and come back a week later. She has not done if for some years so I wondered whether that method of collecting has stopped. Perhaps it was a lot of effort for too small a return.
My own preference for charitable donations is to do them online. Some will be our own chosen charities and some dictated by circumstances. Unfortunately we have been to two funerals recently, one a former colleague and one a neighbour. The faimily of the
former colleage nominated Macmillan so we were happy to send a donation.I know some don't like online donations as there is some concern about fees but at least you can claim gift aid.David
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Just home, after the overnight stay after op became a four nights nightmare. :-(
Now awaiting radiotherapy course
Glad to hear you're home. Wards can be quite noisy sometimes especially when you feel you need a bit of a rest from the 'routine' there. Nothing like your own bed for comfort. Take care.
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Christian Aid is still active in our area - I think it depends if you have an active churchgoer living nearby, or willing to walk a bit further to deliver and then collect the envelopes.
Same here Valda, but we have the Luxury ( ?? ) of a local Councillor & ex - Town mayor living a couple of hundred yards away and he does the "Delivering, Collecting & Dishing out Reminders bit" for Christian Aid in my area.
IMHO there is nobody but nobody better at collecting door to door, or on street corners than a chappie who spent many years doing that but for votes in stead of money. He really does know how to tug at your heart ( and wallet ) strings
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Best of luck Mick. It probably won't actually help but you were in my thoughts just last week, hoping for the good news.
Hope that posting on here takes your mind off your illness.
ps good to see that the post Christmas diet is working.
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Good to see your post & that you are managing to eat a bit better. Hope the weather improves for your time away. Guess the nurses must have looked after you OK.
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