A friend got in touch this morning about this article, gone viral, about a little boy standing up for a woman being verbally abused by a man in a street. I think this little guy is awesome, but I don’t find it a wholly positive story. See what you think: That was my trigger point. The B […]
I remember when I first read a report of how women and girls were suffering under the Taliban in pre-9/11 Afghanistan. I think I was about sixteen. Widows were starving – literally dying of hunger – because they weren’t allowed to shop for food without a male guardian. Girls were kicked out of schools and […]
In the middle of the (Thai) night, slightly out of kilter after all the flying, and up with jet-lagged (or rather, jet-fuelled) children, I got the very good news by email that the Advertising Standards Authority had upheld a swathe of complaints against this billboard: The advertisement, like several others for the services of this […]
This is excellent, peeps! The wise and hard-working women at New Zealand Baptist Children and Family Ministries have produced a fantastic Advent resource for families to use through December at home. It’s called Christmas @ Home and I warmly recommend it. It isn’t a do-one-every-day kind of Advent journey. Rather, it’s a vibrant collection of ideas to […]
We are a week away from relocating to Thailand for the foreseeable future. WOAH. I have so many posts I want to write! Here are a few things that are on the boil right now. Someday when I’m not packing will end up here: We held a dedication ceremony at home yesterday for our daughter. I’d […]