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The End of the Challenge – But The Fight Continues….
I did it!! Twelve days of living on £1 per day for all my food and drink as part of The Global Poverty Project’s Live Below The Line campaign. The last supper – any veg I had left (including a lot of...
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1.4 Billion Reasons: The Global Poverty Project
It’s nearly a week since I completed my 12 days Live Below The Line challenge, and I will be posting some reflections tomorrow. However, this evening I wanted to pre-empt that by posting further...
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On Being A Grown Up
Over the past few weeks I’ve had a lot of chats and discussions with close friends and family members around the subject of ‘this grown-up life we are living’. I’m not entirely sure how or when, but...
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6 Weeks After Live Below The Line
My twitter feed reminded me that it has been 6 weeks since the Live Below The Line challenge, and I thought it was high time for a reflection post. It’s very easy to fall back into your old habits...
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More Than Numbers On Scales
I’ve recently joined a gym. While this may not necessarily be newsworthy enough for a full blog entry to be dedicated to it, and I have not intention of turning this into a ‘health and fitness’ blog,...
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Heart Versus Head
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. Milan Kundera I’ve lived in the little flat I have temporarily named ‘Home’, here on the north-east coast of Scotland, for a year. Having...
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30 Before 30: A Challenge
2013 has dawned on us all too suddenly and I now find myself in the year I turn 30. Having always been up for a challenge, I thought there would be no challenge better than to give myself the ’30...
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30 Before 30: Misadventures in Crochet
For part of the month of January I have been confined to bed-rest after an operation to repair my perforated eardrum. As bored as I have been, I have been able to use the time to achieve one of my 30...
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International Woman’s Day – Why Girls?
It’s no secret that I’m an advocate of girls and particularly girls education. An adolescent girl stands at the doorway of adulthood. If she stays in school, remains healthy, and gains skills, she will...
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The Franciscan Prayer of Discomfort
“May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and...
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Running on Empty
Attention: Wordy Post Ahead….. Two of my Thirty Before 30 involve running. Running is something I’ve fairly recently taken up and no one was more surprised that I to find that I actually enjoy it....
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Saudade
This beautiful Portuguese word is difficult to translate fully into English as there is no English word that is it’s equivalent. It is a word which describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic...
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Beauty in the Chaos
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Do not be afraid.” – Frederick Buechner. Not a day goes by without a story that horrifies, a tragedy, an act of evil, an unspeakable...
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Live Below The Line 2013
https://www.livebelowtheline.com/me/elleenelle This will be my third year of taking part in the Live Below The Line challenge. Live Below the Line is an innovative awareness and fundraising campaign...
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Live Below The Line 2013: Prep Day
https://www.livebelowtheline.com/me/elleenelle My Live Below The Line challenge starts tomorrow and I went for my ‘Below The Line’ shop today. Having weighed up my options I decided to walk the extra...
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Why £1? (Day 1: Live Below The Line)
I kicked off Day 1 of my Live Below The Line challenge today! I’ll be living off £1 per day for my food and drink for the next 5 days. Why £1? The international Extreme Poverty Line was defined by the...
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What Does Hunger Look Like? (Day 2: Live Below The Line)
“A hungry man is not a free man” – Adlai E. Stevenson Nearly one billion people go to bed hungry every night and two million children die from malnutrition every year. We’ve made progress in other...
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Sore Head, Full Heart (Day 3: Live Below The Line)
You can still donate here: https://www.livebelowtheline.com/me/elleenelle Day 3 of Live Below The Line and I’ve spent 84p on my food today. The breakdown goes something like this: Breakfast: 2 slices...
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1.2 Billion People, 1.2 Billion Reasons (Day 4: Live Below The Line)
“The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.” - Albert Einstein As of 2010, the world had 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty –...
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One Week of Groceries (Day 5: Live Below The Line)
My Live Below The Line week is just about finished – but you can still sponsor me here: https://www.livebelowtheline.com/me/elleenelle What does one week’s worth of groceries look like for a family in...
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