International Year of Sanitation

It is the International Year of Sanitation and Thursday is World Water Day. This is the sort of thing you learn if you listen to R4 Woman’s Hour instead of bringing the PAYE records up to date.

www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/01/2008_12_wed.shtml

“2.6 billion people worldwide have nowhere to go to the loo – one of the shocking statistics exposed in a new book co-authored by Maggie Black (and Ben Fawcett). Fittingly called ‘The Last Taboo’, it broaches the topic of excrement and the problem it poses especially for girls in the developing world, who are often kept from going to school due to a lack of proper facilities.”

You can see the U.N. website:

http://esa.un.org/iys/

Plumber at Easter – N.B. it’s a holiday!

It is hard to believe it is Easter this weekend. We are just not prepared for Easter in March and it wasn’t so long ago I was indulged in a chocolate breakfast in bed for Mothers’ Day.

Schools, offices, and businesses will be closing for Easter so it is surprising that a few people have assumed Mr T.P. will be working on Friday and Saturday.

We value our leisure time. We often go away for Easter (not this year, though), last year we went to Hastings and remember it was glorious weather.  Not really sure what we do this weekend, Mr T.P.’s golfing buddy has let him down.

You may have heard the expression, “it’s a jungle out there.” I can tell you this is a specific reference to our front garden.  I don’t really share the nation’s passion for gardening (or any form of hard work). – I like gardens, but I think of my own as an expensive, time consuming burden.  I like the work to be done by someone else,  I’m a great fan of public parks!  So, it is extremely unlikely that I will be found weeding at the weekend, but you never know.