Showy Giving
It is already March and this is only my second article for the blog, despite the fact that I promised myself to write one every month. Thanks to the ‘Spirit of Giving’, I got a subject so irresistible to write about – not that there haven’t been any subjects worth writing about in the last two months. Two week ago, my son brought a fundraising ticket from his school in support of the Red Nose Day. I did not know what this was about, so I asked a friend who has lived here for almost a decade. He explained that this was an ‘annual fundraising by Comic Relief’. More trouble, what the flipping nail was ‘Comic Relief’. I decided not expose any more of my ignorance and chose head for the internet – this has been the main source of information for me since I moved to this country and 99% of the time, it has been useful. As I was driving home, I realized that my friend had used the word annual - how come I did not hear about this in the previous 2 years. This meant that even after liv...