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Plan International

We stand with girls in over 80 countries to tear down barriers, save lives and build a world where equality for girls leads to progress for all.

Plan International



A Girl with a Dream Deserves a Chance:

"Around the world, millions of girls are denied the chance to go to school, speak up, or decide their own future — simply because they were born female. Plan International is working to change that, and you can be part of the solution."
Every child deserves to grow up safe but for girls, that safety is often out of reach.
Violence at home, in schools, online and in public spaces continues to limit girls’ freedom, choices and futures. With millions of children displaced by conflict and crisis, the risks are growing.
We work with girls, young people and communities to prevent harm and create safer environments.
Together, we challenge the root causes of inequality and build lasting solutions that help girls to live free from violence. Too many girls are being blocked from opportunities.
Two-thirds of the world’s 1.2 billion young people lack the skills they need to access decent work. One in 5 are not in education, employment or training, limiting their futures before they’ve even begun.
We equip girls and young women with the tools to thrive, from vocational training and entrepreneurship to financial literacy, mentoring and life skills. We help them build confidence, access opportunities and shape their futures on their own terms

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Book Trust - Inspire the love of reading



Donate to Book Trust

Every child deserves the joy of discovering their first favorite book — the one that makes them laugh, dream, and believe in magic. But for many families across the UK, books are a luxury they simply can’t afford. That’s where BookTrust comes in — and where we can all help.

BookTrust is more than just a charity — it’s a lifeline for children who might otherwise miss out on the chance to fall in love with reading. Through free book packs, reading resources, and support for families, BookTrust gives every child the opportunity to start life with stories.

In this post, I’ll show you how supporting BookTrust — whether through donations, spreading the word, or simply sharing your love of reading — can make a real difference in a child’s life.



What is neurodiversity? Neurodiversity describes the way every brain works differently. Neurodiversity can include autistic spectrum conditions, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyslexia, traumatic brain injuries and many more.

Representation through reading. We know that representation is vital in helping motivate children to read. Diversity and representation in stories, characters and illustrations in children’s literature affect how young readers see themselves and the world around them.
Diverse, inclusive and representative children’s literature can ensure that children benefit from a richness of perspective, nuance in narrative and good stories from the earliest age.

Disability and Books 

We know that representation is vital in helping motivate children to read. Diversity and representation in stories, characters and illustrations in children’s literature affect how young readers see themselves and the world around them. 

Diverse, inclusive and representative children’s literature can ensure that children benefit from a richness of perspective, nuance in narrative and good stories from the earliest age. 

From babies to children in their early years and all the way through to early teens, reading brings profound and wide-ranging benefits that can have a lifelong positive impact on children’s lives.

BookTrust is the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. We know that children who read are happier, healthier, more empathetic, and more creative. They also do better at school.  

Working with every local authority and across every region in the country, and supported by Arts Council funding, we reach over 3 million families a year via partners in schools, children’s centers, health visitors and libraries. This incredible network helps us to get children reading across the country.

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30 seconds to mars, Sydney

Hello everyone, I am so behind on posting everything about my travels, I have posted nothing...!
I sincerely apologise.

So here it all is while in Australia I went to see 30 Seconds to Mars.
I was literally screaming when I booked the tickets the girls that I was sharing the dorm with thought I was mental! 
I went on my own just like I do everything else on my own. and I am very proud of that.





My Favourite Song.


 



 




















Australia Breakdown

Financial Breakdown from my trip to Australia.

 

- Flight: 1605.06 (I went with Travel Junction as I only wanted one stop flight, and I would NOT recommend them to anyone, it turned out to be a 2-stop flight

TRAVEL JUNCTION

EVAAIR 

- Visa: Free (Online E-Visa)

VISA INFORMATION

- Spending money: £501.56 GBP. (Half on Travel card and half in cash. Take more on card next time)

HAYS TRAVEL CARD

HAYS TRAVEL MONEY

- Cattery: £126 (The only problem I have with them is they need to update their payment system as I am not a fan of bank transfers.)

ANIMAL CARE

- Travel Insurance: £25.61 (Travel insurance for the trip would have been less but I have asthma

INSURANCE 

- Hostel + Fees: £44.74 (What they didn't tell me was switching days because of a flight time change added an extra £20 on + fees of course!!)

HOSTEL WORLD

HYDE PARK

(I have come to the realization i am too old for Hostels and bunk beds from now i think it will be Hotels or Airbnb)

- National Express 1: £13.72 single Carlisle to London (was £45.24 but I paid with Amazon Pay with student discount, so I got 75% discount)

- National Express 2: £30.73 single return London to Carlisle (Paid with Amazon Pay only got £5 student discount)

- National Express 3: £9.35 single from London to Heathrow 

NATIONAL EXPRESS (These are my saviour after my Train got cancelled due to strikes)

Heathrow Express: £25 (from Heathrow to Paddington)

1: Accommodation in Grafton: £87.63 (cancelled due to the hotel closing, Refunded and Expedia did give me £100 voucher)

2: AirBnb £166.82 6th January till 9th January

AIRBNB

- Flight 2 Port McQuarrie to Brisbane: $248.31 Australian Dollars my friend recommended WebJet (£139.20 GBP, I didn't realise there was no Trains/ Buses/ coaches from Port McQuarrie to Brisbane, the journey would have taken 12 hours!)

- $99 Flight date change (I got that wrong date)

WEBJET

QANTAS AIRLINE

- Train to Grafton: $60.17 AUD (£35 English money)

 

Personal Expense:

- Clothes alternations: £50

- Travel toiletries: £10

- Summer clothes £25.50

- Food in London £30.00

- Airport Food/ Snacks £150

- Exchange Fees/ Card Fees £25

 

What would I have done better:

- Learn to drive beforehand so there's no need for public transport then find a great long term car rental.

- I totally underestimated the prices in London from public transport to restaurants, they all add a 'Service fee' on which I did not know, I think its modern-day thievery!

- Stay in Australia for longer, next time it will be my whole visa.

- leave the airports if you have a long stay over like I had in Taiwan 12 hours. Get out and see things.




Life Update.... What's Next

Hello everybody who reads my blog I have been gone for a hot moment there, but I am back, and I have so much to tell you all because so much has happened and so much is going to happen heading into next year.

First things first, I quit my job!

I am at peace with my decision. I am no longer angry within myself, and I feel the need to take some time out I was becoming not a very nice person which I didn't want, nor did I like.
I have started swimming again about 3 times a week so I rejoined the gym as a pay and go customer till January then I will move onto a membership. I am very happy with that.
I have started walking again and I love it, just walking all wrapped up in all weathers... I just walk.

On to the next part I am finally going to Australia (insert crazy scream)
My beautiful friend Becky and her Fiancé Stephen are getting married in January and I am invited (YAY) and I'm going.
Visa, Flight, cattery, trains all booked, exciting times.

I paid off my working holiday to Australia and hopefully the visas will open in time for me to leave in March. It is taking so long because I am older that the current visa age limit, but the company said the age limit is changing to 35/36 but when they do is anyone's guess.

So that's a rough lowdown on life.
I promise to keep up on my blog, but its contents might be changing a bit to Travel, Food, DIY Projects and sustainability, Climate change.



BOOK: Homebody by Rupi Kaur

My Review: I love this book.
                 I love all this ladies writing's.

Rupi Kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself – reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. Illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here.


I dive into the well of my body
and end up in another world
everything I need
already exists in me
there’s no need
to look anywhere else
– home




LGBTQ Book's Recommendations Part 1

From drag queens and discos, to black holes and monsters, these stories and poems wrestle with love and loneliness and the fight to be seen. By turns serious and fantastical, hilarious and confrontational, We Were Always Here addresses the fears, mysteries, wonders and variety of experience that binds our community together.

We Were Always Here is a snapshot of current LGBTI+ writing and a showcase of queer talent.

Contributors: Alice Tarbuck, Andrés Ordorica, April Hill, AR Crow, Bibi June, BD Owens, Callum Harper, Christina Neuwirth, Ciara Maguire, Elaine Gallagher, Elva Hills, Eris Young, Etzali Hernández, Felicity Anderson-Nathan, Freddie Alexander, Garry Mac, Gray Crosbie, Harry Josephine Giles, Heather Parry, Heather Valentine, Jack Bigglestone, Jane Flett, Jay G Ying, Jay Whittaker, Jonathan Bay, Jo Clifford, Kirsty Logan, Laura Waddell, Lori England, MJ Brocklebank, Rachel Plummer, Ross Jamieson, Sandra Alland, Shane Strachan, Zoe Storrie.
 





Written 12 years before Teleny by Saul, this account of Victorian cross-dressing and rent-boys is a legend all its own. Based on the true story of a male brothel in Cleveland Street (later shut down).
Subtitled: "The Recollections of a Mary-Ann", the "Cities of the Plain" are of course Sodom and Gomorrah.
One of the first exclusively homosexual works of pornographic literature published in English. It has been suggested that it was largely written by James Campbell Reddie and the painter Simeon Solomon, who had been convicted of public indecency in 1873 and disgraced.





RAANTHAI PACKAGE REVIEW

                                  

*TAKEN FROM THE WEBSITE*

RaanThai offers Europe's largest online selection of fresh, frozen and packaged Thai food and other Oriental foodstuffs, with next-working-day delivery available to your home or business. Thousands of products are available, and more are added weekly.

They are based in the UK (thank mother nature for that). When it comes to ordering you have to spend over £20 which I think is good and you can easily do that, I always do because they have a wide range of foreign food from Thailand, Philippines, Japan, Korea, Malaya, Indonesia and China. Postage is £5.58 plus tax.

RaanThai Oriental Supermarket
Unit A2, North Cheshire Trading Estate
Preston, Merseyside, CH43 3DU









Life Update 15th March 2021

 Hello you beautiful people on the internet (cheesy wave) Well a little life update if you all have time?

 I am almost finished my second year of university the course i am doing is bloody hard but need it if i want to be a teacher!

I must endure and persist.... 
My assignments are still going in by the skin on my teeth, i really must learn time management.

The bad news - 
 Like everybody else in March i was placed on furlough with my two jobs.
The pub where i worked decided to shut permanently so in June 2020 i was made redundant. Then in October the convenience store i worked at informed me i was going to be made redundant again, when i heard that i was devastated i loved that job.
Luckily my old boss from the pub passed my name on to a supermarket and they phoned me in November so i started working in a store in town and i have been there ever since, i am grateful for my old boss and his wife.

Good news - 
i have passed my online TEFL certificate with additional Advanced Grammar, which means now i can teach abroad and online.

Even more and more good news i am now registered with a Education Agency and i am finally getting some classroom experience in which i love, i love, i love! I lost my placement in 2020 thanks to the pandemic.

Teaching Assistant/ Cover Supervisor is what i am doing at the moment i love it, i love it, i love it! Wish me luck 🙏

Stay safe
 Wear a mask
Wash your hands
Use your common sense
Stay blessed.

Support Resources

Humdard provides help and support for Asian women who are experiencing domestic abuse. They provide a 24 hour helpline as well as outreach support and emergency accommodation.

Humdard – Humdard (24 hours) (Domestic Abuse Helpline for Asian Women) Victim Support - 0121 569 7980.


Karma Nirvana Charity is led by Jasvinder Sanghera the author of ‘Shame’ which is recommended as further reading following this course. The book is about Jasvinder’s life and her sister’s. Her sister was set fire to and murdered. The book is a compelling read and an insight into pressures from families where ‘shame’ is viewed. 

Jasvinder Sanghera CBE A survivor of a forced marriage, she is the founder of Karma Nirvana, a national award winning charity that supports both men and women affected by honour based abuse and forced marriages. She is a highly acclaimed international speaker and an expert advisor to the courts in matters of child, civil and criminal proceedings. 

Jasvinder’s memoir ‘Shame’ was described in the House of Lords as a ‘political weapon’ and, along with ‘Daughters of Shame’ are Sunday Times Top 10 Bestsellers. In 2018, she was awarded Honorary Doctor of Law by De Montfort University, Leicester, and Woman of the Year by Leeds City Council and in 2019, she was awarded the Robert Burns Humanitarian of the Year Award and also the Sikh Woman of Substance Award.

Karma Nirvana Charity link http://www.karmanirvana.org.uk/


https://www.freedomcharity.org.uk/

The Freedom Charity aim to empower young people to feel they have the tools and confidence to support each other and have practical ways in which they can help their best friend around the issues of family relationships which can lead to early and forced marriage and dishonour-based violence.

They achieve this by placing informative material in schools, running schools’ programmes and by using social media such as a web site, Facebook, Twitter and apps.


December - Capricorn - Chinese Zodiac

December - Capricorn - Rabbit

December born people are: 
           : Highly disciplined and hold great self control
           : They are responsible and at the some time unforgiving.

December born specialities:
: Their outlook on life is all about exploration and wants to live and enjoy the present.
: You are a multi tasking person who is very talented.
: You tend to get bored of things very quickly.
: You are very sharp and a quick learner.
: The best career for us is in the field of medicine.

Capricorn: We are understanding, sweet and sympathetic.


Rabbit - Tu'
Fire Rabbit
1915 - 1927 - 1931 - 1951 - 1963 - 1975 - 1987 - 1999 - 2011 - 2023
Earthly branch of birth year - Mao Wu Xing
The five elements - Wood (Mu)
Yin Yang - Yin


The rabbit is a tame creature representing hope and life for a long time, they are tender and loving.
The moon goddess Chang'e is the Chinese legend and has a rabbit as her pet which is thought that only this creature is enough to match her natural beauty.
Another way of looking at it is the rabbit is a reincarnation of the moon goddess and is a symbol of pureness and auspiciousness.
Rabbits love freedom and once they set goals they march forward without hesitation or distraction, they are self disciplined, strict with them selves but tolerant with others.
Rabbits look mild and soft but they are alert to dangers and outsiders.
They don't easily trust but do have a courteous manners in social settings.


Celebrities/ Important people born on 23rd December:
Eddie Vedder
Madam CJ Walker
Carol Ann Duffy
Donna Tartt
Muhammed Zafar Iqtal

Shows released 23rd December:
Good morning Vietnam released 1987 
20,000 Leagues under the sea released 1954

Kpop Starts Birthdays on the 23rd December:
Kim Siheon (Noir)
Jaehyo (Block B)
Sanghoon (100%)
Woo
Park Jiwon

Evening Skincare Routine


Hello Beautiful People

Today I am bringing you my Evening Skin Care Routing there's not many things I do so this post might be a little short one.

My Routine:
1: Put my hair up with a headband
2: Fill the sink with warm water
3: wet my face then use my cucumber wash LINK HERE
4: Dry my face 
5: Apply my Argan Oil night serum LINK HERE

My Opinion: I do like this product but I don't love it.
it worked wonders for my skin and if it didn't have the smell I would keep it forever but for me the smell although pleasant to others its just not something I wanted. I am going to finish what i have then try something different, but i do advise you to try it as it is a great serum.


Memorial Day For Comfort Woman in South Korea 14th March

      Memorial Day in South Korea for Comfort Woman

The international memorial day was held for Asian women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.
The National ceremony marking the International Memorial Day for Comfort Women took place at the Hill of National Commemoration in Cheonan, south of Seoul, with the slogan of "memory for the future."
About 100 people, including elderly Korean women sexually enslaved by the imperial Japanese army, participated.
South Koreans have called on Japan to offer a sincere apology and compensation for the victims, but the neighbouring country has remained silent.
It is the third time that the government has hosted a national ceremony commemorating the day since 2018, when it was designated a national memorial day. 

The International Memorial Day for Comfort Women falls on Aug. 14th, the day when the late Kim Hak-soon, a former comfort woman, first publicly testified about Japan operating an organized military brothel program during the war in 1991.


"The testimony by Kim Hak-soon resonated across the globe, revealing the truth and the violence against women," she said. "Now we have to think of what we can learn from the tragedy in history."
The government then opened a digital archive that stored more than 500 files of documents and materials on "comfort women," a euphemistic term for the former sex slaves. 
The online depository (www.archive814.co.kr) includes reports by the United Nations forces during the Korean War and official statements by the Japanese government.

Up to 200,000 women, mostly Koreans, were coerced into sexual servitude in front-line Japanese brothels when the Korean Peninsula was a Japanese colony.





#LifeInaDay2020


In 2020, history is being made every day. 

Australian bushfires. Civil unrest in Hong Kong. A pandemic that took precious lives and changed the way we live. Protests in every corner of America — and around the world — to demand that Black Lives Matter. But in the midst of these extraordinary events, everyday life still continues.

We share moments, music, and meals.

We dance. We laugh. We cry.

We love. We fear. We hope.

What if we captured all of it in a single day? On Saturday, July 25, 2020, film your day and upload your footage and you may become part of a historic documentary – a time capsule of the year 2020. 


Anyone can participate and submissions from all over the world will be woven together to create a feature film, produced by Ridley Scott, directed by Kevin Macdonald, filmed by you, and premiering at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Submissions open on July 25th and close on August 2nd.

Let’s write the story of 2020 together.


Review: Blackhead Remover Facial Skin Care Vacuum

Alright guys I've got a crazy review for you, so everyone has been talking about Blackhead Remover Facial Skin Care Pore Cleaner Vacuum so I found on Ebay for under a tenner (bargain) I had to have it here's how it went in steps!

I read the instructions, all 6 pages of it!
- Put the machine on charge 
(it had some life in it but you can never be too sure)

- Then I washed my face with hot water to open the pores, clean all the days junk 

- The instructions say work from the chin up 
(did that it nipped a bit and suctioned my lips)

- Then the forehead: middle to hair line 
(ok did that that didn't hurt at all)

- Cheeks: nose to ear (I did that and holy fuck did it hurt)

- Nose: for this I choose a smaller head to get in the little sides of your nose 
(did it hurt? did it hurt? well yes it bloody did)

***PAIN WARNING ALWAYS USE THE MOST GENTLE/ LOWEST SETTING TO START***





Personal Review: 
This machine hurts so bad. I ended up giving my nose and the side of my mouth a hickey also I bruised my chin badly.
My face afterwards was so hot and red its unbelievable, I wont be using this again in a hurry maybe once a month (maybe) this was my first time using it so maybe I need more experience.

Aftercare: After you have used this machine I would recommend cooling your face down somewhat before doing anything. I used a coconut facemask and left it on for 15 minutes which too some of the redness out of it but it was still extremely hot. When you feel ready, go ahead with your usual night routine and enjoy your sleep and drink plenty of water.