Charity Begins At Home (aka Sorry!!!)

Hello, readers! I am aware that it has been several months since my last update, and for this I apologise from the depths of my heart. It has been a busy few months, personally. I have not forgotten about this Blog, what it represents, nor three-hundred-and-sixty-five-day mission, but I am, I confess, failing…

As the title of this Post suggests, I am updating you to inform you that my failure to maintain my £1-a-day-to-charity task has been grinded to an utter halt due to the fact that I can barely afford to feed myself. There have been days when I have literally been eating nothing but toast or a microwaved potato decorated with butter, and I have had to take food donations several times also. I was almost homeless and I am now in a home I cannot afford, with no cooker and no working bathroom. I know that there are people that are far, far worse off than I and I could not be more grateful for the fact that I am in my current state, rather than a worse one, but things are not good at all for me presently.

Alas, if I cannot afford to maintain my own health and safety, I cannot possibly be expected to afford the £30-odd that I was priorly committing to paying each month, day-to-day to charities around the local area, my home country, and of course the world.

I cannot emphasise how much I am determined to return to my mission, and to catch-up on the backlog of money that I owe the charities! But first I must sort my finances. I have had to cut-out all non-essentials and return to the very, very basics of food, gas, electric and water, and I only just managed to afford to install a telephone line and internet here, which I am not even sure was a good idea… but I “made-the-call” because I felt like I needed both these things, for personal and professional (freelancing) reasons.

I shall attempt to keep this Blog updated (now that I am online again), should I do any more fundraisers, or manage to fix my situation and continue with my £1-a-day task, but in the meanwhile, please remember why I did this and in your own, unique, beautiful way, please make every day feel like Christmas Day, and I hope that you are all living happy, healthy lives. Many Blessings to you all, and goodbye, until my next update.