Monday started off busy enough with a trip to UCD to return some library books and then a visit to Bishopsquare to fill in my holiday forms for SW. All of the above done on my trusty bike so I got lots of exercise yesterday. In the afternoon I went to visit a college friend - also on the bike - and we had tea and biscuits in the garden, it was lovely and warm albeit very windy, it was almost autumnal it was so windy:) However as I left the heavens opened and it lashed rain on the journey home, but it was all downhill so didn't take too long to get back.
After dinner just relaxed and watched a couple of very interesting but very different programmes. One was Panorama about ISIS in Iraq and Syria, very disturbing and upsetting, especially some of the images in the program of shootings and beatings, and the other was about The Secret Life of Your clothes, which was narrated/presented by a very upbeat Nigerian man who travelled to Ghana which is where most of the secondhand/charity shop clothing ends up. There is a huge trade there in these clothes and he travelled around visiting places where the trade is carried out. It was a fascinating insight as I regularly donate to Barnardo's and never think beyond the feel good factor that one gets from 'donating' aka decluttering one's home and wardrobe of clothing no longer needed or wanted. So its nice to see where it ends up and it is appreciated by the people there for many different reasons.
Namaste,
Marie.
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