Lesley's Loot

Together we are Stronger https://www.unifiedminds.co.uk/ is a charity for people who need extra support to get them through the hurdles of daily living. Mental health issues are on the increase and this has been largely exasperated by the aftershocks of the pandemic. However it is thanks to charities like this one that help is available. Young people especially were effected. Many of them cannot go back to school. While adults are finding they cannot return to work either because of their ever increasing health issues such as not being able to find work or mobility problems bringing on mental health issues resulting on an ever increasing reliance on the overstretched NHS.  

This is an extraordinary school find; even the infants are working according to this, what you would call a school worksheet. It reveals the first stages of the world at work. Play is after all work as its doing stuff you may or may not want to do. Like cleaning the house. The kid might not like playing with Play-dough or going outside in the garden but it’s in the curriculum so you have to do it. At work you may not like having to attend those meetings but you have to do it to improve productivity etc. Learning to use the toilet is all too important when it comes to employment; there mustn’t be any soiling or wetting otherwise you’ll get the sack. So here is the place to learn all that – school. What would we do without school? Leaving it up to the parents is not always the greatest solution if you tune into today’s media. However not all children fair well at school either. The main culprit though is social media.   

This tiny limpet once belonged to a beach. It’s now in the middle of a busy street far away from it’s usual surrounding's of sea, sand and rock but now leaves, litter and tarmac.

Look who’s been to Australia for their summer holidays. This kid, who proudly presents this in the form of a cute little clip on koala bear souvenir. Alternatively they may well have given this to a friend and on a more cynical note may well put their friendship in jeopardy. This maybe because their friend hasn’t been able to arrange a holiday as extravagant as going abroad, either resorting to a cheap camp site somewhere in the UK or has spent their entire holidays at home or worse still at summer school as their parents/guardians go out to work and so never venturing further than the school playground. So just imagine for a minute some scenario around this one. I have to bitch at this point as girls are notorious for this sort of thing... Oh god is that’ s all you did all summer – Amelia you’re so dull. Oh S u zie, (another girl here who’s been on holiday like her) did you, OMG that’s just so ooo cool. Look at my pics – yea that’s me on the roller-coaster a t Disneyland P

It’s not just the sounds of the kids in the playground and the clogging up of roads that tell you it’s back to school even the litter does too.

Another hair grip – and it’s another unicorn which is, you’ve got it – pink!

Just go and dump you’re old pushchair outside someone's house why don’t you? Fly tipping is a degrading problem amongst our population today. Symptoms can range from being too lazy or too busy and most of all selfishness. This could quite easily have been sold in a charity shop benefiting a family. Instead selfishly trashed and left for someone else to pick up and dispose of. The cure is quite simple; take on less work, calm down, think of others less fortunate than yourself.   

I know just what it’s like when you’ve got long hair and it’s getting in the way of everything you’re doing like eating and doing your school work. Then you simply reach for one of these – the trusty old hair grip or hair slide. This ones a cute little fashion accessory version as you can see. For the older female on the other hand then you’re using something more specialised; the hair spray so your hair stays in place all day long: You look good and you feel good too so one of the TV advert slogans springs to mind. As an adult that hair grip is either too childish or too impoverished or just plain weird. I know as a friend of mine used to tease me about it. Is the hair spray option too good to be true? Yes! Over use can give you a permanent bad hair day as it’s not good for your hair and it’s an environmental polluter too! Short hair’s the answer to all these wows. Firstly is not messy – just leave it as it sorts it’s self out – out of sight out of mind. Secondly – it’s good

This cute little neckless is typically made with fake white pearls.