100 ABSTRACTS - NUMBER 76 AND FLOWER FRIDAY

Usually when it is Flower Friday, I go for a wander around the garden to see what flowers are blooming - there is such a wonderful choice at the moment and since we had the rain earlier in the week, things have come on in leaps and bounds.

I was going to blip our Blue Angel clematis, but then I saw Mr. HCB wandering along behind the long border with two watering cans, feeding the various pots, so thought I would get a shot of him.  Of course, he is quite happy for me to do that at the moment, because I then make him “abstract” and as he says “They can’t see my face”!  

I have put the original shot in as an extra in a collage, along with a new clematis, Viticella Valour, which has done really well and also the Blue Angel clematis at the bottom right.  You can tell I love purple!  You can also see our Compassion Rose, Honeysuckle, Geum and Mdme Julia Correvon Clematis.   

Once again, I have done a little fartnarkling in my iColorama app and this is the result - Number 76 in my 100 Abstracts Challenge for the Mamie Martin Fund, for which I am raising awareness with these Blips and which helps impoverished girls in North Malawi to have a good secondary school education.

I am pleased to say that as so many have been generous, I am now up to £220 in my sponsorship with an extra £35 that has been gift-aided, making a total of £255.  Thank you so much to everyone who has donated - I would love to get up to £350 so that we could sponsor a girl for a full year at one of the boarding schools - that would be amazing.

“Fees at a boarding school - necessary for reasons of distance, safety and allowing the girls to study - are approximately £350.00 a year.  However, fees at the Community Day school which the Fund supports are considerably lower at £55.00 a year.  In 2021, the Mamie Martin Fund is  supporting 139 girls across the six schools and three organisations.”

Quite honestly, I don’t think I valued my secondary education as much as I should have done but I do believe that the majority of girls supported by the Mamie Martin fund value theirs much more.  They often go on to study at university and then go back to their communities to make a difference there and become fantastic role models to others.

“The power you have is to be 
     the best version of yourself you can be, 
               so you can create a better world.”
Ashley Rickards

https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/MaureenIles