Through our bar we help street children in Nepal.

Tuesday 14^th August

Graham:

Hi, I had hoped in a way that May’s suggestion of me being the subject of a sponsored haircut would fade with the passage of time, but no way May was at the bar today with Margot to form a reception party, when I returned from my daily cycle rise to Benahavis. May has enlisted the services of Pepe also a customer in the bar. Pepe has his own hair and beauty salon in the Diana centre and is a very fine hairdresser.

The idea of course is that I have my shoulder length Bohemian styled hair cut to a short and respectable length. I will definitely miss my long hair, but if it raises a few hundred Euros towards the target amount we hope to raise in order to help street children in Nepal, then what’s a bit of hair when you look at it in that light?

Through our bar we help street children in Nepal to be fed, clothed, housed and educated. The Founder of the British registered charity “The Buddha Memorial Children’s Home Trust” Layla Patterson lives in Andalucia and recently went to Nepal and made a film of the general plight of the street kids of Kathmandu and the work that is being done to help them. This film has proved itself very useful when raising funds to help these poor children.

Anybody reading our Graham’s bar blog who would like to either sponsor a street child in Nepal or simply make a donation, is invited to contact me by email for more information:

Graham.bullock2@gmail.com

The registered charity number is: 1115273.

We have a lot of clubs and schools who either sponsor children or make donations.

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The jeep is sick and getting sicker by the day. It is booked to go into the garage tomorrow. I know in the UK that 4 by4’s are increasingly becoming considered, as environmentally unfriendly, most of them seem to have massive gas guzzling engines kicking out around 200-300 bhp and are only used on normal roads. We have a Mitsubishi with a much smaller 100 bhp engine. Here in Andalucia we quite often climb up unmade mountain roads, cross-rivers and drive on sand. Take all that into consideration and add to that that to run a bar you need at least a medium sized van, 100 bhp, then I feel that we are actually driving the vehicle that we need. I do however share the opinion that a lot of the world’s resources are wasted when a great big 4 by 4 is produced to do the school run and little else.