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Sending a Life Box to Pakistan.

Support people affected by the floods in Pakistan. This is something most people can do, these are items we can pick up during a regular shopping trip, we have priced the boxes here at around £8 a box, if you can please send a box or get together with a group of friends to send a box or boxes. ”Pakistan International Airlines has offered its support to the humanitarian aid effort to ensure that basic food and medical supplies reach Pakistan. They are asking members of the public to send gift aid boxes which they will transport to Pakistan free of charge on the next available flight. Unprecedented floods in the history of Pakistan have caused displacement of at least 20 million men, women & children. These people are stranded without food, water and shelter. Our first priority must be to provide them food & water in the most efficient & expeditious manner possible.” PIA has developed a Life Box which will provide high energy food & liquids to sustain a four member family / group for 2-3 days each.

Here is a list of what needs to be included: http://www.piac.com.pk/Flood_Relief/contents.html

CONTENTS 2 x Bottles water (1.5 Litres) 2 x Six pack of juices (250 ml) 3 x High energy packets biscuits. 1 x Milk Pack (1 Litre) 1 x Packet of dates 2 x Anti Septic Soap Bars 1 x Pack of paper cups 6 x Sachets of ORS (Oral Rehydration Salts) 1 x Box of chocolates.

I am aware that lots of these foods are the kind of foods that many of us do not eat and would not recommend others eat, but I have thought lots about this and in my humble opinion, this is a time for people to eat many of these foods. Someone living in an extreme survival situation eating crisps, salty and sweet biscuits will be needing the calories and energy and burning it off straight away, these foods will be unlikely to cause problems to people starving who eat them for a few days. People who are not in these situation and eat these foods day in day out will face health problems from them but that isn’t the case here.

We have found a crisp/potato chips box is aprox. the best size – to save you spending ages with a ruler! And we have all asked for free boxes from supermarkets and they give them away. If you can’t find say 1 box of salty biscuits include two packets etc

Collection & Help Desks have been created at all stations in the PIA network to facilitate donors. PIA’s Emergency Response Centre is working 24/7 to maintain close liaison with all stations to streamline logistics.

Here are the collection points for the UK: http://www.piac.com.pk/flood_relief/Guidelines4UK.htm

Here is the international list inc. USA: http://www.piac.com.pk/Flood_Relief/ERP.htm

Call your local airport and ask for PIA and ask them the nearest drop off point. Also bear in mind many mosques are co-ordinating the boxes to the airports locally. We dropped our box off to a friend who took it to her mosque, which has also been offering collection locally and the boxes were taken to the airport in vans in bulk. Over 350 went off from this community alone. Well done everyone!

We all send love and reiki and prayers too.

with all love, thanks for reading and support to all those affected by the floods,

Grace and Linus xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Good Afternoon!

How are you?

I love so many things we are blessed and our lives overflow with love, here is just a smattering of joy…

I know I haven’t blogged for ages, if it counts I have had tons of blog ideas and wanted to write loads but they haven’t got to the screen. If you are reading and you like this please feel free to subscribe – you can click the box when you leave a comment and wordpress will helpfully email you when I post! Which is a) lovely and b) hopefully will happen more often soon if you would like to read what I have been writing visit me at http://basicmissions.com/?page_id=206

So inspired by the Love Lists of Kris Carr at crazysexylife.com. I wanted belatedly to make one of my own…..

Image Credit: Linus

1. My lush new cowboy boots on sale from bourgeois boheme http://www.bboheme.com/

Image Credit. Linus

2. Linus’s cool photos

3. The Water Ioniser. Our lovely new water ioniser, we love it and its anti inflammatory properties and we love everyone at http://theofficialwaterionizer.com. Image belongs to them. Its just here because we love it and want to share that with you.

4. The newest Ning on the web, http://basicmissionslife.ning.com/ come and see and join, I LOVE it here.

“Hello all. Just wanted to let you know that BasicMissionsLife.ning.com is now up and running a playground for the grounded and spiritual person. I hope this place to be a place where people come to share knowledge on life and hope for the future. If your healing drop by and share what works and what doesn’t and over the next week or so it will get much more professional and more BasicMissions like. I want you to know if you have a conversation to start just head over to forum and get started. I look forward to my vision of this space to open like a lotus flower and I look forward to learning from all of you. I cannot wait to see it turn into what is in my mind. So take a minute and come on over and join  this bodaciously bawdy community of worshipers of all things God, and let’s experience life together all of it the good the bad and the ugly and if you get a chance pay forward some of your blessings. I will have the community rules up no money is to ever be asked for or exchanged no ugliness and respect everyones journey. I hope you don’t judge and learn. So here we come ning on our shakey little legs like five year olds entering the classroom for the first time.

Help us grow. And get to know yourself a little. http:www.BasicMissionsLife.ning.com hugs Callie,Duncan,Grace, Linus and Saatchi and Bertie.” basicmissions.com

Image Credit: dan/ http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=587

5. Sunshine. So it is Autumn coming and it is lovely and if you want to know my feelings and excitement about it see Friday’s Prayer: Into the Night of the World on basicmissions.com. However, the grey damp weather is hard on my aches and pains and the SAD and so the sunshine is so welcome and I love it. Plus our garden, what a miracle is getting adapted and sunshine gives me hope that I will get out there and get some veg growing this summer still.

Image Credit: Simon Howden http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=404

6. Growing our own sprouts. We are growing buckwheat lettuce, pea sprouts, sunflower greens, alfalfa sprouts, mung bean sprouts, sunflower sprouts and I am currently enjoying carob sprouted almond mylk linus just made as I am doing this! We love sprouts, indoor or semi – out door (a stand by the back door) gardening and healthy cheap organic greens.

Image Credit: Suat Eman http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=151

7. Harvest. Sticking to the growing things love theme, my next love list item is all the abundant fruit and veg avaliable at the moment and all that people are kindly giving to us. We love you. By the way I’m sorry lots of these images are not my own, I have some lovely pictures of harvest veg but they are still on the camera but will be coming to this blog soon soon. Yes, we have had lovely plums, courgettes, apples, pears, swiss chard and marrows. Thank you every one and yum yum from us. Pop over to http://basicmissionslife.ning.com we have some great info and discussions up on growing your own and preserving and using gluts of fruit and vegetables. We had plums dried in the dehydrator and are planning crisps this weekend from the marrows, raw vegan salt and vinegar ( pink salt and apple cyder vinegar) in the dehydrator. Fun fun.

Image Credit: ahmet guler http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=1039

8. The wonderful full body massage L bought me as a surprise gift. I thought I was going for a medical appointment and then massage bliss. Thank you and Love you my beloved.

Image Credit: Graeme Weatherston http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=330

9. Post! Owl post. We love owl post and I love all the lovely letters, we love comments and emails but true real letters and writing paper and stamps post is so special too. Thank you for all my lovely post, it is one of my favorite things ever! I was reading and replying to a lovely letter today, it makes me warm inside and joyful. Hope you have warm joy today too.

Image Credit: Felixco, Inc. http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=1012

10. YOU. I love you for being you, reading my blog, taking the time to visit my tiny cherished corner of cyberspace and reading my list and hopefully making your own in some way, shape or form. Thank you to all our treasured friends and family who are love lists themselves. We love you.

Thank you for visiting, hope you had fun and come again,

love and snoozles,

Grace xxxxxxx