{"id":1071,"date":"2015-07-24T17:14:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2015-07-24T17:14:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:14:38","slug":"july-2015-african-daisy-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/2015\/07\/24\/july-2015-african-daisy-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2015 &#8211; African Daisy Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well they say that in every cloud there is a silver lining.\u00a0\u00a0 Before the end of flaming June we have deluge Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0 Our plant sale to raise funds for Friends of Sick Children in Malawi at the Lion\u2019s Show is a complete wash out in every sense of the word; sadly it rains all day so only the hardy brave it to Abbey Fields.<\/p>\n<p>I take a large boot full of plants into work to sell on the Monday, and as they are such fantastic quality and value courtesy of the generosity of the nursery one our Soroptimists works for, they sell very easily.<\/p>\n<p>Someone in the office buys an African daisy as a gift for a consultant she is working with.<\/p>\n<p>Another amazing co-incidence, the consultant has worked at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital supporting the training of paediatric medics!\u00a0\u00a0 And knows some of the people I\u2019ve been in contact with very well.\u00a0\u00a0 Another welcome connection for me.\u00a0\u00a0 We meet up and have an interesting conversation about the issues of medicine shortages, and the problems with sustainability and continuity of supply.<\/p>\n<p>He gives me some valuable advice about the shopping list they\u2019ve sent me.\u00a0\u00a0 He points out that the digital thermometers will only last as long as the batteries.\u00a0\u00a0 For us, \u00a35 for a digital thermometer is not much, and we may not even bother to replace the battery although they are relatively cheap.<\/p>\n<p>The average wage in Malawi is \u00a3500 pa compared to the UK average of \u00a326,500.\u00a0\u00a0 Batteries are a similar price to those in the UK\u00a0apparently.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s difficult to comprehend that items may be useless all for the want of a battery.\u00a0\u00a0 I seriously consider taking out spare batteries, but maybe it would be better to buy them out there as this would help the local economy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1072\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2015\/07\/African-daisies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1072\" src=\"\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2015\/07\/African-daisies-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Osteopermums, aka African Daisies\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2015\/07\/African-daisies-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kenilworth-and-district\/files\/2015\/07\/African-daisies.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osteopermums, aka African Daisies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well they say that in every cloud there is a silver lining.\u00a0\u00a0 Before the end&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":523,"featured_media":1072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sharons-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>July 2015 - African Daisy Chain | News | Blog | Events | SI Kenilworth and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Kenilworth and District : Blog &amp; News : July 2015 - African Daisy Chain : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Kenilworth and District . 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