{"id":18265,"date":"2021-09-04T09:42:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T13:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=18265"},"modified":"2021-09-12T14:41:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T18:41:19","slug":"episode-421-a-visit-to-the-sally-ann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=18265","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 421 A VISIT TO THE “SALLY ANN”"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 421    A VISIT TO THE \u2018SALLY ANN\u201d<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
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Now here is something we all might need.  I am talking about a visit  to the \u2018Sally Ann\u201d better known as <\/div>\n
the Salvation Army  Thrift Store.  There is one in your neighbourhood.<\/div>\n

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Marjorie knows how to have a good time without going overboard.  She gathers up things we do not need or do not wear anymore<\/div>\n
and takes them down to our local Salvation Army Thrift Store.  Then the fun begins.  She shops in the store buying other people\u2019s<\/div>\n
cast off clothing and other pieces of bric a brac.   Some people are too proud to do this.  That is really too bad because \u201cThrift\u201d shopping<\/div>\n
benefits so many people.  And it is so much fun.<\/div>\n

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We get lots of laughs doing our shopping.  I  come along often but not as often as Marjorie would like..  Last week I bought a nice shirt\u2026took it<\/div>\n
home\u2026tried it on and it did not fit.  Marjorie took it back as an exchange item.  This week I was shopping at the Thrift Store and bought<\/div>\n
the same damn shirt.  Dead loss but amusing.<\/div>\n

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Here\u2026take a look at Marjorie shopping and being warmly greeted by the store manager.<\/div>\n

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Some collector will spot this shirt signed by the whole team.<\/div>\n

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Reminder of the Great Flood that made Noah build his Ark.  If that happened.  Perhaps it did.  The oceans are rising as the ice cap melts.<\/div>\n

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I wonder why not one has bought these?<\/div>\n

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I JUST love the Salvation Army books\u2026and I recently was rewarded with one of the best books<\/div>\n
I have read lately.  The title is COAL.<\/div>\n

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COAL was written by Babara Freese  in 2003.  It is a frightening and fascinating book documenting the role of coal in<\/div>\n
our western civilization and terrible results that followed the coal roll in the Industrial Revolution<\/div>\n

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Without coal there could not be an industrial revolution in 1800.  No civilization as we know it today.  But coal is a mixed blessing as anyone with black lung<\/div>\n
can testify    Coal burning has released so much carbon into the air that our civilization is under threat of collapse.<\/div>\n
Not a happy book but it sounds one word loud and clear.  ALERT ALER ALERT.<\/div>\n

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LET\u2019s not get so serious  There are hundreds of fine fiction novels to be found on the Sally Ann shelves <\/div>\n
if you need relief after reading COAL.   Escapism.<\/div>\n

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And, oh yes, there is a nice brown checked shirt on the Extra Large shirt rack\u2026please buy it so I don\u2019t buy it for a third time.<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 421    A VISIT TO THE \u2018SALLY ANN\u201d alan skeoch sept. 2021 Now here is something we all might need.  I am talking about a visit  to the \u2018Sally Ann\u201d better known as  the Salvation Army  Thrift Store.  There is one in your neighbourhood. Marjorie knows how to have a good time without going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}