Let us eat, drink and be merry!
A few weeks ago the BBC published an article on how to eat for less than £1 a day, in reference to the Global Poverty Project’s challenge to “Live Below the Line”. Others have explained better than I could why the diet suggested in the article is totally unrealistic (for example, it is not possible to buy a quarter of a courgette). There’s a good blogpost on atheltheunread.wordpress.com. Last week, the BBC published a follow-up article with “Readers’ Stories” of living on little money. A few of the stories included phrases like “my dog eats better than me”, “porridge week”, “it is very lonely...