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curiouswombat) wrote2022-03-14 07:53 pm
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Armstreet.
A quick link to Armstreet - "War in Ukraine and ArmStreet .For those of you who don't know them, they make the most amazing medieval clothing for re-enactment, LARP and so on. I have bought from them in the past. They are a Ukrainian company. That link goes to their blog - they are based in Kharkiv, which has been badly bombed and some of the staff have left the city, others remain.
People have been buying gift vouchers to send them money - and now they are also making Warm blanket for refugees fleeing war for free. Available in: satin fabric of random colour :: by medieval store ArmStreet They have bought fabric and are making easily washable blankets - which you can buy from them for them to distribute for you - the info is on the page from the second link.
Over on my LJ there are nice pictures of my daughter and her husband hand feeding red pandas, and some garden pics. What shame I can't post them directly here - there is little point in using the URL from LJ if the main reason for this blog is in case that one disappears.
People have been buying gift vouchers to send them money - and now they are also making Warm blanket for refugees fleeing war for free. Available in: satin fabric of random colour :: by medieval store ArmStreet They have bought fabric and are making easily washable blankets - which you can buy from them for them to distribute for you - the info is on the page from the second link.
Over on my LJ there are nice pictures of my daughter and her husband hand feeding red pandas, and some garden pics. What shame I can't post them directly here - there is little point in using the URL from LJ if the main reason for this blog is in case that one disappears.
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I simply cut'n'paste from my phohothost (google pics) and it works perfectly well if you want to add pics here and I post a heck of a lot of pics.
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LJ having its own photo storage saves the problem when I post there - I upload the picture to scrapbook and post direct from there. I am really surprised that DW haven't adopted it by now, to be honest.
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DW is still a work in progress in some ways.
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Have you tried just doing a straight cut'n'paste from google into your post? It limits the size you can use, but it's a reasonably sensible size.
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I probably will link some of my LJ pics here sometimes, but regard the link as possibly transient.
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It's so frustrating!
ACK!!
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I saw an English aid worker speaking from an enormous reception centre that had been set up in Poland, saying he had driven over with a lorry full of donations and, honestly, he thought it had been a mistake - all the same shops are in Poland and it would have been much more effective to have sent money and bought things locally. He said that, now he was there, he was staying to help in any way he could - but 'send money'!
It was an entire shopping centre that had closed during the pandemic - and the group running it had bought hundreds of camp beds from a nearby company, plus blankets and pillows. Then a former toy shop was now a play area, as it was decorated for children, and a former restaurant was now the food centre providing meals for everyone. You could see straight away why money on the spot was more useful than a truck full of clothes and nappies travelling over 1,000 miles.
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For pics here on DW, I think I had the best luck using Flickr, although I also tried copy/paste from Google. Neither are ideal, and it doesn't get around the privacy issues, but it does at least work, after a fashion. DW needs to rise above their 'only for uncensored fic' past and realize that a lot of people do more than just post fics here nowadays. That said, I'm still very grateful DW exists and is eager to help out with LJers who drift this way due to *waves at everything*.
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Yes - I prefer to give to people on the spot if I can, too. I am happy to give to Armstreet's blanket project as I have known the company for years. And I also give to a local charity based right here on the island as, again, it has been run by a Christian couple well known to a lot of people, for the last 10+ years, who are already in situ on the Ukrainian/Romanian border, as they usually work with Romanian families there. So, again, they were able to use money transferred from the island within 24 hours of the start of hostilities - again to buy blankets on the spot for those arriving needing somewhere to sleep.