Charity

{Writing Prompt} Survival

Nickie over at Typecast is running a writing prompt #dosomethingyummy for the CLIC Sargent Do Something Yummy awareness campaign.  And the subject this week is survival and what we’ve over come. We have thankfully been blessed in that we’ve been very lucky and not had any terrible illnesses such as cancer in our family. So my story is about Miss [...]

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Creating Shade

Kat from Housewife Confidential shared this product months ago with me on Google Reader. It seemed a bit daft writing about it in dark and dismal February, but as on Monday my car’s temperature gauge was reading 35c degrees (95f)  it now seems a bit more appropriate. These rather gorgeous sunshades made by Hollie and [...]

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Status of Africa Campaign

I get approached about a lot of charity campaigns, but this one is close to my heart.  I nearly died giving birth in a lovely safe NHS hospital and had there been no modern medical care or intervention, I’m under no illusions that both Miss L and I wouldn’t be here now. AMREF, is Africa’s [...]

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Aid for Japan

What is there to say? It just beyond horrific and getting worse. If you want to help by sending financial support http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/, http://www.redcross.org.uk/ and http://www.shelterbox.org/ are all running campaigns and getting help up and running on the ground where it’s needed most. In addition I had an email about this auction this morning as well. [...]

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Charity Store Find

I was wandering past the Oxfam store today on my way to the hairdressers, when I spotted the perfect picture frame to make one of these fabulous chalkboards . It’s gold but it’s nothing a lick of white paint on the frame can’t solve – blog post to come soon. But anyway,  as I was [...]

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Waterless

It’s been one of those days here.  Just after 8am this morning the water at our house stopped working, so I popped round the neighbours thinking that it was just ours and it turned out they were all down too. I shouldn’t have been so pleased, but I had images of the pipes under our [...]

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Blogadesh

Blogadesh – some of my blogger friends – Josie from Sleep is for the Weak, Sian from Mummy Tips and Eva from NixdMinx are going to fly out to Bangladesh for a week to see the work of Save the Children and report back via their blogs raise awareness. Mummy Blogging at it’s very best!  [...]

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Street to School

I’m a passionate believer in education improving people’s lives.  My parents were little more than teenagers when they had me, but worked really hard and encouraged me to do well at school, which meant I was the first person in our family to go to University.  As a result there is no question that our [...]

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Great Ormond Street Hospital – Peter Pan Week 26-30th April

One of Miss L’s best friends has spent a lot of her young life in and out of Great Ormond Street hospital having excellent treatment for a genetic disease. So I was delighted when I was contacted by their fund-raising arm to raise awareness of their Peter Pan week 26th -30th April 2010. Join thousands [...]

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Sports Relief 3 Mile Run

Obviously it’s not me running it (I have boobs, I can’t run!), but my lovely hubby is running 3 miles in aid of Sports Relief on the 21st March.  So if you have a bit of spare cash, no matter how small you can sponsor him here Thanks x

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