There is enough food for everyone in the world to be able to eat to stay alive, IF… the latest campaign from Save The Children is one we can all get involved with so easily, to help stop hunger. Like this?Read more… Recommended by Ma Puce
There is nothing more powerful than feeling like you are part of a movement Last night – standing outside Somerset House, with several brilliant bloggers tweeting away beside me, and Bill Nighy on stage in front of me talking passionately about land grabs and tax dodging and poverty as a form of slavery – I [...]
I was contacted recently by a charity called I CAN which I have to admit I wasn’t terribly familiar with. They are a charity specialising in supporting children under 5 who have communication difficulties. According to their statistics, more than 1 million children in the UK currently have long term problems with their speech. This [...]
A lovely friend of mine, Sarah, has been following my blog for some time. Sarah and her daughter have both been diagnosed with 22q11 deletion syndrome, the same syndrome as my son Samuel. Sarah has been reading my posts on “A Mile for Autism” with interest and given that like me she knows the difficulties [...]
Sure enough, he was there, happily floating around near the shoreline. Every now and again he would pop his head up, probably taking a look at the growing crowd watching him. Oliver and Isabella were so excited, they love animals and Oliver was particularly vocal in repeating everything daddy was telling him about the seal. [...]
Stockings are my favourite part of Christmas by a long way. There is such joy in choosing, tiny, personal gifts for loved ones; in wrapping them; in stuffing them down into the stocking in exactly the right way, filling the spaces with gold chocolate coins and sweet smelling clementines. I am so glad [...]
Understandably when you approach a charity to rehome a dog, you are expected to jump through several hoops to ensure that you are a suitable candidate, you have adequate facilities for the dog and are fully aware of any problems the dog may have. They want the dogs to go to the right homes as it is very frustrating [...]
13 was a lucky number in yesterday’s Pudsey advent calendar But, we had 4 correct guesses, so this evening The Princess put those 4 names in a hat and we can now reveal the winner of the Mega Hi-Tower from Garden Games is…. Like this?Read more… Recommended by The Princess and The Pickle
A place to call home. At the time of writing I’m in a refuge with my three children after the breakdown of my relationship. I have been for the past two months. Like this?Read more… Recommended by Knackered Housewife
A couple of weeks ago some lovely bloggers made some Christmas decorations for a drop in center run by local charity, The Society of St. James. This sweet angel above was made my Kyd, eldest son of Alice from My Life, My Son, My Way (if you have never visited her blog please do – she’s one [...]
Christmas Cards are a minefield every year in this house, do we make them, do we buy them. Once we have decided that is one of the parts of Christmas that I do enjoy. Sitting down a couple of nights in a row, writing them, addressing them and sending them off. However this year they [...]
Back in March this year, a tiny man called Sam came into the world. Dawn surprised me with a text the day after my birthday, saying he was here. He wasn’t due for another five weeks. After a stay in the neo natal unit, he was home with his family and fit as a butcher’s [...]
The Princess and The Pickle have opened the second box in their Pudsey advent calendar! What did they find today….? Like this?Read more… Recommended by The Princess and The Pickle
If this doesn’t persuade you to take part in Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day then I suspect nothing will… Like this?Read more… Recommended by DorkyMum
The Princess and The Pickle have opened the first box in their Pudsey advent calendar! Do we have a winner today….? Like this?Read more… Recommended by The Princess and The Pickle
I think it was on Tuesday afternoon that I first saw this: “15 year old girl with terminal cancer has written a bucket list. Let’s see if we can make some of it come true“. Alice Pyne is indeed a 15 year old girl, from Ulverston who has been fighting cancer for four years. She [...]
As the mother of three healthy children who has never suffered the heartache of a still birth or a miscarriage I cannot begin to comprehend how devastating it must be. It seems that not a week goes by these days where we don’t hear of another tragic loss of an unborn child of “celebrity” parents. [...]
Today’s guest post is from a small charity which I support called Arts Emergency. It was set up by the comedian Josie Long, and fundraiser Neil Griffiths, and I’m thrilled to give them the opportunity to explain a bit more about what they do and why. As well as all the info that’s on the [...]
Today is the 25th of November and the thing weighing on most of our minds is probably something to do with that holiday in exactly a month’s time… Like this?Read more… Recommended by Knackered Housewife
So, can I introduce myself? I’m the Reverend Dougie Burnett, a minister with the United Reformed Church in Bristol. Next April with my two daughters, Isabella and Lucy, I shall be taking on the London to Paris bike ride for the charity PiggyBankKids. This is in the way of seeking monies for our fundraising (we [...]
