So here’s the thing — the secret thing — Chapter 1

Have I mentioned the Secret Thing to you at all?  You probably won’t have seen anything about it on Twitter.  It has barely registered on my radar at all and so I haven’t mentioned it much.  At all.   Nope.

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Well the secret thing is happening and let me tell you it is rather huge.   But I am embargoed (ooooh get me) until 31st.   So I can’t tell you what the actual Secret Thing is.

But I can tell you the background to it so it all makes sense.

Back in November I saw Emma Freud tweet that she was off to a meeting at Comic Relief.  For she is a Director, of course.  But then you knew that.   You also knew that I have met Emma a few times so she knows I am not just a crazy stalker.   When I saw that Tweet I replied and said “are you doing anything with bloggers?  Would love to try and rally some troops to support Comic Relief next year and do some fund raising”.

Emma replied and said “email me”.   So I did.

A meeting was arranged with a lovely bunch at Comic Relief on December 4th and off I went.  Dragging my partner in crime Annie (Mammasaurus) along because she is as mad as me but has a great knowledge for all things blog.    We presented our bonkers ideas for fund raising and how we could ask bloggers to get involved and support this great cause.

This year it is 25 years of Red Nose Day and what better way than to show all the good work they have done than with social media?

We came away from the meeting thinking “well they clearly think we are both quite mad” and being promised “they would be in touch”.

There are various laws surrounding fund raising and licences etc need to be in place so they needed to check the legalities of what we were proposing.   And also common decency laws I suspect.

And then on December 13th an email came from Comic Relief that made me literally scream out loud and run around the house like a loon.   Well more of a loon than usual.  An email of such epic proportions I read it with my mouth open.  And then I re-read it and screamed again.   Before forwarding it on to Annie with just a one line of swear words above it.

An email asking us to get involved in the #SecretThing.  Except it isn’t called #SecretThing really.    It is called something else entirely.

But I can’t tell you that until 31st.

Annie will tell you all about her Chapter 1 tomorrow

and Penny will  tell you on Wednesday about how she got involved.

Thursday is the day we can tell you all about it and ask you to help us for three days as we embark on the #SecretThing.   We would love you to be behind us and support us as we do our #SecretThing.   Because the whole point of the #SecretThing actually is you.

It starts on Sunday and runs until Wednesday.   And will be quite intense and rather epic.

This is not about fund raising for Comic Relief, though that will follow and we will announce that in February, this is all about support and sharing and showing the love.

Are you in?

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