A lifestyle blog
Our visit to Tanzania was timed to coincide with International Women’s Day this year. A real chance to show that there are women who are inspiring, despite living in some of the world’s poorest communities. It has been a real honour to meet them this week and has once again reignited my desire to keep on shouting really loudly about how incredible African women are. It has also reinforced my
This morning we met Joyce. Joyce is a poultry producer and currently has a clutch of 300 chicks. Thanks to the training and support she has received from The Gatsby Trust next week she will double that with another 400 and be able to use the new building she has built behind her house.
Meet Bertha. We met Bertha today at home just outside Dar es Salaam. We were welcomed into her living room and were introduced to her by our guides from The Gatsby Trust. They have been supporting Bertha for the past year and have provided her with training in order to grow her business. A business she had started before she went to them, but need help to make it grow
Day one is now behind us on this trip. Well a part day really as we didn’t land until 3pm. But the drive from the airport to the hotel gave us our first glimpse of this bustling African city. Vibrant and busy busy busy. And traffic like you would not believe! We were stationary for about fifteen minutes at one point and I asked our driver if there was a
If you have seen my tweets today you might have got wind of the fact that I am visiting a Sports Relief funded project this week. As are Penny and Annie. What we have neglected to mention thus far is where that project is. Though the title of this post has now given the game away. Yes, we are off to Tanzania to visit the Gatsby Trust!
Next weekend is International Women’s Day and to celebrate that we came up with the idea of an “Inspirational Women” blog linky over on the Team Honk Blog. Asking people to blog about the women who inspires them. On Team Honk it is Davina McCall. The woman is a phenomenon. On my blog though, and personal to me is my mum, Olivia. I am the only person who gets to
Last week I had a meeting in a hotel (stop smirking at the back!) where we perched in Reception for a couple of hours to have an offline discussion and do a bit of recruiting. I don’t get to see my main client that often as both our jobs are fairly mobile, and she’s not my only client. Plus, well I often have important Tweets to send
I am plagued with self doubt. I always have been. Not believing in myself is sort of what makes me, well, me really. Am I am good enough mother? Wife? Colleague? Friend? Blogger? I want to be good at all those things and it is hard to know if I achieve it. I guess compliments every now and again mean I must get some things right. When Penny, Annie and
Uh Oh. I wasn’t sure I was ready to share my guilty pleasure with you. You will judge. There will be no going back after this one.
Not me. Though I must admit there are times when I can get a bit hysterical, I admit. But something I witnessed on Saturday night, that I have never seen since I saw George Michael put a shuttlecock down his shorts and then throw it in to the crowd. And that was so long ago he was straight.
I have made no secret of my disapproval of the Amazon Kindle. I have written about how I much prefer books a couple of times. Laughed as people on planes are told to put their “book” down as the Captain is preparing his descent and therefore all electronics must be stowed away. Savoured having to go to the book shop to buy a book, the delay in getting hold of
Yet again this week the planned Ranty Friday gets binned and a replacement hastily bashed out in a rage. A RAGE. This time over a tweet that I saw last night, from, of all places, Harrods. Yes, that Harrods. They tweeted the following: And linked to a picture of the three products above.