A lifestyle blog
Supporting is something that I think we can all do more of, either at home, or as part of a larger community. When I decided this year to really focus more on the four tenets I want to be known for supporting was definitely one of them.
This category will be where posts of support to others will live. It will feature people or causes I am supporting directly, discuss ways people can support their own passions, or I will share stories of support others have received.
Knowing what we do now about Comic Relief we know that they like to round things off properly. There is a cycle to how they work, both on a small level with maybe money being loaned to a person using a project and paid back to help others, to a bigger scale with telling fund raisers where the money goes. Or maybe with training via a project so that
This is it then. The announcement of Secret Thing part II. And by getting to this point you have already seen the picture above and know what we have planned. Well actually we don’t have it planned we just know we want to do it and we can’t do that without you. We have no idea what date we will start on, the exact route, how many will be involved.
When I was asked earlier this week if I would like to interview Kirstie Allsop and find out a bit more about her recent trip to Tanzania with Comic Relief, I leapt at the chance. Having worked in the property industry for 12 years I am a huge fan of hers and love her “no nonsense” approach to life. But this chat wasn’t about her passion for property, or mine,
It’s back, Baby. Comic Relief was this year and that means one thing. Sport Relief is next. And I am thrilled that Team Honk have been asked by Comic Relief to help support and promote the events they have planned. And let me tell you, they are some plans. And already there are bags of excitement, BAGS. Weeeeelllll you know that the award-winning, fun-raising phenomenon commonly known as TEAM HONK
Funny old thing souvenirs from holidays. I have many. From pebbles taken off a beach on our honeymoon, to fridge magnets from our weekend in Dublin to the thousands of photographs that fill up our stand alone storage disk. All of them are souvenirs of trips we have taken in the past. Mementos with which to remember the trip. My whistle stop forty eight hours in Ghana in February didn’t
When you upgrade your mobile phone because a new one has come out, what happens to the old one? What happens when you decide your PC is running slowly, the local computer shop has a sale and you can’t resist buying a new one? You dispose of the old one and move on. You throw away your old computer or phone and don’t think twice. As I do. Or rather
Briefs have played a big part of the #TeamHonk story this year, but I don’t mean that. It just feels like there should be a Comic Relief de brief now it is over for 2013. As Mr B said, or rather sang in his best Hot Chocolate voice “It started with a Tweet….” and it did. A Tweet to ask about bloggers being involved, in what I thought at the
Our first contact with Comic Relief was always about raising money for them. And getting bloggers to come together to do the same. But when my fellow Team Honk members suggested Snowdon, well I just knew I wasn’t doing that. I knew I couldn’t. I am not fit and doing something like that as part of a group was a disaster waiting to happen. Half way up Snowdon was not
Team Honk’s engagement with Comic Relief started off as firmly being about fund raising. That was what I had in mind when I contacted Emma Freud about getting bloggers on board. And it was that in mind that Annie and I went to visit them in December. Forty eight hours for three of us in Ghana came about as an off shoot of that. An amazing off shoot. A life
Since coming back from Ghana it has all been about fund raising for Comic Relief. The first of the fund raisers being an epic challenge to climb Snowdon (not by me. I was Chief Clipboard holder at the bottom with all the next of kin numbers). At 4pm on Saturday after seven hours in glorious sunshine (but scrabbling over snow) a small celebration took place.
No, I don’t mean that sense of “ahhhhh” as the first mouthful of wine hits your tongue at the end of a long week. I mean Wine Relief from Comic Relief. There seems to be nothing that Comic Relief don’t have a paw in (by the way, have you heard the speaking clock? Dial it from your landline, 10p goes to Comic Relief). And Wine Relief is just a brilliant
Yep, in earnest. With the toughest challenge first. On Friday a group of us are all meeting up at the foot of Snowdon and then this time next week will be climbing it. Why? In aid of Comic Relief of course. What’s funny about that you might think? After all, Comic Relief is all about doing something funny for money. Well how about doing it with pants OVER the top