The Gallery — Boys

Stands to reason doesnt it that as last week the theme for the Gallery was girls, that this week it would be boys. So I have picked a pic of boys that I just love. Well actually two pics. I can’t choose

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My fund raising challenge for Comic Relief

In yesterday’s post about the big Team Honk Challenge announcement I mentioned that there was another way to get involved with fund raising for Comic Relief and that I was doing something of my own. Yes, in a moment of madness (there must have been wine involved) I suggested that as Red Nose Day is celebrating 25 years I would cycle 25 miles as it was also 25 years since

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Vaccine Project — Accra

I tried to shoot some video whilst at the Vaccine Clinic in Accra with #TeamHonk to explain a little bit more about what was going on.   Suffice to say my video skills have a long way to go but I hope it gives you a feel for it!

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Ranty Friday. Twitter and Jonathan Ross

If I had started my blog in 2008 then I would have been ranting about this back then.   How stupid Twitter was.  How pointless.   How Jonathan Ross had ignored me and therefore Twitter was useless.   How I was kicking the internet and walking off in a strop. I joined Twitter on January 6th, 2009.   So pretty much four years ago.   I joined because people seemed to be talking about it,

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I have a football confession

  Remember how last week I blogged about my hatred of football?  (Remember when whatshis face booted that ball boy who he thought was time wasting?)  Well I have a confession to make about football.   I think I have changed my mind.   I think I love football now.

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Ten Pounds and how it really helps mental health in Accra

  Ten quid.  It’s not much, is it?   I can spend that on a couple of books in Smiths when I am bored at Waterloo.   Or on a new T shirt when I am out shopping.   Or maybe when I am feeling lazy and grab a sandwich at 3pm because I didn’t do lunch at home. Today we saw first hand, up close and personal just what

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Niki’s Balms — a review

Niki’s Balms   There is a great thing on Twitter where you suggest people that you follow to your other followers who may not have heard of them.  It’s called Follow Friday or #ffs (when I was wet behind the ears I thought that stood for For F*** Sake and was a list of the people that had annoyed you that week) I am digressing again.   It was through a

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