Cybher: I wish
I wish we didn’t need to discuss the word feminism and whether we need to reclaim it. I wish I’d managed to get my hands on some of those cupcakes. I wish I could work out who I met and who I didn’t...
View ArticleLet’s talk about drought.
There’s been a huge amount of talk in our media recently about drought and hosepipe bans and so on. And it’s true that it’s been very dry, particularly in East Anglia over the last couple of years....
View ArticleI’m worried #ShareNiger won’t be enough.
I’m following the story on twitter. Sponsoring a child in Niger. Quite frankly I’m pestering ppl in an attempt to spread the word – tonight I sent it to two of the ppl who run #SMGirlfriends on...
View ArticleI’m struggling for words today.
I’ve been reading the #ShareNiger stream and blogposts, and it’s getting me down. So many ppl with so little, and we have so much. I went shopping today, filled my trolley for £67 with food that we’ll...
View ArticleMeasuring humanity.
When times are easy, it’s easy to be generous. If you’ve got a lot, it’s not hard to give a little, and there aren’t so many ppl wanting stuff anyway. But times aren’t easy just now. They are hard....
View ArticleJust a basket.
Monday last week was a tough day, our second full day at Kentwell Hall. I got up in the morning when tigerboy woke me around six I think, and had pottered about getting organised. (I say pottered. It’s...
View ArticleChildhood, captured or lost.
Childhood is: Long afternoons on the beach. Icecream dropping down your fingers. Damming a stream, paddling on the moors. Weeks in tents, books at bedtime. Endless games, never ending dreams. Tears...
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