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In a few weeks, the blog celebrates a year of existence. So I thought of telling you more about it and about the new challenge that I am launching. Continue reading “My hashtag challenge”
My hashtag challenge
Category: #BRIGHTENUPLONDON
A Suspended Christmas
featuring SELFISH MOTHER and Save the Children
If you do not live in the United Kingdom, then grab a seat! This post requires an explanation.
A Christmas jumper is ‘a top pulled over the head to cover the torso, themed with a Christmas or winter-style design.’ Save the Children UK encourage people to wear a Christmas jumper on a specific day in December (it’s the 14th this year) and raise money for the charity. Most people wear Christmas jumpers outside of that one day, during Advent and Christmas.
Five Christmas stories
I was asked, a few days ago, what was the best Christmas present I had ever received.
The coat
featuring WRAP UP LONDON
I arrived in Britain in the summer, fifteen years ago.
I had with me one photo album, one diary, pens, a couple of books, a Walkman (do you remember those?), my university diploma and a very small wardrobe of mainly tops and bottoms. The only pair of shoes I had thought of taking was on me and it lasted a whole year. I still retain wonderful memories – my best ever shoes!
A night and day at the A&E
Or an ode to every single hero, sung or unsung, of the NHS.
I am one of those annoying people who never breaks a leg, a hand or a finger; never has a cold, or if they do, they just make it go away; and never, I mean, NEVER, takes medication.
The nectarine
featuring GIVE A GIGGLE
Helvetica and Times New Roman walk into a bar. “Get out of here!” shouts the bartender. “We don’t serve your type.”
This is my poor attempt at reproducing the amazing work of the charity I am featuring today.
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#ACCOUNTS THAT COUNT
NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN!
You have heard me more than once speak about how important it is to spread a positive message and to read inspiring, rather than anxiety-inducing writing.
Time to put my money where my heart is, well, more like, my writing where my heart is. So here it is. Continue reading “#ACCOUNTS THAT COUNT”
The story behind the image
featuring ACCUMULATE
‘As part of the course, we also visit exhibitions.
I prefer to be hands-on and take pictures, and yet I really enjoyed walking around the galleries and reading the photographers’ biographies as well as the story behind each image. I found myself going home to research some of the artists in the gallery, their photographic style and their own personal story. I could feel passion for photography coming back to me.
On Lunchboxes
featuring GOOD FOOD MATTERS
I was introduced to the world of packed lunches the day my middle child started nursery.
After a year of daily lunchbox packing, there followed a blissful break when my 2 older children were in ‘infants’ – that part of schooling when you benefit from free meals. My 3rd child, a baby, finally rejoiced some undivided attention and maybe a few more elaborate meals.
September last year I found myself back on the lunchbox wagon. Continue reading “On Lunchboxes”
On Loneliness
featuring BRIGHTEN UP LONDON
… and a fish tank.
This story was kindly told by *Andrew.
‘One thing that did happen, I once inherited a guy, who wasn’t very well, he got Parkinson’s. His family lived far, so I used to pop up and chat with him in the evenings. And then… he passed away.