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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Category: INSPIRATION
#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”
On love, weddings and the colour yellow [PART 1]
Our kitchen was yellow. It was just the two of us. One chair, we shared.
He asked me to marry him. Plain and simple. ‘I think it might be a good idea.’ No ceremony to the moment. No build up. No expectation. Continue reading “On love, weddings and the colour yellow [PART 1]”
On being task-oriented
featuring EVOLVE WORK AND LEARNING
‘The first time I saw a city bus I was seventeen years old.
I had met him on messenger. People still ask me how I had the patience. I am a patient person, when I know it is worth it in the end. Task-oriented, that is what they call me.
Cold coffee and walnut cake… and world sanitation
featuring GATHER, on world sanitation
If you asked my husband the names of my Transylvanian cousins, aunts and uncles, he would struggle to give you the right answer. He would be much better able to tell you which household owned a TV, who had the first refrigerator, the first toilet, or who was the first to have electricity installed.
Continue reading “Cold coffee and walnut cake… and world sanitation”
The man who takes pictures in the sea
featuring PAVILIONS addiction recovery
‘It has been over 3 months now since I last drank alcohol and the longest it has ever been since I was 21. I never want it in my life.’
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.
Two of a perfect pair
~featuring Celia Pym
Close your eyes. Imagine a set of twins. One is fair-haired, the other one dark. One cheeky, one serious.
One, an artist. The other, master of stick drawings.
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 the artist
featuring The Green Ribbon Campaign
* This is Jimmy’s story. A story of mental illness, stigma, ambitions and finding peace*
‘So I’m supposed to tell you my story, no guidelines… That’s going to be hard! I do not know where to start.
My father passed away when I was ten years old and I was brought up by my mum and my two older sisters. They moved out of home and I went into boarding school for a while. My father had been my best friend. Continue reading “On the artist”