The Bank holiday turned out to be a glorious weekend: good because I had a lot of mouths to feed. We had friends various over for most of the weekend so I needed to make our food shop go a long way. The Bank Holiday also heralded the start of a new, cheaper, Morrisons. They’ve cut the prices on over a thousand of your favourite products: these are new every day low prices on the things you buy every week. Although we’re cutting prices, … [Read more...]
Mother’s Day without a mother
As Mother's Day approaches, I want to tell you the story of Mother's Day without a mother, and a charity that is doing so much to help children of our serving Armed Forces. Mark Every, 42, lives in Marham, North Norfolk, with his two-year-old son Joseph. He lost his wife Joanna to cancer six months ago. Joanna and Mark met while they were both serving in the Royal Air Force at Marham, North Norfolk, in 2002. She was 21 years old and … [Read more...]
My Honkopoly Day
It's always frustrating when you put so long into the planning of a fundraising event, promoting, recruiting and raising money for a cause, and then as the date approaches you find that you have unpredicted hurdles to jump. Like a Tube Strike. Vanessa, Sarah and Sophie spend hundreds of woman-hours planning the Honkopoly route, Vanessa's Husband produced staggering graphics work- flyers, the graphics we all used, and the most amazing … [Read more...]
Fairtrade Banana Date Flapjacks
Fairtrade Fortnight is imminent: Monday 24 February and Sunday 9 March 2014 and this year there is special emphasis on the banana, Britain's Favourite Fruit: we eat over 5 billion a year. But the cost of bananas have been dropping steadily and this has a significant effect on the welfare of the banana growers. "Fairtrade provides a vital safety net for banana farmers and workers, by paying a minimum price that aims to cover the costs of … [Read more...]
Have you heard of Honkopoly?
"This one time, on the Team Honk Relay..." In all likelihood this is a phrase that you will be hearing a lot in the future. The Holy Trinity of Annie, Tanya and Penny that brought us Postcards from Ghana, and climbing Snowdon with red pants on your head last year have joined forces with the evil genius that is Sports Relief with a plan so daring, so awesome, so utterly crazy that I had to be a part of it. Under the banner of Team … [Read more...]
Christmas Jumper Day Friday 13th December 2013
On Friday 13 December Save the Children is inviting everyone to make the world better with a sweater by wearing a Christmas Jumper and donating £1 to raise money for its life saving work with children the world over. Just wear your fabulous festive sweater on Christmas Jumper Day on 13 December and donate £1 to Save the Children at www.christmasjumperday.org. It's that easy. There's still time to get down to your local John Lewis … [Read more...]
Tesco Mum of the Year 2014 Shortlist
My Saturday nights are taken up with watching Strictly Come Dancing. LBG, Dimples and I curl under the blanket on the sofa to be dazzled and amazed by the calibre of the dancing and the spectacle of the show, lighting and costumes. The bit that I like least is knowing that someone will get voted off: everyone works so hard on their routine and puts such effort in. I would hate to have to chose between two such dancers every week. I cannot imagine … [Read more...]
