Only 2 days until we leave for Nepal!
Well, 4 of us. Joanna and I leave Edinburgh just before 2:30 on Monday and then meet up with Chuli and Suzi in Heathrow before flying out, we’ll then meet John and Peter out there.
It’s all getting very real and very exciting! I feel a bit like a [...]
As I said in my previous post, Linda and I went to see ‘The Blind Side‘ last night at the cinema. It was a really good film, obviously they couldn’t fit all the detail the book contains into a 2 hour film, bu they managed to stay fairly faithful to the real events, and the [...]
Tonight Linda and I are going to see a new movie thats just come out called ‘The Blind Side‘. I’m quite excited about it. I first read the bookof the same name about 18 months ago. The book is fantastic. It covers more than the film does. the film focuses only on Michael Oher whereas [...]
When I’m in my office working, I love having music playing – always my itunes collection on shuffle. Today the song “On my Bones” came on, by an artist called Kendall Payne. As it was playing the words struck me, how many of us feel that life batters us, that life wears us out? How [...]
People amaze me, they really do.
There’s been a tragedy in Haiti. How have you responded? Have you pledged some sort of donation? Gone out to help? Said ‘thats a real shame’ and then thought nothing more? another response?
I’m a member of a photography forum where Haiti was mentioned. Some of the responses shocked me. One [...]
I know the Israel / Palestine debate is a tricky beast, but when I read this report I was truly disgusted:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7960071.stm
So, my earlier post about Gaza, alongside some twitter posts I made drew the attention of a BBC Journalist looking for people to be involved in a live radio debate tonight. I only spoke on it for about a minute, but the show as a whole made for interesting listening. It lasts about 50 minutes, [...]
So, unless you’ve been living in the wilderness or under a rock you’ll have heard what’s going on in Gaza.For that reason, I feel no need to go into details of what’s happened, except to register my outrage and shock!
How can you justify in any way the killing of so many civilians? “We want to [...]