To Do:

VOTE No excuses. The polls are open from 7am until 10pm.  You don’t even need to take your polling card, just some ID. If you don’t want to vote for anyone then spoil your paper because they count those too. If you want to know how to vote then watch the video here. Voting is Read More …

Register to Vote! (last chance)

Tomorrow is your final chance to register to vote in the General Election. No registration = no vote.

one week to go – please sponsor David’s Marathon run

Next Sunday, 25 April, my step-son David will spend his 22nd birthday doing something for other people, running the 26 and a bit miles of the London Marathon. He is running in aid of Kidney Research UK and has to raise £1,500 to run.  At the moment he has 88% of his total. Please sponsor Read More …

solas 2010 update

JUST CONFIRMED – YVONNE LYON, JO MANGO, KITTY THE LION, MONICA QUEEN & THRUM, CALAMATEUR, BRIAN MCGLYNN, RORY BUTLER, SUPLEX THE KID and THE RUSSIAN CHOIR Music-lovers are going to be spoiled for choice at Solas! We’ve got rock, folk, gospel, jazz, blues, Americana, traditional Scots ballads, Gaelic waulking songs, post-rock, indie, Russian liturgical music Read More …

Addition by Adoption

Addition by Adoption: Kids, Causes & 140 Characters Love, laughter and lunacy in 140 characters. by Kevin D Hendricks A work-at-home dad turns to Twitter to share updates about kids, causes and life. It’s a curated selection of bizarre quotes, funny stories and temper tantrums. Woven between potty-training woes and breakfast time songs is a Read More …

Dave hits a grand

If you follow the blog then you’ll know that my step-son David is running the London Marathon on 25 April in aid of Kidney Research UK. If you’ve been following David’s blog then you’ll know that his training had been going well until a hamstring problem struck.  Well, after some massage, stretching and work in Read More …