This is really a post to ask you to decide to donate £5 tonight, by texting HEART to 70060 so that WorldVision can keep on with their work to try and make Halloween a night where all children can have fun and laughter and treats. In too many places in the world, October 31st is […]
Gratitude. #SaveSyriasChildren
One of the most powerful lessons since Freddie’s death is that of gratitude. Counting my blessings. I learned it, not from the people who told me to be grateful for the children I still had alive and well, not from the people who told me to be glad I could have another child and not […]
The Big Day for Winesi #SeeTheMiracle
If you read my post for Sightsavers last week you may know that today is the big day for Winesi, who will get his cataracts removed during a £30, 20 minute operation that will give him back his sight. He currently cannot work, has never seen his youngest grandchild and in a few months, the […]
Blogging for Sightsavers #SeeTheMiracle
Just short of 2 years ago I took Max for a day in Cambridge that would, in the words of my unemotional, stoical husband, change his life. Having been severely shortsighted since his early teens, with a prescription of -5.5, he had laser eye surgery. Within hours he could see better than he had seen […]
