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Old school kindness
Last week I went to my tenth Tearfund UK project to do a final day of filming for the epic Ten Keys Project. We were in Ilford, and we interviewed a man from the council. I asked him to jot down his...
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A handful of hope
This post is bringing you a little round-up of the things that have inspired me this past week, the things that reassure me that there is good in the world still. I’m about to head off to Burkina Faso...
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2012: the year that was
It seems to be normal in the world of blogging to round up an old year with your favourite posts from the past year. I know I’m coming to the party late. Looking back on the year, and the blogs I have...
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On being a hopelessly amateur helper
It’s been 3 days since I cam be back from Liberia but I am still re-acclimatising to the blustering wind and rain sweeping through the UK. Much as I love my home, I so often feel like I am in a...
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Eating Green
Yes, drum roll, it’s another instalment of… Another blog about how we are attempting to live in a collaborative, ethical, earth-friendly kind of a way, minimising our damage of the planet and the waste...
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Twenty films about fighting poverty in the UK
Over the past year I’ve been carrying out a project to make 20 films – yes 20 – about fighting poverty here in the UK. The scale of the task was a little crazy given that I work part-time and also...
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Winter Rest for the Soul
January and February can be bleak old months. It’s cold and grey and there’s no Christmas to look forward to (“Always winter but never Christmas” – it’s like we’re in Narnia before Aslan returns)....
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How to meet the neighbours
On Saturday night we had a brilliant evening round at our Polish neighbours’ flat – we ate great food, drank some extraordinary Hungarian wine, talked about travel, love, family and faith. Andy...
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Positive vandalism
Yesterday we vandalised a local bus stop. I’m not entirely sure it was legal, but I can’t imagine anyone will be that bothered by removing the bluetak. I wasn’t acting alone. There were four children...
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The divided city
Yesterday I spent the day in Newcastle (well, six hours of it was on a train) with The Ruby Dolls where we passed a sublime afternoon in a gorgeous country house hotel, with high tea and open fires and...
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To the left, to the left (on politics)
It might not seem like the most likely moment to talk about politics, when my natural instincts are all driving me to dig a big deep hole somewhere and hide away, all mammal-like, to give birth in...
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Our Big Lunch
Yes, it’s another foray into the world-beyond-the-baby, in which I catch you up with some local community happenings. This last week, we finally got organised enough to put on a BIG LUNCH (if you don’t...
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Things I start to realise when I leave the city
Tatton Park This week I had the treat of getting out of London to the countryside. I went to spend a few hours with a friend who has been coaching me, on and off, for the past six years (one of the...
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Going on holiday with other people (and their children)
We’re just back from two weeks of holiday (that’s the excuse for the latest radio silence) and I have two blogs for you about our adventures. The second one will cover our second week when it was just...
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And then there were 3: Cornish holiday part 2
Welcome to the second instalment of our holiday saga, featuring a reduced cast and much less sunny weather. But first, I thought I’d reflect on holidaying in the UK vs going abroad. There are obvious...
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Summer in the foothills of parenting
I’ve been waiting for a moment of divine inspiration and philosophical insight to begin writing but it has finally dawned on me that it could be a long wait. So here is another missive from the...
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