Typecast

It doesn't feel like 25 years since the first  Red Nose Day , does it? If you've been following any of my social media channels ( Twitter ,  Facebook ,  Google Plus ) you will have seen me sharing updates from a group of blogging friends who have been reporting live from Ghana.  Tanya, Annie and Penny have shadowing Davina McCall, Jonathan Ross and the amazing Comic Relief team seeing how donations have been used.   Hi Nickie These children are all in the nursery attached to the Virtuous Women's Bakery.  Essentially the African Women's Fund donated money to the bakery to buy ovens so they could expand.  The women themselves set up the nursery to ensure their children are safe and off the streets when they are at work. T I was sent this digital postcard from Tanya after she visited the  Virtuous Women's Bakery  on Monday.  I love everything about this project and Tanya explains more  on her blog .  Please visi...

I was very sad today when I read about #twitrelief.  Basically, you can bid on eBay for a celebrity to follow you on Twitter and, for the highest bidder, they will become a "friend with benefits" for a short time.  They will follow you, retweet you and mention you for a whole 90 days.  All proceeds to Comic Relief , naturally (yes, I've included the Comic Relief links because I'm nice like that.  If you want to bid that's entirely up to you.). Whoopie-fucking-do! I think I may have turned into the "Citizen Smith" of Twitter for half an hour - Power to the Tweeters or something -  because, for me, this actually take away the ethos behind twitter; the conversation and marketing platform that it has become.