Walruses

The topic for this afternoon in the office has been what would you do if you found a walrus on your bed? Your answer would clearly depend on personal sensibilities and level of silliness. I initially thought of selling it on Gumtree which would be both amusing and earn a little cash, another clear option is tickling it or even getting some kind of animal rescue to come and collect it. This question brought many thoughts to my head including; how would one get a walrus up stairs, what would be the point and the inevitability of someone purchasing said walrus on gumtree/eBay and it then being put onto the 6'o clock news. It is somewhat disgruntling to think that this kind of silliness raises more awareness about issues than all of our work. The BBC magazine recently commented on the prevalence of people giving up/taking up a year of something (credit cards, sex, saying no, ethical living) to make a point. I did briefly consider giving up computers but then realised 90% of my job is based on using my computer. After having my mobile mown over (by a lawn mower -seriously) I realised how much of my life is reliant on technology. I'm not sure I would be willing to live without it. One of our colleagues has returned from Tanzania with some amazing tales of the impact we are having but everywhere he visited there was a request for more computers. Very excitingly Llyods Pharmacys have donated 700 PC's which will no doubt go some way to fufilling the requests however there is such a hunger for learning in Africa that there will always be more schools to send to.

Landfill

Well its been a brilliant start to the week, the weird and the wonderful continues to be the norm in the media team. I have come to the slightly concerning realisation that people actually read what is written here. No matter I will continue in the same vein any way.
Today's highlight has been calling the local waste management to try to find out if a statement I made for the front page is correct. Now for me the idea that once you throw something away it is not possible to go find it again was both clear and obvious. However, other elements in our team felt this could be erroneous. Thus Ida and I called around the local landfills, what fun for a Tuesday afternoon, we discovered that people who work at landfills are very straight talking and that there is no chance of getting something back once you've chucked it. One point Lowri.

Strawberry fields forever

by : Ida Gaye

A beautiful summer sunset, friends and family, and fresh picked strawberries led to a memorable evening for the C4A Crew. The event was hosted by Stonepitt Farm in Sevenoaks which turned out to be a perfect setting for chillin’ out; and chill out we did! Once we arrived we were given baskets for strawberry and raspberry picking. For some of us this was a first-time experience, and therefore, some thought the bigger the strawberry the sweeter it will taste. This belief caused the strawberry picking to take longer than normal for some (not naming names: Avril Mhunduru).
When our baskets were full, we sat down for a picnic that was (if I do say so myself) delicious and full of variety (Thanks George ), and as the sun came down over the Kentish countryside we were graced by the charming sound of Dan Clews in concert (http://www.danclews.co.uk/). We also got to see our very own Martin Clews jam on the guitar, and his compadre the ‘Coconut Man from Goa’ singing songs that gave us joy and the desire to travel to GoaJ All in all...it was a great time and we’ve got the pictures to prove it!
Until next time...