New Year, same old….

Yes, I’m back. Sorry I haven’t posted in a month, winter makes me depressed. Israel also makes me depressed. I’m sure I have nothing to contribute to any Gaza debate beyond the same outrage everyone else is expressing (and also the cheerless footnote that the crisis is even starting to ruin Obama for us) except [...]

Things from the Manchester Oxfam minutes

Kept meaning to put this up – this is from the event at the Town Hall on the 16th October, where all the knitters who contributed to the blanket met up for a launch event to celebrate their hard work. There was also a film documenting the process of creating the blanket which (lest ye [...]

Rather late in the day…

…nevertheless it is still just about Blog Action Day, which I found out about via Oxfam, and they would like people to blog about poverty.
I had a think about which aspect of poverty to talk about, and decided that, although child poverty in the UK is probably on my mind more often, the issue of climate poverty [...]

Go go blanket launch!

You know that blanket I keep on about, with hundreds of Manchester people knitting  woollen squares for Oxfam’s giant petition for mothers’ right to health? You know how I also keep saying it’s going to be exhibited in Manchester? Well, the launch of the exhibition is on Thursday 16th October 2008 at 7:00pm in Manchester Town Hall, Committe [...]

I read the news today, oh boy

Couple of my friends from Manchester Campaignsville in the MEN today: first Derin, promoting Oxfam’s Massive Blanket Tour (I can’t seem to find a link to this, the MEN website giving precedence to pictures of some half-naked rich twat), which will by the way be a fringe event in itself at Labour Conference, at Beluga [...]

Knitters on TV! (…ish)

While trying to help sort out the next stage of the Massive Oxfam Blanket Adventure, I came across this! The video was filmed at the Stitch & Creative Crafts Show at Manchester Central on Sunday. I was only there for a couple of hours but it really was inspirational to see how many people wanted [...]

This weekend I will be going to…

…well, possibly Walsall, since my old schoolfriend Rachel is getting married. (The ‘possibly’ is because she only invited me five days ago. Over Facebook. But that’s probably a whole other blog.) But I will also definitely be going to the Exodus Festival, a celebration of Manchester’s refugee communities – I’d never heard about this before [...]