Halloween is a disturbing time, the nights start closing in, the weather generally gets rather cold, grim and depressing, and on one day in particular all things beastly and gruesome happen. This was one of those days, save for an uplifting occurrence that made the day less horrid. It was a dreary Monday morning, well, most Mondays are dreary, but this one was more so due the combination of a cold, and the effects of a particularly heavy weekend on the juice. Somehow I managed to drag myself to work, feeling like something that would not be out of place … Read more »
Random Musings
Hair Gone! Hair Gone!
Plonked in Random Musings Tagged bald, Comic Relief, GeekNight, Hair Off Day, Red Nose Day, shave
A few days have passed since Hair Off Day, and I can safely say that the whole experience has been a fantastic success. Considering that I’m just a guy (a curious guy admittedly), and my hair wasn’t particularly that long, getting my hair shaved off generated a surprisingly large amount of interest. Maybe it was part credit to the Red Nose Day website and it’s connections with Twitter and Facebook, using today’s ways of social networking to generate a buzz and simplicity of donating, which I think was really effective. Or maybe it was simply that all my friends, family, … Read more »
Comic Relief – Hair Gone Day
Plonked in Random Musings Tagged Comic Relief, hair, ridiculous, shave
For the past two Sport Reliefs I’ve run alongside lots of people to raise money for the charity, and fun it has been. Last year, after I ran 3 miles in Christchurch Park in Ipswich, I wondered if there would be anything interesting I could do for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day, the bi-annual event that alternates with it’s sporty counterpart.. Comic Relief is a UK charity created by Richard Curtis and Alexander Mendis in 1985, that helps people in Africa and in Britain, and has raised over £650 million since it began. The flagship of the charity is Red … Read more »
