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I went for a walk with my friends little boy who we commonly know as Pobbins yesterday. We weren’t expecting to be enveloped in the crowds of Southampton’s Sikh community who were celebrating Vaisakhi. An ancient northern Indian harvest festival … Continue reading
Street children in Cambodia are some of the most vulnerable young people alive. Today, April 12th, is a day when the organisation International Day for Street Children give children like this a voice. They deserve more attention, more food, more comfort and more love.
Give them a hand.
‘Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.’ Kurt Vonnegut
To celebrate black history month, organised in Southampton in part by my good friend Don Jon manager of reggae band Ebony Rockers and race relations consultant, an exhibition of photographs (including some of mine) will be featured until end November at The Soul Cellar Southampton. Go see it or if you can’t? All of the fantastic photographers featured can be found at the wonderful www.johnnytoaster.co.uk
(Nice styling Toaster!)
Sorry dear blog, it’s been too long, I got lost in the fields of the ‘shire there a while, come see…
Blissfields 2011
Ropewalk Community Garden is one of those little jewels hiding away in the centre of an urban concrete sprawl that you just never knew existed. Back in the cold early month of March I popped down on a drizzly Sunday morning to help with the weaving of a willow arch for the children in the area to play under.
With the guidance of ‘The Willow Man’ the local community; all ages including grandmothers, fathers and their children came together to bend, weave and tie the living willow into an arched tunnel for the children to run through, hide in and marvel at over the years to come. A wonderful day that taught children to tie knots, how something dead can grow and how working together brings many laughs and new friendships. Community work at its best, muddy!
