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A Week of Divesting: Media
Image by dearsomeone @ Flickr I read Dave Eggers’ book They Shall Know Our Velocity a few months back. In it, one of the main characters talks about the ‘slow suffocation of accumulation’ and seeks to...
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NOT Friday Fun
I had intended, as per my proposal in The new blog order to post another batch of some humorous, light-hearted stuff today. But I don’t feel like it. Why? It would seem a little inappropriate given the...
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Towards a fitter Doug.
10 kilometers doesn’t sound like much. It’s not. But it’s twice the distance I usually run… I’m going to be running the Great North 10k in Sunderland on 18 July 2010. It’s the first step on a planned...
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We need to open our eyes to systemic injustice.
As a nation England is pretty good at raising money for things it deems worthwhile. So donating time and money in aid of people affected by the tsunami that hit islands in the Pacific ocean in 2004 or...
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UPDATE: #LettingGrow is now over (explanation here) Thanks for the donations! TL;DR version: I’m raising money for cancer research in 2013. I’ve shaved my head and beard and won’t be cutting either...
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Belshaw beard blooms. (#LettingGrow update)
UPDATE: #LettingGrow is now over (explanation here) Thanks for the donations! “The more it grows, tiddly pom, the more it goes, tiddly pom, on growing.” (with apologies to Winnie the Pooh) Two months...
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Update: I’ve heard back from 90% of the people who donated to #LettingGrow, all of whom have said they don’t want me to ask Cancer Research to return their donations. Given how overwhelming the...
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