I’m feeling all Sir Bob Geldof this week.
For those that need a nudge of a reminder – Bob Geldof did this thing called Band Aid where loads of bands got together to raise money for food, for Africa. It was in 1984 and the song called “Do They Know It’s Christmas” got to Number One everywhere, and raised $150,000,000 worldwide for the Ethiopia famine (that’s $440,000,000 in today’s money). It was incredible to witness and just as incredible to remember it today. It actually brought a little tear to my eye, watching the YouTube…
You might remember me jesting in June that I was disappointed that only 11 African countries had read this blog. I guess it’s quite low on your list of priorities when, in some cases you’re in the middle of a civil war, struggling to feed your family, and water is horribly scarce. But surprisingly, people in Algeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Egypt have read the blog and keep coming back to read further updates. What is even more surprising is new people from new countries have tuned in since June. These being Benin, Sudan, Tanzania, Namibia, Ghana, Cape Verde, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso. Incredibly, they keep coming back every time there is a blog update.
It’s pretty blooming mind-blowing! But thank-you, people from Africa. I feel incredibly blessed to have you tuning in. When I started this blog I thought that the only people who would read it would be my gran and her friend, who she plays Scrabble with, on a Thursday afternoon.
Today we started at the underpass and worked northwards snipping back the bramble and picking up the litter. We lost Reece somehow, which is quite a hard thing to do on a straight path. We will work out what happened next week.
We had our litter-picking squad…
And it looks lovely on both the southern bit and the northern bit, both a mile out and a mile back, from the centre, so a lot of ground travelled. Well done, kids.
Kieran took charge of the coffee break today and did a sterling job.
We also got our geocaching trail back at 100%. We have almost 2,000 finds so it is getting used.
I have changed next week’s workday to re-setting the refurbished picnic bench in the ground (this is how is should look).
It looks like the mob of angry squirrels have tried to dig it up and move it, but realising that it weighs a ton, just left it skewed and off-centre.
We have 104 countries tuning in to read the blog, plus the “thing” from outer space making it 105 in total.
Pretty humbled at this point.
Until next week!
Cawston Greenway 
I think Band Aid did a great job, raising awareness and money for people in Africa afflicted by famine. I also think it’s depressing that famines continue to occur, no matter where. There is enough food on this earth to feed everyone and if we really set our minds to solving the distribution problem, nobody would have to starve in the 21st century.
100% agree 🙂
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Hello Paul
Thank you for reminding me about Band Aid. As you may have noticed from my blog, I am not only a South African, but still living in my beautiful country.
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Congratulations on your new level of awareness. Pulling a little Bob Geldof yourself with these posts. That’s something to be proud of!
Yes, I am keen to learn about the different cultures and lifestyles in far away places 🙂
Beautiful post
Thank you. Much to learn 🙂
Nice post
Good read. Those benches always weigh a ton.
Greetings from Somalia. Am from Kenya, but relocated to the war torn Somalia to contribute to the efforts of health worker shortages
And yeah, I also know that the Christmas song hits the charts every end year. Was it Mariah Carey who sang it?
And thanks for following my blog, really.
Hi, Great blog. Well done on your good work. I think various artists have sung it over the years 😀
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Nicely written. Interesting to learn about the Band Aid fund raising.
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