This is an old photo, but it’s one I love.
Mother’s Day is now twice as special as it used to be. I’m the daughter of one of these people, and the mother of the other. What a wonderful thing that is.
Wishing a Happy Mothering Sunday to those of you celebrating with family today, and sending much love to those of you who are missing a loved one.
I am posting three photos instead of one this week, because I’m so happy that spring has finally arrived. The sun has been shining, my windows have been flung open, and my wee house is filled up with fresh air and birdsong. That’s definitely worth celebrating.
Spring means beautiful flowers.
Before I became DorkyMum, I worked full time as a climate change campaigner. It was a brilliant job – especially for a recent graduate – as it required me to develop so many different skills. I had to do a bit of fundraising, a bit of media work, some political lobbying, supporting volunteers, organising events and – of course – lots of pretty dull admin stuff too.
Towards the end of my three years there, I started to become a bit disheartened with the work. It felt like the results we were getting from our campaigns were in no way equal to the effort we were all putting in. It was so frustrating to be working full time on something and only ever celebrating the smallest of victories. With all the will in the world, we could organise a hundred postcard campaigns or lobbies of parliament, and we would never achieve our aim of halting human induced climate change.
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I was so chuffed to see my old buddies Ben and Jerry in the news this week, supporting the equal marriage campaign. They have partnered with Stonewall to rename their Oh My Apple Pie flavour Apple-y Ever After. A Ben and Jerry’s Facebook app invites you to ‘marry’ someone of the same sex, and they’ve got a template letter up online for emailing your MP in support of same sex marriage.
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