Here we go! The brand new, all-singing, all-dancing fixed-price sale as part of our fundraiser efforts is now live. Complementing our charity auctions, the fixed-price sale is an effort to offer lower-priced items for sale and that way allow all budgets to participate in this fundraising effort. Before I give you an overview over the…
Amazing things have happened since yesterday. Remember I appealed for a few more bids to get across the 700 Euro threshold? Well, you delivered, we did and by 8.22pm when I last updated the progress via Twitter, we were at 701.50 Euro. As we have entered the last 24 hours of #2020DecemberFundRAiser , my wish…
Good morning. I just realised that we are more than half way through the auctions! One day and six hours to go on the magic items that are currently up for bidding over on eBay. The good news first: When I posted the first update yesterday, we were at 462.50 Euro and I expressed the…
Usually I reveal the shrines *before* I throw them into an auction, but this time it somehow fell by the wayside. So I am now catching up with this shrine that I made on the occasion of Uncle Vanya being released in the cinema at the end of October. I had a cunning plan that involved…
Good morning with a little, first update on the December FundRAiser. As soon as we kicked off yesterday afternoon with the eBay auctions, the first bids started coming in. A massive big thank you to all of you who have spread the word on your various platforms, and to those who have got the auctions…
It’s the 1st of December – that means: Fundraiser fun is starting today! Running for the next three days to conclude on Friday, 4th December, we are kicking off today with auctions over on eBay. A total of 18 individual auctions have been listed. More than I had thought – but with all those donations…
Yes, it’s happening again. The fun silliness never stops. During those long, empty lockdown days I amused myself with yet another iteration of the RAdvent Calendar. With three years under my belt, I felt this is an established “tradition”, so I had to come up with yet another fest of cheese and cheer. As in…
Today I did a bit of an Astrov. I donated two trees to a reforestation project. The reason: The huge ash tree in our garden, as well as another large ash tree in the yard of our mews, had to be felled. Both trees had the ash tree disease which is currently killing all ash…
Mr Armitage is arguing for a quiet, contemplative pre-Christmas. As we head into Thanksgiving and Christmas worrying about doing the right thing, I just want to pause and think about the hundreds of thousands of families who have lost loved ones in this particularly tragic year. Perhaps it’s ok to have a quiet simple period…
Last week I was thinking that Christmas this year is going to be quite different from the usual. An opportunity to do something different, including starting the preparations for it early – and enjoying it longer. Christmas baking, decorating the house with wreaths and vases of pine and fir, and lighting candles every evening. And…
