Let’s Not Waste This Christmas !!! screams Baglady
Oh wow I’m going insane. Why did I start this? Why did I promise to write 3 blogs a week, till June 21st, 2011 – maybe forever?
Well, obvious, Baglady. World needs saving. Urgent. Just DO it. [She does go on…]
The blogs will be brief, and all about living ASAP – who what how where when and why. THIS is Northern Ireland! and we are speaking to the world! Listen up world. Eist!
Baglady namedrop:
I shall now drop just a few names out of the millions of wonderful people who I know/trust/hope are working with the rest of us, to save it. Some famous people! some very famous, and lots lots more who you may not have met, yet. Just wait! till you meet them.
The names below are just a few, NOT in order of importance [as we are all = = =] And of course, if YOUR name’s missing and you want on the list, get in touch via the, er usual channels.
Christine Gent, Brighton, England: Baglady sleeps in bliss in her Fair Trade cotton duvet cover. Thanks to you and all your mob Christine……send us a pik……??
Roy Beggs MLA, UUP: our 19th elected Northern Ireland politician to Pledge ASAP and give some darn good reasons for doing so…… BL met him at… … Silverstream Primary School, Greenisland, 1st NI school to totally Pledge ASAP – kids, teachers, kitchen staff, secretary, caretaker, even PARENTS!!…… Rosemary Morrow, Australia’s brilliant permaculturist. See Gary Caganoff’s brilliant film Garden at the End of the World about Rosemary’s trip to Afghanistan. Moving, inspiring….
David Smith:: BL met David after NI storyteller Liz Weir gave me a copy of his amazing book: If the World Were a Village…..
…Bairbre de Brun, MEP: when Bairbre gets back from Cancun we’re going to meet in West Belfast – find out what the heck’s going on……
Stephen Ralph and his ace mum, Helena, who are getting Baglady’s amazing play: ASAP the GLObal Soap, up and running, with 4 schools in bonnie Scotland.
Karen Cannard, Bury St Edmunds and new friends in British Mummy Bloggers – working with me to get KIDS Pledge ASAP out to the world…….
Naomi Long MP….
Michael Meacher MP…..
James Orr Head of FoE NI……
Gary McFarlane……
Mark Smith who’s pledged to walk uphill……
My Dad, Mr Dr Prof Bill Laird, who’s 92, delivered about 12000 NI babies in his time and has had to watch the NHS collapse. He’s in Antrim Area Hospital as I write. Take good care of him all you great nurses, doctors, cleaners and, um, administrators……
next blog: some fun things to do so as not to waste Christmas – plus – Namedrop 2…!!!
Way to go bag lady! I love the ASAP pledge!