Back in April during a series of guest-posts for her website I was lucky enough to contribute my own string of sentences to Long Tall Ally’s Tales from the Scales. Al is an incredibly open and comical writer, currently writing her own book, she updates her website regularly and of this moment is sporting a column in this months Glamour Magazine. Check her out.
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Here is my contribution: I Can Handle It – first published 11 April 2010 -
Upon noticing that Ally had decided to take on some guest bloggers I had a dilemma. I really wanted to write something, as I am a huge fan of the very page that these words are displayed on, but I instantly thought – how can I compare?
Quick one today – take a look at this brilliant feature on PET, the Personal Energy Transportation Project. PET provide hand-cranked wheelchairs to some of the 20 million people in developing countries across the world unable to walk.
It’ll only take up five minutes of your time (if you discount thinking about how good it is for the rest of the day). Take a look.
As a side note, thank you all so much for the massive support and praise (and views!) for my previous article. I was overrun with kind comments through Twitter, Facebook, and of course this website itself. Posts like today’s video are a quick way of me passing on content I believe my readership will find enjoyable and interesting – but it really means a lot to receive such great recognition and feedback when I spend several days working on a piece.
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