Hello out there.
If you read this blog you are likely in Scotland. However, I'm currently in Canada. Today it was 26 degrees celcius, sunny and the tour of the Southern Okanagan wine region couldn't have been bettered. More of that later perhaps...
So first of all a big thanks goes out to Mark Hunter at Hunter Property Fund Management (www.hunterpropertyfundmanagement.co.uk) for his wonderful and generous donation of GBP200. That is just the sort of thing that is realy very helpful. Mark of course, is a scholar and a gentleman and a property investment manager of distinction...
Some of you will likely have heard of the inaugural Women's Informal. The cleverest among you will have realised that the acronym for the event, the Women's Informal Networking Event spells 'wine'. How's that for subliminal advertising. Anyway, the response has been terrific. We're *almost* to capacity for the 16th so if you are reading this blog and haven't RSVPed to me at erikka_23@hotmail.com, there might even have to be a WINE waiting list! It is shaping up to be a terrific night and thanks again to to Charlotte at the Radisson SAS on the Royal Mile for offering their generous support!
Cheers from the Sunny Okanagan
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007
Tuesday, 12 June 2007
And another!
Thank my lucky stars. Another large corporate donation of £1000 although this large Scottish PLC wants to remain anonymous...
Wednesday, 6 June 2007
The First Member!
I'm so thrilled - and I'd like to extend a big, warm, heartfelt thanks to Raymond O'Hare and Lynda Walker of Microsoft Scotland. They are the first members of the 1000 Metre High Club! They have pledged £1000 in my fundraising effort for breast cancer research and care in Scotland.
"We can do something here for you Erikka and this very good cause," said Raymond.
I couldn't have said it better myself!
"We can do something here for you Erikka and this very good cause," said Raymond.
I couldn't have said it better myself!
Sunday, 3 June 2007
Boobybirds united
Went to a lovely event last week hosted by Booby Bird extraordinaire, Anna St Clair. She's the boss of The Ceramic Experience, a franchise network of, I think, some 50-odd stores nationwide where people go to paint pottery. It's good fun too - don't knock it till you've tried it. Although whether I'll ever show anyone my cosmos blue and lime green ceramic CD holder is another thing altogether.
About eight of us Booby Birds got together to paint, talk fundraising, eat lovely nibbles and drink wine. Irene Grant was there. She's the head of HSBC Business Banking in Scotland and was one of the first to sign up. She's raised her £20,000 - good for her! I'm so jealous.
But for my own consolation, there were others, like Bernadette Murphy, who like me has also recently joined the jumpers. She's an estate agent in Hamilton (see her website http://www.justthinkpink.com/ ), and her energy and ethusiasm was infectious. She started out as an estate agent with Remax, but has gone out on her own. Another intriguing character I met there, also a new recruit to Booby Birds, was serial entrepreneur Angela Paterson. She recently set up an online jobs board for the Highlands called hijobs (www.hijobs.co.uk).
No-one I've met yet seems to be doing this becuase they have extra time to kill. Even the woman who has worked tirelessly for such a long time to get this show on the road, Tina Korup, is MD of her own corporate perfomance management consultancy. Although she did admit to us she's looking forward to going back to having only one full-time job when this is over.
But then it's probably not going to be over, as the hard slog we're putting in this year will likely spill over to the next. And the next year after that. In fact most of us fully expect to see Booby Birds become a permanent fixture in mobilising funds for breast cancer research and development in Scotland.
Long live Booby Birds.
About eight of us Booby Birds got together to paint, talk fundraising, eat lovely nibbles and drink wine. Irene Grant was there. She's the head of HSBC Business Banking in Scotland and was one of the first to sign up. She's raised her £20,000 - good for her! I'm so jealous.
But for my own consolation, there were others, like Bernadette Murphy, who like me has also recently joined the jumpers. She's an estate agent in Hamilton (see her website http://www.justthinkpink.com/ ), and her energy and ethusiasm was infectious. She started out as an estate agent with Remax, but has gone out on her own. Another intriguing character I met there, also a new recruit to Booby Birds, was serial entrepreneur Angela Paterson. She recently set up an online jobs board for the Highlands called hijobs (www.hijobs.co.uk).
No-one I've met yet seems to be doing this becuase they have extra time to kill. Even the woman who has worked tirelessly for such a long time to get this show on the road, Tina Korup, is MD of her own corporate perfomance management consultancy. Although she did admit to us she's looking forward to going back to having only one full-time job when this is over.
But then it's probably not going to be over, as the hard slog we're putting in this year will likely spill over to the next. And the next year after that. In fact most of us fully expect to see Booby Birds become a permanent fixture in mobilising funds for breast cancer research and development in Scotland.
Long live Booby Birds.
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