Two Thousand and Great – Week 42 (part II)

Dear all

The promised second half of Monday’s email…

I think I can add artist to my CV now, as you may know, when I was completing the John & Yoko challenge I drew a number of pictures in Mr Lennon’s style. Somebody saw the gallery of images I placed on facebook and made me and incredibly generous offer for the pictures, so I sold them (with all money going to MacMillan obviously).

Does selling something you’ve created make you an artist? I have also offered to draw the person who bought the images, in the Lennon style to give her something unique as a thank you, all we just have to find a time for them to sit for me.

Other weird things I have discovered this week is you can’t kiss your dentist, it’s against GDC regulations. I guess this isn’t a problem for most people, as dental drills aren’t usually an erotic stimulus. That said my dentist is a beautiful red head and I really wanted to kiss her for the pucker up challenge. She rebuffed me but did say if there had been a red head dental nurse she’d have been fair game and would have organised it for me.

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I invited a few friends around yesterday with the idea of producing a few more dishes for the cookbook, unfortunately as I was leaving work I had a call from my housemate saying we’d blown the fuse for our lights and could I try and find one. We have an antiquated old fuse box in our building which requires very specific ceramic fuses which are strangely unobtainable in normal electrical retailers. After trawling around London for 45 minutes I gave up and headed for home, in the knowledge I had told people to arrive at mine for food and footie from 6:30 and it was now 6:45 and I was still at Tottenham Court Road.

Getting off the tube I grabbed the final two ingredients that I lacked and a huge sack of candles as I had to cook somehow. These weren’t for romantic lighting as suggested by some of the guests but a necessity.

As I was cooking in the dark I didn’t take photos of the food that I was preparing but I will remake them and log them for the new cookbook (especially as I now have feedback on the dishes) The lamb in olives was a big hit, the couscous stuffed roasted peppers need a touch of work, but the strawberry spring rolls are a winner. The promised banoffee pie didn’t happen as I managed to burn the condensed milk whilst I was preparing the biscuit base for it to go in so that recipe definitely needs attention.

Thanks for all the recipes that people keep sending in. One recipe that will not make it into the cookbook ‘The Atkins Salad’ think four different kinds of meat (Chicken, lamb, beef and pork – cooked in different methods and a tomato) I made it and ate it but… I don’t think anyone else should.

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Keep on challenging me, I’ll keep accepting.

Rob / Devani

Two Thousand and Great – Week 41

Dear all,

It was a weird week, from getting deep down and dirty with a mud pack to getting stood up when I planned to be in bed with someone for 24 hours…

Before I go on, I have to admit I’m not going to take up the place on the totem pole building weekend, I started to do the sums for the trip and it was going to cost me around £400 for the 2 day break  and I simply can’t afford it… for a similar amount I could probably fly to America and see real totem poles.

I will find another way of completing native american day which might follow this route a little closer http://www.mantoncork.com/toys3.htm I’m not sure how I’m going to find corks but I have a few ideas.

SimiIarly I  got stuck at work and couldn’t make my appointment at the beauty salon, so i did amud pack from Boots which seems to have gone ok. So at least I completed that strange day properly.

 

mud pack

 

 

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The end the week I was due to finish with the John & Yoko Challenge.  I hoped the John & Yoko challenge was going to really spark, to try and push it along, I put a lot of work several weeks / months, trying to source venues, press releases, websites etc…

Somehow, I was sold online for £300 but to my dismay, I found out the day before the challenge was due to take place that the winner of the auction could not get the time off work  and I had nobody to share the space at the Garrett… To tell the truth I started to crumble, I was exhausted and probably felt the lowest I have at any point this year, with the possible exception of when I walked around a graveyard in Bradninch for a couple of hours looking for a headstone which was in a cemetary a matter of meters away.

To me earning £300 for the charity was great, but to me that was only half of what I had set out to do, as with everything this year I want to complete the challenges set to me to the very best of my abilities.

As many of you will know I tried sending emails and texting / calling anyone who might be able to step / sleep in to help me complete the task.  Getting increasingly desperate I took a walk down Oxford Street seeking inspiration. It’s strange how little choice there is on london’s foremost shopping street, all the shops are faxsimilies of each other, Zara becomes Uniqlo, M&S = Debenhams, Selfridges = John Lewis,  Ann Summers = Harmony…

For those who don’t know Harmony it’s an attempt by pornographers to make the whole experience of buying erotica somehow less seedy and more clean cut, (it doesn’t work), I went in and found myself staring at chinese sex doll thinking – it looks a bit Yoko, if a little open mouthed, I could dress it up – but somehow that seemed too sordid even for me, and I left the shop still trying to think of something.

Chinese doll

 

I had put plenty of thought into things to accompany the challenge, I’ve been buying Lennon CDs, DVDs, biographies etc to try and get a handle on what he did during the ‘bed ins’ to try and make my stay a little more authentic.

I found online that Yoko had a book called Grapefruit which was a semi autobiographical collection of instructions and drawings – it was going to take weeks to arrive so I thought I’d search it out in a few bookshops, when Foyles doesn’t even stock it you know it’s not going to be sitting on the shelves anywhere so I started thinking of other ways to find a Yoko.

Armed with the phone numbers for a couple of late night talk radio shows, I braced myself for more disappointment, being placed on hold for what felt like forever by BBC London, I gave up and headed out to meet friends for a drink to see if they could help with last ditch ideas.

Mulling over the problem I had to let the venue down, I felt awful, the people at the Troubadour have been nothing but great to me, they had even tried to add a little more publicity to the event
themselves and having to back out on them at the last moment made me feel even worse than I had all day. If I was going to complete the task it would be at home in Tooting because if I couldn’t make get someone else to the venue there seemed no point in doing it in the middle of London.

The conversation in the pub did throw up several different possibilities, kidnap seemed  a little extreme,, so thought went back to the idea of getting a stunt double / doll.  Earlier in the year for national scarecrow day I had built a 5 foot tall scarecrow which has been stood in our lounge for the last couple of months, whilst I have never felt the urge to sleep with it, I did start to think it could make a suitable Yoko, I could dress it up a little to look like Ms Ono and at least I would be sharing a space with a human shaped object, even if it wasn’t breathing, so when I got home I looked at it and made the decision that it’d have to do.

When I had planned this event I was going to hold it at the Garrett which had told me they would be able to cater my event, and would be able to bring food up to the room so there would be no need to leave the bed and break the rules of the challenge, I’d taken this into account and ad let the food in my house run down. My major problem now was I wasn’t going to the Garrett and I was set to spend 24 hours in a bed with no access to amenities, searching through my cupboards I found a litre bottle of water a can of coke and a packet of hobnob biscuits, not really the best plan for a 24 hour bed in.

Anyway at 9:30am I settled in to spend 24 hrs in bed, (with my Yoko), drawing inspiration pictures from John & Yoko’s efforts, I made a few Bed Peace / Hair (Beard) Peace posters for the wall and started to read Lennon’s biography.

I put on Lennon’s legend album for the first time and realised I knew far more of the songs then I expected, I’ve never been hugely into the Beatles or John Lennon as a solo artist but somehow they have seeped into my consciousness.

I filled my day by watching Lennon DVDs and reading, it became quite apparent that Lennon was into animation and to fill some time I started trying to do a few pictures in his style which can be seen here.

The rest of the day and night starts to blur, having nobody to talk to for 24 hrs means that even something like Loose Women can sound appealing – I switched the TV on briefly but seeing as the main guest was Joe Pasquale I turned it off again incredibly quickly.

I’d like to thank all the texts from people who kept telling me I was lazy and should get up, it was great to know you cared.

By the time the challenge finally finished I was very glad to get out of that bed, one thing I hadn’t thought about when selecting the scarecrow was the fact it had wooden poles as it’s main arms and body brace, these didn’t bend and were about 5 foot long in each direction, meaning the Yoko took up the majority of the bed.

I completed the challenge in the best way that I could, but I feel I didn’t do it justice, that said it was a brilliant experience, I’ve had emails from a mad woman and been caricatured in a national paper, things I never thought would happen after a drunken chat in a bar in Spain.

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As this is my first proper mail out of October I should point out the strange days I intend to cover this month, they are:

October 12th – Cookbook Launch Day  (so if you have any special recipes please send them to me)
October 23rd (from 6.02am to 6.02pm) National Mole Day – sadly not the rodent kind but the chemistry one (it’s the reason I only got an E at A Level in Chemistry maybe 15 years on I might finally understand it)
October 27th – National Tell a Story Day

That said October 18th was so, so tempting  http://holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/October/nobeardday.htm

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Loads more to come in the next few weeks, keep on challenging me and i’ll keep accepting

Rob /Devani

 

www.justgiving.com/twothousandandgreat

Two Thousand and Great – I’ve been sold

Dear all

 

Someone has bought me for £300 – I’m yet to discover whether it’s a Yoko or a Bloko, all will be revealed soon.

 

Rob / Devani

Two Thousand and Great – John & Yoko relisting.

Dear all,

As an ebay novice I made a mistake in how the listing was made and as such not all the money would have been to donated to MacMillan as intended.

Therefore I have re-listed the challenge.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180295077822

Please be aware that it is this Friday from 9am until 9am on Saturday.

All donations go to MacMillan, I will cover all the other expenses your travel, food etc…

Please bid on me, it’s for a great cause!

Rob / Devani

Two Thousand and Great – Week 40

Dear all,

A short email this week, mainly as I kept everyone up to date with all the news as it went on last week.

Several people commented on the cartoon in the Guardian I discovered I am the bastard child of Pavarotti and Brain Blessed. I’ve never really thought about this possibility before but it is a worrying turn of events.

The auction has been won but due to a small stumbling block, I am going to resubmit the item and do a 2 day quickie auction. This is to try and get more links to it (I am re-contacting all the press sources – especially following the Yoko Ono email) and seeing if I can make this challenge earn more for the charity. I think it is a great idea and one that i thought would get masses more for the nurses and all the staff who do so much good work.

Away from bed ins, I also started on my strange days for September. One of my best friends flew in from Spain on Friday nigt which changed my plans a little for Native American Day – I visited Hamleys in the afternoon to go and buy head dresses etc but as I wasn’t sure what sort of bar we would end up in I decided against it. (That said i still got turned away by one place for wearing a hooded to and training shoes. Looking as i do you’d have thought my back pack would have been a little more menacing, but apparently Richard Reed still tops the terrorist methods in Clapham Junction.

I tried to sneak a few native americanisms into the conversation by asking ‘how’ a lot but not so much why where or when…. this seemed a lame effort so when I got home I did some research and I am provisionally booked onto a totem pole making course in late October – this is a 2 day thing in a woods down in Dorset, that can bee seen here – http://www.mallinson.co.uk/

The guy who runs it sounds amazing and you can tell he has a real passion for the work he does, I chatted to him about how long he has run the place – apparently he took the option on some woodlands by his farm and has small groups go into the woods to carve stuff through the year. The totem making course takes a couple of days and is quite pricy but it looks great fun and a good way for me to celebrate this strange day (if a little late).

Saturday was my second strange day this month and I celebrated International rabbit day – after a quick visit to the farm where I did my shearing earlier in the year (and to visit Goggles my adopted sheep) I fed a few bunnies and then went to a butchers. I remember when I was a kid you could go into a proper butcher and see rabbits hanging in the background fully skinned staring wildly at you. Now due to Health and Safety laws you can’t buy a rabbit with it’s skin on anymore.

I bought a couple of rabbits and then realised I had no idea how to cook them in any other method other than on an open fire (I was a boy scout after all) not wishing to risk ruining the meal I popped into W H Smiths and looked at Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s Meat book(which is fantastic) and then headed over to buy more ingredients. All I can say is I had a lovely stew, I think it was just slightly overcooked, but delicious nonetheless.

To end the night I went to a friends birthday and I am not sure whether it was planned to help me out or just a moment of great fortune but we ended up in a little restaurant in Shepherd’s Bush called Blah Blah Blah.

What made BBB so perfect is the fact it only serves vegetarian food and as such i finished the day (wearing bunny ears) and munching on lettuce. – I say I munched on lettuce but this is a little white lie. I actually ate about 20 cherry tomatoes and some roasted pine nuts as I don’t really like rocket and everything else on the menu had an ingredient that falls foul of my very fussy foibles – people who know me well could probably list some of the better known ones like furry fruit and vegetables, all forms of fungus etc, etc… namely the vegetarians staple diet.

Sunday was a chance to try and catch up on sleep and to see my friend from Spain off. As a group we were sat in a pub shaking from the effects of 2 heavy nights and trying to play Trivial Pursuit whilst nursing shandies. All I can say is the game is radically improved when using an original version of the Genus questions. Some of the sporting answers were horridly out of date, but I digress.

Tomorrow is mud pack day and a chance to get hair ripped from my body.

I’ll send a reminder about the new auction tomorrow, if anyone was interested in why I became a hermit for 6 or 7 weeks – the reason can be seen here – jla.co.uk

Anyway I have to go

Keep on challenging me and i’ll keep accepting

Rob /Devani

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Oh, I nearly forgot, one of my biggest supporters over the years, has sent an email out about a new book he is researching provisionally entitled Blind dates from Hell – If you have anything you want to share with the world in a totally anonymous way then please drop a line to the following email address: blinddatesfromhell@smokehouse.co.uk

Two Thousand and great – oh no… Oh Yes!

Dear all

I thought this week couldn’t get any more weird.

Seeing a cartoon of yourself in a newspaper is odd, receiving an email from Yoko Ono is actually odder….

 Dear Rob

IMAGINE PEACE

Because if one billion people in the world think peace, we will get peace.
You may think, well, how are we going to get one billion people to think peace?
Remember each one of us has the power to change the world.
Power works in mysterious ways. 
You don’t have to do much.
Visualize the domino effect and just start thinking peace.
The message will circulate faster than you think.
It’s time for action.
And the action is peace.
Spread the word.
Spread peace.
As my husband and partner, John Lennon said,
“Imagine all the people living life in peace.” 
Thank you.
I love you.
yoko ono

I’m visualising lots of people bidding on my auction and helping to raise lots of money, to aid in the fight against cancer.

Please bid it is for a really important cause.

Rob / Devani

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=180291070711

Two Thousand and Great – In the news…

It’s not everyday that you get turned into a cartoon in a national newspaper, so I thought I’d post it online.

The Guardian has done a little piece on the John & Yoko Challenge (see below), and I thought I’d write a note as there is only a couple of days left to bid. 

The cartoon in the piece is very scary and might stop people considering bidding, but it is all for a good cause!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=180291070711

 

 

Guardian 26th September 2008

Two Thousand and Great – Weeks 34 through 39 (part II)

Dear all,

 

September 23rd is always an odd day for me, I start it feeling apologetic and then I start remembering lots of things which are the reason I do these fundraising events.

Today is my mums birthday (the reason I feel apologetic is I am a crap son and never buy a card and end up starting the day with a groveling phone call where i make up a tall tale as to why I haven’t remembered again…) Today was also Richard’s birthday and obviously being linked it means he comes to mind as well on days like today. 

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I had an odd night with very mixed thoughts, I haven’t ever really considered who would bid on me for the John & Yoko Challenge – sticking myself on ebay for 24 hours with a stranger is possibly a foolhardy exercise.

My housemate read my blog last night and decided to look at the auction, I hadn’t until this point for two reasons, 1 that nobody had bid on me and 2 the possibility that someone had bid on me.  

Something strange has happened, when he went onto the site there had been 4 bids, the odd thing was the first had been lodged before I had announced the page to the followers of this blog, the group  and my mailout list. I have never used ebay before apart from buying a couple of Pipette singles a number of years ago (these were on vinyl and I don’t own a record player). Paul decided to try and work out who the bidders were by looking at their previously purchased items.

We guessed two straight away, the user name gave one away along woth purchases of wedding present cds. the others purchases were shoes or womens clothes – after narrowing that list to 2 we realised that the jeans waist size was slightly too small for Malcolm who was on the shortlist…

This left 2 strangers and we had no idea. What is scary is the purchases that the individual had made – apart from 4 freeview boxes they had also purchsed some sheep shearing equipment which usually retails at £800. I’m getting scared now that someone is going to win the bid with the soul intention of shearing my beard off…

Which is why I am asking for your help to beat this bid…

Please bid on me!!! I’m scared!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=180291070711

Keep on challenging me, I’ll keep accepting.

Rob

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I’ve got to fit in 3 strange days before the end of the month

The plan is:

Sept 26th – Native American Day

Sept 27th -International Rabbit Day

Sept 30th – National Mud Pack Day (which might lead to me completing another challenge which involves a full body wax……)

Two Thousand and Great – Weeks 34 through 39 (Part 1)

Dear all,

Firstly I’d like to make my apologies for disappearing for a month. Several times this year, people have asked how I manage to fit in all the challenges whilst holding down a job, the usual answer was I just do, this last month I haven’t. I could go into a long and winding explanation of why but it’s boring. Over this period I took one day off, and that wasn’t challenge related, I went to a friends birthday which involved go karting and drinking (though sadly not at the same time). The only thing I learned is that go karting leaves you looking like a poster child for Barnardos, the bruises took a couple of days to come out – it’s harsh.

The reason for this early email is I need to start drumming up support for one of my more ambitious challenges - The John & Yoko Challenge:

I’ve put myself up on ebay…

Because I am not allowed to shave or cut my hair this year (another challenge) someone thought that I might start to resemble John Lennon when he staged his bed in after his marriage to Yoko Ono and set me a challenge. I have to spend 24 hours in bed with someone (my Yoko), the problem is I do not get to choose who that person is…. that is decided by auction, and the person who bids the most takes the place.

The lovely people at The Troubadour http://www.troubadour.co.uk have offered to host this challenge, in their secret writer’s retreat / luxury suite called The Garret - http://www.troubadour.co.uk/the-garret.html

The photos in the listing show the space which is stunning. The challenge will be held on Friday 3rd October (from 9am) – until Saturday 4th October.

Every penny that you bid will go directly to MacMillan Cancer Support, I will cover all the other expenses – your travel, food etc…

Personally I am not sure why anyone would bid money for the chance to spend 24 hours with a bearded sranger, but it is all for a charity which is very close to my heart (and I promise I am house trained.)

MacMillan provide so much help and assistance to patients and families fighting cancer and this is my small way of saying thank you to them for the help they gave to my friend, his family and everyone going through the same struggle.

For more information please email me at robertdanavell@hotmail.com

www.justgiving.com/twothousandandgreat

ebay item ref: 180291070711

Rob

I will write a proper update later.  Sadly we missed talk like a pirate day last Friday, one which I know many people were looking forward to, I know I have so many challenges left to complete and I need to start on these as from now.

Two Thousand and Great – Weeks 32 & 33

Dear all

Sorry for the lack of email last week, things started to snowball and I found myself unable to sit and write it all out.

Monday started with an odd bit of news, I am a tramp! I should probably explain that a little more… As part of the Rob must Die challenge, a friend of mine contacted the author Stuart MacBride He has agreed to write me into his next novel which is due out at the beginning of next year. the main dead person in the book is a Polish person and my name isn’t Polish enough so I am being written in as a dead tramp!! A natural causes kind of death without an autopsy, but a form of death nonetheless.

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Earlier in the year somebody challenged me to do a 10k run, the catch here was his donation will double if I manage to beat him over the distance. Already outlawing the obvious of simply doing his knees at the start line I have to get training. Anyone with any tips for a  non-runner let me know. I can swim for ages or cycle forever just can’t run unless there’s a ball to chase as I get bored so quickly. The event we have entered is in Brighton on the 26th October – wish me luck, I’ll need it.

Saturday saw me complete a lovely challenge, Richard’s Cousin set me the task of doing the Monopoly pub crawl. As she is a student she was worried that she wouldn’t be able to donate a great deal so came up with the idea of making a donation of 20p in the pound for the amount I raised on the day. Setting off in our lovely crawl tee shirts (thanks Matt and the lovely people at Mantis World) we left Old Kent Road and wandered through Monopoly’s streets – top hat in hand. 

It was great fun, but at times a little like herding cats. Trying to get a group of increasingly drunken people in and out of 26 pubs was getting tougher and tougher. To speed things up the genius idea of shot rounds came about and the group was introduced to a new drink called Lemon drops. It’s basically a shot of vodka which is followed by  biting a slice of lemon which has been dipped in sugar. They are surprisingly good and made it possible to get through a few pubs quickly.

Should you wish to have a go at it, this website provides a really good start point – although sometimes it is good to change pubs where local knowledge can steer you to a better bar (a good case in point being Dirty Dicks at London Bridge or not to end at The Tottenham on Oxford Street and instead go to the Phoenix just off Oxford Circus)

To finish the day a few of us went downstairs at The Phoenix for their Sin City night which has a Country & Western theme, walking down the stairs to the strains of the Duke’s of Hazzard theme tune I knew we’d found the right place. this lead to a  a ridiculous amount of dosy doing and swinging partners. I have to say thanks to the promoter of the night who after hearing about what we had done in the day and the other challenges this year refunded the entrance fee I had paid and told me to add it to the collection.

In total the pub crawl raised £202 which was £197 on the day and £5 from the taxi driver on the way back, the challenger is donating a further £45 and I’ll chuck in a couple of extra quid which makes it a nice £250 donation for a great day out. Pictures from the day can be seen here. 

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Last Tuesday I went to Walthamstow Dogs with a couple of friends to make a visit before the doors are shut forevermore. I only include it in this email as one of the people who had originally said they’d come in the end couldn’t make it but asked me to stake a tenner on the one dog in the first race and if it won all the proceeds would be given to Twothousandandgreat unfortunately several thousand people also had a similar idea of going to the track before it closed which meant actually getting a bet on was in some cases impossible. I was one away from the window when the hare started running and the dog I would have backed did win. As I was at the window for the next race I did put down my friends bet. This time however the fairy tale didn’t come true as the 1 dog failed to make an impression on the race.

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Saturday was supposed to be Tell a Joke Day but I wasn’t feeling particularly jovial as I had to come in to the office to catch up with some work. I did find the time to catch up with a friend on Messenger through the day who I told a series of increasingly bad jokes to – but I don’t feel I have done enough to count this as a strange day, so I am going to have to fit in another before the end of the month.

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Sunday 17th August was National Thriftshop Day – I wasn’t 100% sure how to celebrate this as the concept of thrift shop doesn’t exist quite as it does in the US. I could have taken thrift to mean cheap and gone and genuflected before the might of Lidl or Costco, spent time walking around a poundstore asking the staff how much each item was (Funny for the first 2 times – after that they start getting angry) but then decided it was more about second hand. I visited a couple of the local charity shops in my local area before traveling up to Camden to visit the stables market where there are hundreds of thrift stores.

Starting with the goal of buying the best possible thing with £10 I went through dozens of shops. You could easily waste days in some of these places. The old toy shops were incredible. I found myself going had that, had that, had that so many times and now seeing that they are collectors items. (This goes way beyond the ubiquitous star wars figurines but into the realms of top trumps, big trak and hundreds of other items. I never considered myself spoilt as a kid but I realise now, how much superfluous crap I must have had. 

Some pictures of thriftshop day can be seen here

In the end I plumped for something which wasn’t technically from a thrift shop or technically under £10 but it does bring me onto Monday which was Bad Poetry Day. In a comic store I found a series of figures from Tim Burton’s Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, which are beautiful poems about characters like Stain Boy and Match girl.

For Bad Poetry Day I asked people to email me a verse of bad prose. I had about a dozen peole send me poems which can all be seen here. If people can have a read of them and let me know which is their favourite I’ll mail them the rhyming dictionary as their prize.

My personal fave is the bad Haiku: 

Haikus are easy

But sometimes they don’t make sense

refridgerator

As a postscript one of the poems had magical powers…  Big Dog actually came true. The star of the narrative (Big Dog) had gone missing last Thursday but after having a poem written about him on Facebook he indeed turned up in Gareth Gates’s apartment block. (you’ll have to read it for that last sentence to make sense.)

I’m now trying to convince the author of the poem to write a verse about a certain bearded fellow making it to £10,000 for Macmillans by the end of the year as she appears to be able to make things happen with words. 

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Lastly but by no means least, We have a date set and in the book for the John & Yoko Challenge – it will be happening on  Friday 3rd October at the beautiful Garrett room of the Troubadour which can be seen here - It’s an amazing place and I am so happy to have them behind me on this challenge. The e-bay page will go up in this week and i’ve got to get press releases out about this ASAP in order to get as much promotion out of this as possible.

For those who are unaware of the challenge – I have to spend 24 hours in bed – the catch is I need a Yoko and I do not get to choose who it is. The person who bids the most to share the space for 24 hours in an auction wins. I’m not 100% who or why anyone would want to do this which is why I need to get support from all angles.

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Keep on challenging me and I’ll keep on accepting

Rob / Devani