abcjre: October 2012

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Mussels, chocolates in Brussels

A good, but tiring, day at Aid Ex.

Followed by some Moule n Frittes with the team.

Jo even had a kid dance with her outside a chocolate shop!

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Location:Lambermontlaan,Schaarbeek,Belgium

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

AidEx 2012

I'm in Brussels for an Aid event.

Here's the view opposite our event hall.

It's strangely warm here for a late October evening.

Great guest house too and we've been well fed... Just in bed now with that Pre event feelings late at night.

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Location:Lambermontlaan,Schaarbeek,Belgium

Monday, 22 October 2012

The Malevolence

They built The Malevolence (Joshie's b'day pressie).

Very tricky but they worked well together.

Good job troops.

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Location:Cambrian Road,Tunbridge Wells,United Kingdom

Monday, 15 October 2012

Saturday 11th November Sevenoaks Chronicle article

About 40 years ago the local newspaper welcomed the Solanky family.

My father yesterday showed me the paper.

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Location:Gate Farm Road,,United Kingdom

Today is a significant day. 40 years ago...

My brother was 6 months old when he boarded a plane at Entebbe airport. My father said "little Rajan was so thirsty that he begged the stewardess for some water for his throat."

That was 40 years ago when my father, mother, little Rajan, my grandfather and grand mother her sister and 2 aunties boarded a plane leaving their lives behind.

Today, "little" Rajan, forty years on, wrote:

Today is a significant day. 40 years ago my family arrived on a cold windswept tarmac at Stansted airport, after being expelled from Uganda, with little more than the clothes on their backs. They survived and thrived in the face of social, economic and political unrest, I've been inspired by you my whole life.