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3rdSectorSkills

  1. Amazon are really quick these days - Running Successful Projects in the Voluntary Sector is on Kindle today amzn.to/LnqlRi
  2. Watch out world. Running Successful Projects in the Voluntary Sector will be on Kindle any day now. :-) :-)
  3. Just spent morning training some lovely people at Blackheath @ConservatoireSE. I love my job!
  4. Nothing to do with work or charities at all. This wretched bird box is taking up too much time! Finally proof... fb.me/1Fd3EGiLg
  5. Can't spend any more time bird watching. Off to help 9th West Wickham Scouts - Wordpress for the uninitiated. Hope there will be tea.
  6. Confusion at 3rd Sector Towers. Are our tenants Sparrows - or Blue Tits? Witness A claims Blue Tits, observed with binoculars.
  7. Great news from 3rd Sector Towers. Confirmation that the bird house has a tenant. Multiple, independent sightings. Possibly a sparrow.
  8. 6 May 1937 – Hindenburg disaster: It catches fire trying to dock and is destroyed completely within 60 seconds killing 36 people.
  9. 5 May: The Council of Europe declare today is Europe Day, The EU changed it to 9 May. Both days are celebrated. Brewery? Piss-up?
  10. 4 May - Happy Star Wars Day! (If you have no idea what I'm talking about bit.ly/15CVSX will explain)
  11. 3 May 1949 – Ken Hom, Chinese American chef was born. Thanks to him, the word 'flavourful' entered my vocabulary.
  12. 2 May - Leonardo da Vinci died this day in 1519, but what a legacy he left us.
  13. 1 May 1994 – Not a good day. F1 driver Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
  14. 31 April. Actually, there isn't one. Just seeing who's awake today...
  15. 30 April 1006 – the brightest supernova in recorded history appeared in the constellation Lupus. Will Betelgeuse be brighter? And when?
  16. To put the recent wet weather in perspective, here at 3rd Sector Towers we've had 4.5 inches of rain in the last 2 weeks!
  17. Happy Birthday to Sir Terry Pratchett creator of the Discworld,and thank you. Without your books, the world would be a much duller place.
  18. Exciting update from 3rd Sector Towers. Blue Tit spotted entering the bird house. It's hard to imagine how... fb.me/1ONnEX5KA
  19. News from 3rd Sector Towers - disappointingly little interest in the bird house. The little blighters are getting... fb.me/zH7yXFMR
  20. Very wet at 3rd Sector Towers today. Glad I'm inside slaving at a hot computer developing a new course.