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Helenwade

After a number of years working as a  television news journalist, I took a break to raise a young family. I now run my own media consultancy business.  It gives me the freedom to pursue my other interests, choral conducting, classical singing and piano.  I have qualifications and graded examinations ...

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Race for Life

March 7, 2013

Today I decided to do something I’ve been meaning to do for some time but never had the courage. I’ve signed up to run a charity race. I wanted to raise funds like so many millions of others, to help find a cure for “the Big C” – that’s cancer in case you’re wondering. The…

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: cancer research UK, charity, fund-raising, marathon, myeloma, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, running

Sing for Pleasure

December 11, 2012

Are choirs the new “rock and roll?” Apparently so, due largely to the popularity of Gareth Malone’s reality-TV programmes and his hugely successful hits with the Military Wives’ Choir. Suddenly, choral conductors are the sexy, new darlings of the media, on the covers of magazines and newspapers, lauded by the great and the good. Four-part…

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: British Association of Music Therapists, choir, choirmaster, conducting, Gareth Malone, Manvinder Rattan, music, Sing for Pleasure, singers, singing, sounds, therapeutic

The hand that rocks the cradle also rocks the world

November 29, 2012

This was the best quote of the day from Miriam González Durántez, a truly impressive, keynote speaker at the MumsnetBlogFest I attended recently in London.  It might seem a bit of a presumptuous cliche  but if you follow the thought through and realise that humans are shaped from infancy and that those infants might become the decision-makers of the…

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: democracy, Gibraltar, Miriam González Durántez, MumsnetBlogfest, Republican, Spain, Spanish Civil War

Play time or no time?

October 23, 2012

A Mum at the school gate asked me when my five-year-old son would be free for a “play date.”  Neither of us had a free slot until Christmas Eve.  I headed off thinking “how and when did play time become so complicated?” When did a run-around in the fresh air after school or playing Lego with a…

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: after-school activities, ante-natal group, busy lifestyles, children, families, games, mother-and-toddler group, parents, Play date, play group, play time, school, sports, weekend

Lady Sybil

October 14, 2012

Watching an episode of “Downton Abbey” in which Lady Sybil dies from complications following childbirth, made me think how far we have come in all matters relating to women having babies.  I was appalled at how the life and death decisions in Lady Sybil’s case were made by men (her father and her father’s chosen…

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Abel Tasman National Park,New Zealand. Been there! It's gorgeous.
Model train rides in Surrey. A great day out for the family!
The Sixteen and Harry Christophers
Choir at Passion Sunday service
Gorgeous wedding anniversary cake made by my lovely husband and our two sons.
Gibraltar

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  • BBC News
  • Brindisa Spanish Food
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  • Gibraltar Chronicle
  • Gibraltar Government
  • Gibraltar London
  • Sing For Pleasure
  • St Joseph’s Family Choir
  • Scribepress
  • The Sixteen

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