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Celebrities Speak Out for Children of Alcoholics

Posted in NACOA, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on 6 February 2009 | 7 Comments »

STOP PRESS:  Tuesday 10th February – I’ll be on BBC Somerset just after the 11am news talking about COA Week.  Tune in on www.BBC.co.uk/somerset
What do Elle Macpherson, Geraldine James, Marco Pierre White, Belinda Carlisle, Lauren Booth and Abi Roberts  all have in common?
They are uniting to raise awareness of the inaugural Children of Alcoholics [...]

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This ‘Woman’s Hour’ Has Arrived!

Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on 3 December 2008 | 2 Comments »

Dearest all, I’m in London and currently looking out of a window onto the world and the clock is ticking along, getting ever closer to 1am – eek!
I had a call late yesterday from Radio 4 (as you do) asking if I could just whip up to Town and go do Woman’s Hour?  Well, as [...]

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What a Rubbish Childhood

Posted in General rubbish, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 6 November 2008 | 6 Comments »

Please indulge me breaking off the usual line today, but I want to tell you what I’m up to tonight.  And anyway, it certainly connects to my Book of Rubbish Ideas, because for every single copy that’s bought, I’m making a donation to an amazing charity called NACOA.
They are perhaps easier remembered as The National [...]

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You’re Helping to Keep the Glass Half Full

Posted in The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged , , on 26 September 2008 | 4 Comments »

NACOA is a fabulous little charity, but one that you might not have come across before.
The abbreviation stands for The National Association for Children of Alcoholics and it has a very dear place in my heart.
I am a child of an alcoholic (COA) and some of my earliest childhood memories are of mum drinking [...]

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