“I won’t back down, no I won’t back down You can stand me up at the gates of hell But I won’t back down’ – ‘I won’t back down’ – Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne There’s just six weeks to go till the Miles for Smiles 10k fund-raising run in Dubai on behalf of cleft
Events
A man from Mars with a human heart
They’re coming from everywhere to participate in the ‘Miles for Smiles’ fund-raising run in Dubai on 22 November. There’s even a man from Mars taking part. Not the planet Mars though, even though his name is Martyn. We’re talking the confectionery house here, and in particular we’re talking one Martyn Westbury. Martyn has been given
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Events
Darkness at the edge of town
[All WWHQ pictures: Minox DC 8011] My training regime for the ‘Miles for Smiles’ fund-raising 10k run in Dubai on 22 November on behalf of cleft charity The Smile Train is about to get a whole lot harder. There are worrying signs of winter approaching down in the deep, dark recesses of the garden at Chez
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Miscellaneous
The eyes have it as Miles for Smiles ‘fun run’ turns into a weighting game
When you’re a top-class athlete, every single gram of additional weight counts. Or so such athletes tell me. Despite the achilles tendon-linked glitch in my training schedule for the ‘Miles for Smiles’ 10k fun run in Dubai on 22 November on behalf of children’s cleft charity The Smile Train*, I have been working hard on
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Events
The Nuance Group supports Publisher’s charity run but hedges bets as achilles heel strikes
My fateful decision to participate in the 10k ‘Miles for Smiles’ run in Dubai on 22 November is looking more foolhardy every day. The Moodie Blog has banned the use of the term ‘fun run’ because in our experience the two words simply do not belong in the same universe, let alone event. To survive this
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Events
Running Miles for Smiles… and a pint of milk
It was that last half mile that did for me, and the extra weight… The Moodie Report knows all about looming deadlines, we live under their guillotine-like effect every day of the week. But one has been looming rather more worryingly than all the others – despite, by our standards, being a long way off. It’s the
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People
Anji starts a new innings as The Smile Train lends the strength of love
Good news from Dr Mukunda Reddy, head of the cleft unit at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad, India, that is largely funded by cleft charity The Smile Train. Readers of The Moodie Blog will remember little Anji (above), the cheeky wee boy with deep brown eyes, a smile as wide as Hyderabad (especially when
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Airlines
Bravo British Airways as cabin crew show the value of a smile
One finds human kindness in the most unexpected places – even at 35,000 feet up in the sky. Flying back to London from Mumbai, India last Sunday on BA198, a kindly Scottish cabin crew member called Elaine McWilliams (pictured above right with her colleague Maria) stopped to ask me about The Smile Train wristband I was