I shouldn't have left you without a dope beat to step to

Hello everybody! Have no fear – I am not dead. I just haven’t been in the mood to talk or see anybody for the past weeks. Not your fault really, just a lot of shizzle going on, both personally and “professionally”.

So, what has been going on then? Well…

In case you haven’t heard already, Battlefront won a Digital Emmy last week and we have also been nominated for a BAFTA. So safe to say that I have been over the moon and felt like all my hard work (even if it is only one small part of it all) has paid off. I met most of our campaigners (I like to refer to them as my little babies) last week at a Channel 4 event which was nice. I also attended an event help by our STOP: Gun & Knife Crime campaigner, Alex Rose, to celebrate his initiative called “Education is the key” – where he has taken guns and knives that have been handed in to the police and melted them down to these really cool pendants:

Education is the key

We also had a visit from our only campaigner who lives abroad, Zuhal. She came over to the UK all the way from Baghdad, where she is running a campaign called Music For a Change, her cause to start the first Iraqi National Youth Orchestra. She held a recital down town at the Wigmore Hall, and I must admit that she is a remarkable young woman trying to achieve something rather incredible considering her everyday life circumstances.

Yesterday our Gift of Life campaigner, Holly Shaw, had Donor Day – a day where she was encouraging people to sign up to the donor register via her new website that we made for her. The day was an amazing success, she managed to get over 3000 people sign up via her website, plus various donor desks that people set up all across the country in support of her campaign. She appeared on GMTV, Sky News in the evening, and even Gordon Brown showed his support to her campaign! Also worth mentioning is that Holly herself is a transplant patient. She had a sudden kidney failure in 2005 and was kept alive by a dialysis machine until she finally received “the call” in October last year.

Apart from all this, which basically is my daytime job, I have been trying to work on some other projects on my free time. Although I have to admit it hasn’t really been going as well as I would have hoped due to personal issues, lack of time, and being rather exhausted. However, I am going home to Sweden this weekend to hopefully get some rest, see my family (my dad who I haven’t seen for over a year and my adorable goddaughter who is just getting bigger by the minutes being the highlights) and some friends (ANNA!). I am hoping to gather enough energy so I can make a final “push” in my outside work activities, to then disappear on a wonderful holiday to Australia for 2 weeks in the middle of May.

And I guess that’s about it my friends, at least for now. I will try to make some more updates, and I apologise if this seemed a bit too “work related”, but what can I say? It is basically all I am doing, working… I hope you are enjoying the sunshine, I will be back soon enough, because it has been a bit too long between the updates I do agree. Lots of love! x

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