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Happy things

Top 5 Essential Apps for the iPhone Virgin


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This post was inspired by my dad. That said, I hope it proves useful for other people reading it too ;) If you’ve not had the pleasure of meeting him yet, my dad is the infamous Dr Egg. You can read more about him and his hair shaving adventures

Reasons To Be Joyful In January


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I made a school girl error yesterday. I invited my long suffering husband to read my latest blog post. In my defence, he’d sat patiently by my side as I finished tapping the last few sentences. He’d even tried to engage me in conversation by asking what I was doing. It felt natural therefore

Painted Egg? – Dr Egg’s Blog

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Being Dr Egg, with a slowly growing mop around a very wide parting, it occurred to me that eggs get painted. Take for example the egg

Sponsor an Egg

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For the last three months, Give A Brick Treasurer Mike Simmons (aka Dr Egg and @DrMikeSimmons) has been growing his hair. Not known for his flowing locks it has been something of a talking point! As I explained

Big Brother and the charity flag

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I have to confess that I’m not much of a reality TV fan. I remember being glued to ‘I’m a Celeb’ back in about 2002 but these days, the whole genre tends to leave me cold. However, when

Egg and the pony tail


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After my lovely husband banned me from shaving my hair off for Give A Brick, I asked our wonderful treasurer and trustee if he might kindly oblige instead. Admittedly, he has a lot less hair than me but as I warned his wife, there’s always the danger that it won’t grow back

Budgie Jumping – Dr Egg’s Blog

photo credit: James Jordan I’ve just had an interesting discussion with my youngest daughter. She says she’s going to do a budgie jump for Give a Brick. It’s something like she did for charity a few years ago when she did a parachute jump for a different charity. When she did that, because she was…

Happy Days

Have you ever had a moment in time where you wish you could just bottle how content and happy you’re feeling? I don’t mean the traditional happy days like weddings or the birth of your child but a day when life just feels good. In fact, it doesn’t even have to be a day, just…

Children’s questions about God stuff

This video has little to do with Give A Brick but it made me laugh so I thought I’d share it with you:

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