Peter Kenny
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Diabetes. Beware the silent assassin
This image is from the new Diabetes UK campaign. And I loathe it. I’ve been walking past a 48 sheet of it in Brighton for several weeks. The line is Diabetes. Beware the silent assassin. Of course I understand why the charity went for scare tactics with a diabetes epidemic looming. Type two diabetes is…
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On drugs again
I’m in the middle of lots of healthcare work right now. One project has been to create a patient support programme for diabetes patients for a healthcare agency in London. The other is working directly with a pharmaceutical client to revamp a large patient website. My twitchiness about client confidentiality prevents me from naming names…
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Pooran Desai and Kia Colbeck interviews.
My piece on Pooran Desai OBE, Technical Director of One Planet Living and Co-founder of BioRegional can be found here. And the piece on Kia Colbeck, Croydon’s queen of sustainability is here.
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Waitrose Autumn TV advert
So, call me a purist… But let me get this right. Some copy donkey saw fit to edit the first stanza of To Autumn by John Keats. And got Roger McGough, who should be ashamed of himself, to do the voice over, and seamlessly blend Keats into “enjoy all the delicious flavours of Autumn now.…
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local radio
So I toddled off to talk about male childlessness to Allison on the Allison Fearns show on BBC Sounthern Counties radio. Her show is very chatty and fluid, responding to daily news items and mixes gossip with more informative stuff, and she is a good broadcaster. It’s all very casual of course, when you turn…
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I’m on the radio
I will be on BBC Southern Counties Radio Tomorrow Wednesday 1st October, talking about childlessness. on the Allison Fearns show. Probably be on a little after 2.00PM UK time, which is GMT +1. For a live stream click through here.
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Pooran Desai and One Brighton
Interviewed the sustainability pioneer Pooran Desai OBE last Friday, and attended the opening of the zero carbon One Brighton development, which it is claimed is the most sustainable housing development in the UK – and possibly the world. His One Planet thinking informed its development. And it is fantastic. Having had the tour, and done…
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Gilbert Shelton and Fat Freddy’s Cat
Popped into Dave’s Comics in Brighton, where the legendary Gilbert Shelton was signing books. Or rather drawing in them, and then signing. I was there to score a copy for my pal Anton. I really enjoyed talking to Gilbert as he drew the Freak Brothers in the Freak Brothers Omnibus book jacket for me. I…
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Croydon – a river runs through it
Croydon always reminds me of returning from a holiday. For me it represents that moment when you are back to London and its realities. You’ve flown into Gatwick, and after ten minutes of countryside, the train pushes into East Croydon station with its views of soulless 1960s office blocks, and you know that the grey…
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the good agency
Just spent the best part of the week working at The Good Agency close to Waterloo station in London. As a freelance writer working in agencies from time to time, you get to take the temperature of an agency quite quickly. What I saw of The Good Agency lived up to its name: a friendly,…
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