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Cake, Glorious Cake

Kelly Quigley-Hicks attended Comms Camp 14 recently and like many attendees helped raise lots of lovely money for charity by baking and eating cake. In this post Kelly shares with us a storify of some of the amazing cakes baked, some

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The NHS new starter pack, bleepers and pictures of cake

Ross made the jump from localgov comms into health comms and it’s proving to be a big learning curve. He’s still coming to grips with the health acronyms and the huge hospital sites but he has cake a bleeper, so he’s a

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Birthdays, Values, Art and 1984

It would seem that you have all been out enjoying the fine weather this week and simply haven’t had the time to blog, or you might have heard that it was me Kate Bentham in as your rubbish host and

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Looking forward, facing up, going on

I’m starting the Week 2 summary with the final contribution of that week. Mrs Malaprop and Mr Waugh, Karen Hart’s beautifully written post, is well worth a read. She has just lost her father and wrote about the arranging of the

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People that are close, places far away

My apologies for the delay in the Week 37 summary due to catastrophic laptop failure, resulting eventually in having to replace the hard drive (and losing some files from the last couple of months since it last broke down when

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Lights, colour, action

You’re all welcome to a piece of my virtual, colourful birthday cake. It’s in all the colours of the rainbow, is calorie-free and suitable even for those who are gluten-intolerant. Part of it is lemon cake, part is vanilla and

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Modern Art Desserts by Caitlin Freeman

Warning: this post contains a link that leads to pictures of aesthetic cake. I once wanted to create whole dinners based on art history. I think it could be a great way to teach art history – dinner parties on

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Comms, cake, camping and chat

One Saturday recently, it became clear that my tweetstream has a lot of public sector people for whom communicating is a key part of their job because so many of them were attending CommsCamp13 in Birmingham. Of course, I had

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#COMMSCAMP13: My 20 wishes and hopes list

Dan Slee was one of the CommsCamp13 organisers. Amongst his wishes and hopes, he also mentions the other people  (including fellow organisers Ann Kempster and Darren Caveney, Official Cake Monitor Kate Bentham, facilitator Lloyd Davis and photographer Paul Clarke) and the sponsors who

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Read all about it

Carolyne Mitchell covers a lot in her post this week: under-road caged car tyres, emergency planning, a possible young rock star in the making, MMR jabs… and provides a recipe for chocolate brownies. How can you resist reading? Read all

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