Red Nose Day
Today is Red Nose Day in the UK. As the highlight of the charity Comic Relief, the brainchild of charity worker Jane Tewson, it is an annual fundraising campaign to alleviate child poverty in the UK and around the world. It was initiated by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and the comedian Lenny Henry in 1985, at a time when Ethiopia was experiencing severe famine.
The slogan for 2024 is ‘Do something funny for money’ and many organisations and individuals rise to the challenge. The BBC evening schedule is taken over by Comic Relief from 7.00 with comedy skits from otherwise ‘serious’ people like news presenters, parodies of popular programmes and challenges. There is a live telethon and the aim of the evening is to raise as much money as possible.
In schools throughout the British Isles children will be sporting red noses and possibly red clothing. Ordinary people will be doing extraordinary things and everyone is invited to donate to the cause.
The red nose looks more like a teapot!
I have never heard of a red nose day, what a good idea, it would suit me very well ! Instead St Patrick was celebrated here nobody knew what it was and the very old once didn't know where Ireland was. The two youngsters did their best, but to me it didn't sound like Irish music. I shut my mouth and flited with a huge Bouvier Bernois who loved me too, he belonged to a nurse. I have never seen so many dogs in a retirement home I always heard that animals are not allowed but our manager doesn't care he wants to make everybody happy. And we are ! Rosie too she prefers to stay in the room. Of course the dogs are visitors. So far I met a German shephard’ a Golden Retriever an enormous Poodle as big as the others a Labrador and the Bearnese Mountain dog !!
ReplyDeleteI smiled at the thought of people not knowing where Ireland is. How strange it was for them to celebrate St Patrick's Day.
DeleteIt's so good that dogs can visit - they bring such innocence and joy.
... and Red Nose Day is still needed here in 2024 as it was back in 1985.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan.
PS The red noses were never very comfortable to wear!
I think Red Nose Day is probably even more needed now.
DeleteThe red noses pinched and made everyone sound adenoidal!
Red Nose Day is a wonderful idea. Frankie looks very fetching in his nose which definitely does look like a teapot.
ReplyDeleteHe wouldn't show me the one he had this year - eleven years old, now, and getting very self-conscious.
DeleteIt is not Red Nose day here as yet Janice - but when it is the milk tankers that go past our gate & come out to the farm to collect milk have big huge red noses on the front grill of the tankers - it looks wonderful!
ReplyDeleteThat must look so great. Some cars here have red noses.
DeleteI remember the beginnings of Red Nose Day. Does that date me? Lol
ReplyDeleteNo more than it does me, Sharon:-)
DeleteHi Janice - lovely looking grandchild ... I've always avoided Red Nose Day - but I never had a child, but I'm sure I'd be involved if I'd have had one ... cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteI couldn't avoid it when I was teaching, but don't get involved now. I don't actually like manufactured events - too much forced jollity and manipulation of emotions. It's a good thing not everyone's like me;-)
DeleteYour grandson is a cutie! Even with a big red nose.
ReplyDeleteHe can be very sweet. He's eleven now and bears the weight of the world on his shoulders some days!
DeleteRed Nose Day is such a great initiative, isn't it? And I'm loving Frankie's rather unusual red nose! xxx
ReplyDeleteIt is a good cause and raises a good deal of money. x x x
DeleteFrankie at age 7 looks great in his red tea pot nose. I hope he enjoyed the event this year whatever the nose he was wearing.
ReplyDeleteI think he did - 11-year-old boys aren't always very communicative:-)
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