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Everything Must Go!

On the final day of auctions prizes include 60 Go Bonkers to Brighton; Carfest VIP Packages; Tickets to see Phil Collins; Tom Kerridge's Pop Up Picturehouse and Take That For Hire.

It's the 4th and final day of Chris' auctions for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Children In Need! Everything must go! Chris throws in some amazing surprise prizes including 60 Go Bonkers to Brighton; Carfest VIP Packages; Tickets to see Phil Collins at British Summertime in Hyde Park; Tom Kerridge's Pop Up Picturehouse and Take That For Hire. THANK YOU to everyone who joined in and took part.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Thu 17 Nov 2016 06:30

Music Played

  • Take That

    Greatest Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.
  • The Shires

    A Thousand Hallelujahs

    • My Universe.
    • Decca.
    • 010.
  • Starship

    Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
    • 1.
  • Justin Bieber

    Sorry

    • Purpose.
    • Def Jam Recordings.
    • 4.
  • Reef

    Place Your Hands

    • 21st Century Rock (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
  • Paolo Nutini

    10/10

    • Sunny Side Up.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.
  • Blossoms

    Blown Rose

    • Blossoms.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 007.
  • Wham!

    Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.
  • Manfred Mann

    Do Wah Diddy Diddy

    • Ages Of Mann.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • John Legend

    Love Me Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Madonna

    Open Your Heart

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 13.
  • Take That

    These Days

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • The Kinks

    All Day And All Of The Night

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.
    • 23.
  • Rick Astley

    Keep Singing

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 001.
  • Queen

    Don't Stop Me Now

    • Jazz.
    • Island.
    • 12.
  • Free

    All Right Now

    • Back To The 70's (CD1) (Various).
    • EMI.
    • 15.
  • The Killers

    Human

    • Day & Age.
    • Mercury.
    • 1.
  • Phil Collins

    Sussudio

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.
  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.
  • David Bowie

    Heroes

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.
  • Green Day

    Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

    • Green Day - Nimrod.
    • Reprise.
  • Journey

    Don't Stop Believin'

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought
From Remona Aly, freelance journalist and editor:

Μύ

Sometimes I look back at days gone by and get that bittersweet taste of nostalgia, sighing for the fond and fuzzy memories to return. But it’s not quite the same sensation when I think about the nineties. Yes, the 90s - that decade of neon windbreakers, chewed up VHS tapes, and the teeth-gritting sound of the macarena. But the 90s wasn’t all bad - the mullet did eventually plummet to a very welcome death.

And talking of questionable 90s hairdos, my classroom was full of bad perms, pineapples, and a perpetual mist of cheap hairspray. Every day was a bad hair day in that bizarre decade.Μύ But for all the anti-nostalgia of the 90s, it was still a much brighter and more carefree time than the one we’re in now.

While I peer back 20 years, I also wonder how I’d look back on today in 20 years from now. I doubt that I’d view these days with much nostalgia.ΜύΜύ But it’s at times like these that I remind myself of the South American story of the hummingbird who tried to put out a raging forest fire. While the tiny hummingbird flew back and forth from a lake filling her little beak up with water, the other creatures watched, frightened, amazed, defeated. They bemoaned, β€œDon’t bother, you’ll get burnt, you’re too little, you’ll never put the fire out.” The hummingbird replied, β€œI’m doing what I can.”

This fighting spirit, this need to do what we can, is the essence of the Islamic attitude to life. Giving of ourselves, giving the smallest amount in charity to the smallest children in need - has greater bearing than we can possibly imagine. When the Quran tells me each atom’s weight of good is significant, it’s not just my antidote to despondency, it makes me feel empowered.

I think of the little hummingbird when I read the words of the Sufi Muslim poet and scholar Rumi, who pointed out: β€œGod has created your wings not to be dormant, as long as you are alive, you must try more and more, to use your wings to show you’re alive.”

Life can be an upwind struggle, some days are better than others, some times are better than others, but I’m determined to make a difference with every beat of my wings, while I still have the strength to fly.

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