Here’s some things I’ve come across this week which I thought might be useful/interesting to pass on. Please add comments at the end if you’ve found the links of interest, I’d love to hear from you and see what you think.

1. Tina (above) at Kitty Kat Cards in Maryland, USA cut her hair off and donated it to make wigs for women who have lost their hair to cancer. How cool is Tina, you go girl!

2. Age Concern and Help the Aged is calling on people to keep an eye out for older family‚ friends and neighbours during the cold weather.  The charity is concerned that the extreme temperatures will leave some older people facing difficulties getting out to buy food and essentials‚ while others will struggle to stay warm. I found a very sad story on the news today about a 90 year old woman slipping in her garden near Barnsley and dying of hypothermia – click here to read (but get the hankies ready). Poor woman.

3. More tissues needed – for the “Letter to my daughter’s other mother” article on the MumsRock blog. I often think about adopting a child (read my blog on it) so this was particularly poignant for me. I had a friend back in Sussex with an absolute angel of a daughter she’d adopted and the mother in this letter reminds me of that child’s birth mother.

4. Carrying on the sad theme with a blog about a tough few months from a twitter friend of mine Sarah of Kookylicious.

5. And let’s not stop there – might as well use the whole box of tissues up. I came across the Most/Least blog this week. Ella is mum to four boys aged 7, 5, 3 and 1. Last February, Ella’s 5 year old son William was diagnosed with FSGS and her family’s lives changed forever.