Aug 14, 2014 | ARTicle
By LEIGH ROBINSON Around 1 500 people groups in the world still do not have any portion of the Bible in their native tongue. That number was reduced by one recently for the Makonde people in the far north of Mozambique. Twenty years ago a British couple, Benji...
Aug 10, 2014 | ARTicle
By CAITLIN CLERK Write and rewrite is the theme for this fourth and final Show Boat Tour update. On Monday night I started my piece like this: “I don’t think I deserve to love Dublin. I haven’t seen much or done much. I haven’t had the...
Aug 1, 2014 | ARTicle
By CAITLIN CLERK I can’t help but feel a little sad as we leave Cardiff behind us. I feel like each city we stop at gets better and better. Cardiff is the home of Show Boat’s sponsor, the Wales Millennium Centre. And what a fabulous host! The Donald...
Jul 15, 2014 | ARTicle
By CAITLIN CLERK We have just left Manchester. I am sitting in the front of the bus (because I can put my feet up here) next to Straight-steering Steve. Steve’s seat doesn’t bob up and down like David-the-Driver’s did. He is far less the bus...
Jul 8, 2014 | ARTicle
By CAITLIN CLERK The last time I left the country I was crowd-funded by a couple of hundred people who were all anxious to see how I would spend their hard-earned money in New York. There was quite a lot of pressure to be awesome from the 1st of January to the...
Jun 19, 2014 | ARTicle
The most common bullying experience is being taunted or ridiculed for being “different” in some way. I’m the poster child for this. For most of my life, I’ve been a bully magnet. I’ve heard every imaginable nasty comment about my lack of limbs. Cruel jokes. Even...