I hope everyone had a nice Christmas (or Winterval?) and New Year. I did and my brain is now (slowly) creaking back into action after far too much time off work. The only useful thing I did during the break was a couple days volunteering at Manchester’s homeless drop-in project, Lifeshare, which was illuminating, as always.
I have big plans for this year including – fingers crossed – some overseas work. For the time being however I am a bit bogged down with deadlines but thought I’d post one of my favourite news stories from 2007. It is worth a quick read…(click on image):

Talking of homelessness, the controversy surrounding the government’s dubious counting methods rumbles on in this week’s Big Issue in the North. I have previously highlighted it here and here.