Red nose day 2009

This Friday (13th March) is Red Nose Day 2009. My kids have been excited about it all week, and no-one has nicked the red nose off my car - at least not yet...

I was interested to see this item about red nose day on the Oxfam web site:

Since the last Red Nose Day in 2007, Oxfam has received more than £5.5 million in grants from Comic Relief. The latest grant is helping cotton farmers in Mali tap into organic and Fairtrade markets so that they can get a better price for what they grow and so build a more secure future for their families and communities. This support is vital in a country where one in three people depend on cotton for income and 80% of them live on less than a dollar a day.
At least 70p from the sale of every Nose goes to Comic Relief.

Too late to get your red nose by mail order from the Oxfam catalogue now. (You'll have to pick your nose in person - sorry, couldn't resist that...). Oxfam shops have them, as do Sainsbury's supermarkets.