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More TV adventures and our Online Petition

Hi everyone. Seems like a good while since I updated the blog, but we’ve had an exciting time over the last week or so.

Firstly we were asked by ITV’s This Morning Programme to go down to London to have a chat with Eamonn and Ruth.

The show was live and was ever so slightly nerve wracking. That stuff doesn’t usually get to me but Eamonn’s got a deep penetrating stare!

Anyhow, here’s the link to the story on the ITV This Morning website

Then, we’ve found that there’s an online petition running to get some action from the council. If you feel strongly enough about the nonsense policies that the council are following then you just need to follow the link to the petition website

For those not fully up to speed with what we’re doing then the BBC Five Live Website has the full story including the initial interview we did with Victoria Derbyshire (who was ace).

Thanks everyone. I’ll update again when i’ve had the next session on the scales at SureSlim.

Best wishes

Damian

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Our adoption – We’ve just got famous (ish)

Hi everyone

Just wanted to let everyone know about our plans to adopt as we’re not able to have kids naturally.

We’ve been told that I’ve got to loose a load of weight before we can progress our application. Our story has been plastered all over the press this week after BBC Five Live did an interview with us.

It seems that we’ve stirred up a whole load of opinion about whether weight matters in parenting. Not like us to be controversial!

Just for the record. The point that we are trying to make is that weight should definately be taken into serious consideration as part of the process, but should not be the only thing, or the thing that stops everything else. Not, as some people have got into their heads that being overweight is OK and it doesnt matter either way.

Anyhow, here’s some links to some of the coverage we’ve had. Please dont laugh at the video’s…

Oh yes, they spelt my name wrong and got my job wrong. Other than that its all pretty good!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7823707.stm

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2122212.ece?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jan/13/adoption-rejected-couple

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/victoriaderbyshire/2009/01/too_fat_to_adopt.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1112844/Youre-fat-adopt-24st-husband-told-health-risks.html

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/01/15/too-fat-to-adopt-a-large-mistake-indeed-115875-21042817/

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