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This year’s Random Acts of Kindness Week was in February so we have missed it for this year. There is a World Kindness Week coming up in November, 13th to 19th, though, and we’ll start preparing for that later on. The www.actsofkindness.org website, albeit American, might be a good starting point if you are interested in reading up about this.

I found that www.fishpond.co.nz has a book for sale called Random Acts of Kindness: 365 Ways To Make the World a Nicer Place by Danny Wallace. “This book contains 365 real random acts of kindness real people have done for real strangers…so read it, learn it, and start making your world the nicer place, today!”
(I myself was wondering if I ever do any RAOK’s, and came up with not a hell of a lot.. Does buying doughnuts to your other half count as one?? So there’s definitely room for LOTS of improvement here!)

Last year I heard that a colleague of ours had received a cruise for two in the Caribbean, or perhaps Mexico, as part of a RAOK promotion! It may have been by the local newspaper, from memory. She and her mother have had lots of health problems and the cruise came at a really good time to cheer them up, although unfortunately the mother cannot make it to the trip now as her health has further deteriorated. A case of the thought counting, this one.

We all have pet hates, right… One of my pet hates, probably number 12,349 or so, would be: Having to listen to someone’s voicemail where they say they are “currently available at the moment”! Pfft. It was the second time I have come across this now and I remain bemused.

I have just started reading another book by Jodi Picoult, she is one of my favourite writers and I thought I would review the book in this blog when I’ve finished it. This one is called The Pact. Picoult’s books can be a bit same-y if read in close succession, but nevertheless I do always really enjoy them. The last one of her books I read was called Keeping Faith, and I just couldn’t put it down, I had to finish the last third of it in one sitting and ended up reading it until 2.30 in the morning one Friday. My team leader at work is also hooked on Picoult’s books (and there are more of us!) and has just supplied me with The Pact which she had read over the weekend. Hmm I shall try and start reading it tonight.

On the subject of my team leader, she (I shall call her Sandy!) is quite a character and really takes care of us, her little team. Sandy always notices when someone is unhappy and last week it happened to be me – but she managed to brighten up my day by buying me flowers! How fantastic, and it worked as I felt instantly better. They were very girly flowers too, bright pink and fuchsia, with even glitter on them! So yes, our Sandy does these Random Acts of Kindness from time to time, and we are quite lucky to have her guiding our team of different and sometimes conflicting personalities. (The other team is quite less lucky, I’d say, but more on that later… perhaps.)