I love... Mr Honkus (and Comic Relief)

Mr "Honkus" was my true companion yesterday. He stuck close by me for the majority of the day and, although he made it difficult to breathe, he created laughter, which in turn creates happiness, which is ultimately what this blog is all about.

Ok, so Mr "Honkus" is not really my new best friend or my new side kick or my new boy friend, but yesterday he was my.... Red Nose!! Yes, yesterday the whole country got together and raised money for Comic Relief, or Red Nose Day (hence Mr "Honkus"). Comic Relief is a major charity in the UK and the wearing of a red nose shows your support.

Each year Comic Relief bring out a new style of red nose and this year the style was monsters. There was three to choose from; Honkus, Captain Conk and Chucklechomp, and they only cost £1.

From the title of this post, you may have guessed that my favourite is Honkus!

Comic Relief is all about doing something funny (hence the "Comic" Relief) to raise money for the much less fortunate. A television programme is streamed live onto our T.V. sets showing a great array of comedy spectaculars, with most of them including famous people making themselves look rather ridiculous. But, we forgive our famous idols because they are helping not only to raise money for the less fortunate, but also to bring awareness to the fact that there is always something worse happening to someone else.

Watching the numerous hours of comedy sketches, and the horrific scenes filmed in places such as poverty stricken Africa, really drums in that us "Westerners" really do have it easy. Yes, we feel our lives are difficult sometimes, we worry about minor issues such as traffic jams and the rain, but at least we have clean running water, we have enough food and we have enough money to ensure fatal, but easy to treat, diseases do not exist in our countries. We have clean hospitals to ensure that new babies are born safely and diseases and illnesses are treated efficiently. We take all these "luxuries" for granted, when really we should feel extremely lucky, because some people have nothing, and when I say nothing, I mean nothing: no water, no food.

I apologise that this may not be one of my happiest of posts, but, although the images shown on Comic Relief are terribly distressing, they also make me aware that I am one of the lucky ones. It makes me realise that there are people much worse off than me, and in reality, I have nothing to complain about. I think it's important that when we feel down or upset about things, that we take just a minute or two to think about people in this world who have nothing. This simple thought is enough to make you realise that, yes, life is hard sometimes, but it could most certainly be a whole lot worse.

So to keep up all smiling I will leave you with a few pictures of what Honkus got up to yesterday...

  

Did you get up to anything funny for money yesterday? I would love to hear all the funny stories.