Sitting watching the news this evening and Richard and I heard that tell-tale scrabbling noise from the chimney breast that tells you a bird has got stuck down there.

Thankfully the gas supply to the fire in the living room has already been disconnected, so we didn’t have to wait for the man from corgi.

So we (by “we” I mean Richard) cracked on with operation bird rescue and managed to work out how to remove the fireplace.

After some waiting the bird finally worked it’s way to semi-freedom.

It was a bloomin’ crow! We were expecting a sparrow or something, not a whacking great crow!

The poor beauty was so startled it flew head first into the wall, and then had to sit for about 10 minutes. After that I was able to wrap him in a throw and carry him outside, at which point he took wing, safe and sound.

Now we’re left with the clean-up and quite a lot of adrenaline in the old bloodstream. Having a startled crow fly out of the chimney straight at your head is something of an eye opener, I can tell you! But it looks like the (not so) little guy came to no harm, so it’s a happy, if messy ending :-)

Recently I’ve had cause to contact social networking site Bebo due to an old profile which claims to represent my company, Mojo Media Ltd (under UK law use of the term LTD has specific meaning).

Naturally I was keen to have the profile amended or deleted so as not to cause confusion for anyone searching on my brand name and I used Bebo’s contact page to ask them how to proceed. I fully expected that getting the changes I requested would take time, as they would have to ascertain that I had authority for the company name in question. What I didn’t expect was to experience the worst customer service I’ve ever had to endure.
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I’ve just posted my thoughts on how to tackle the reform of MP expenses and some very interesting (and surprising) comparisons of expenditure by party on the new London politics site, Liberal London.

We’d love to hear your views on the scandal and how you’d reform the system.

After many, many months of work – we’ve finally launched Mojo Media, our new search marketing and online PR company!

There’s lots of things that I’m really pleased with, but I’m most proud of our agreement to support the World Land Trust. We are donating £50 for every new client that joins us (enough to protect an acre of threatened habitat and it’s population) and a further £25 for every month they stay.

We have also worked hard to get our carbon emissions as low as a limbo-dancer’s back pocket, we now produce less than a tonne of CO2 in a year!

There’s lots of good stuff to come, and I’ll try to keep you up to date with the latest developments as they happen! In the meantime, I’m intending to enjoy a relaxing Easter with lots of Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, Mythbusters and chocolate bunnies.

Have a great holiday everyone!

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