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Hello John Palfrey here. Nicknamed Vicar! to those who know me at football. Who do I support? Well I am born and bought up in Sussex so it has to be the Albion. I am married with three grown children who will be remaining back home in Worthing.
In September I am heading to Cambodia where I will be working for a small orphanage in Siem Reap which is home to 35 children and a school to 100 others. I am setting up a marketing project to assist with their fundraising and plan to be away from home for six months, with the exception of a couple of weeks over Christmas.

I will be reporting on my adventures to this blog, and you can find more details, photos etc at my other blog, http://johnstuff.typepad.com.

Settling In

Getting to grips with Khmer life

Landed

Well Singapore Airlines could not have been more helpful when they got the story.

At the mercy of Singapore Airlines

Packing Day, and at least I've have managed to assign myself a full day to ensure I have everything I need. Sadly, despite performing various exercises on weight scales etc. I am still around 10% over my allowance. After having packed and repacked I managed to end up with even more essential stuff, and have now finally decided to throw myself on the mercy of Singapore Airlines.

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Catherine Tate has a very unlikeable character called Geordie Georgie who has a daily bizarre charity to raise money for. It is the same in our office where hardly a day goes by without some sponsorship appeal or other arriving in my inbox. (I have a limit of one donation a week,) So when it comes to my turn to elicit some fundraising I know I have at least got to have a decent ‘hook’ or idea to capture attention.

Tales from the Temples

So just who did leave a small blue sperm whale on the grave of Douglas Adams? That’s what I want to know. It was a lovely tribute to one of Britain’s top comic writers of his generation.