Nominate someone for a New Year's Honour!
(The Queen, photographed at the moment she was told she wouldn't have to attend this year's Royal Variety Performance. The iPM New Year's Honour is not in any way associated with the Honour Her Majesty is involved in)
We've already had lots of nominations for an iPM New Year's Honour! In tomorrow's programme at 5.30 we'll mention some of the names. But you STILL HAVE TIME to nominate someone.
iPM is the programme that starts with its listeners. Their ideas and suggestions are what make our programme. This Christmas we're taking that one stage further.
We want to know who YOU would nominate for an iPM New Year's Honour. Ideally, someone who's not well known...they're covered in the official New Year's list. We want to hear about someone YOU know who deserves wider recognition.
Just email us their details and yours, and tell us why you want to nominate them. Our email address is iPM@bbc.co.uk. Please put HONOUR in the subject line. You'll need to make your nomination by midnight on Sunday 28th December.
There's no prize: just the honour of iPM making a fuss over the winning nominee. The iPM production team will choose from the names put forward and its decision will be final. No arguing!
That email address again: ipm@bbc.co.uk
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I feel a strange urge to nominate DIWyman, simply for cheering me up so often with his posts to the PM blog.
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I'm carrying this over from the Glass Box having been tricked by Lady Sue's comment into thinking I was on this thread! (Perhaps Lady Sue should do the same?)
I like Lady Sue's nomination - and she is so right about home carers, but Pauline's case emboldens me to put forward another name: Flora.
I won't give her second name yet, because she might feel her privacy is being invaded, but this lady, who is in her eighties, has for years been devoting all her spare time to the needs of others. For many years she had living with her an elderly gentleman, to whom she acted as an informal carer until he died, and in the meantime she gave up all her remaining time to two projects, one in Petworth and the other in Midhurst. The Petworth one is a Friendship club for elderly people, run by the elderly for the elderly, i.e. the more able helping the less able. It opens every week day and some week ends, both mornings and afternoons, with different activities every session. These are decided democratically by the members themselves. There is tea and coffee on tap, and on Fridays they meet to have fish and chips. The patron of the Friendship Club is Lady Egremont, and the Egremonts host events for the Friendship Club at Christmas in Petworth House. (Actually, Lady E is a lovely person and genuinely kind and down to earth).
The other project that Flora helps run, in Midhurst, is again a place run by elderly people for elderly people, called Rosemary's Parlour. It again aims to provide some support and company for the elderly within the community, opening every day and being a 'drop in' where people can meet up and share a cuppa.
Flora doesn't think she is elderly. If she were to be judged by her soul, I would say she is extremely young. If she were to be judged by her heart, I would say she has one of the most generous and humble of any person I have ever met, and I think she is a true hero.
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A doff to the toff.
I nominate Edward Stourton for his espousal of the language, now falling out of fashion in its land of origin - European English. Used with facility and invention by top European diplomats, government advisors, opinion formers and thinkers, it is a language much abused and bowdlerised by native English speakers. The more common form, American English, continues to gain ground among the lazy and sloppy.
Not so with Stourton, whose well constructed sentences are spoken with a well-modulated clarity that must be the envy of other broadcasters. They are well constructed both in the
sense of being grammatically correct and in calling on a wide range of imagery.
Not for Stourton the fumble with the words "secretary", "deteriorate" and "Arctic", nor with a confusion of adverb and adjective. There is no confusion either between the verbs"buy" and "bring" so that the past tense of "bring" is rendered as "bought".
Nor, for him, the ill-mannered interruption in the course of an interview, even though the results of his interviews are every bit as revealing, just as tenacious, and much more civilized.
The 'Today' programme has a very high opinion of itself. I think it is O.K. - not as important as all that, but more often than not, informative. A good mix of presenter types is essential to its survival; "good radio" is not what the professionals think it is, poor sad self delusionists that they are. "Good radio" is what we, the listeners, think it is.
The 'Today' programme will be the lesser without Edward Stourton; I nominate him as deserving of the iPM honour.
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Resubmitting due to the lunacy of moderation:
I would like to nominate Flora.
I won't give her second name yet, but this lady, who is in her eighties, has for years been devoting all her spare time to the needs of others. For many years she had living with her an elderly gentleman, to whom she acted as an informal carer until he died, and in the meantime she gave up all her remaining time to two projects, one in Petworth and the other in Midhurst. The Petworth one is a Friendship club for elderly people, run by the elderly for the elderly, i.e. the more able helping the less able. It opens every week day and some week ends, both mornings and afternoons, with different activities every session. These are decided democratically by the members themselves. There is tea and coffee on tap, and on Fridays they meet to have fish and chips. The patron of the Friendship Club is Lady Egremont, and the Egremonts host events for the Friendship Club at Christmas in Petworth House. (Actually, Lady E is a lovely person and genuinely kind and down to earth).
The other project that Flora helps run, in Midhurst, is again a place run by elderly people for elderly people, called Rosemary's Parlour. It again aims to provide some support and company for the elderly within the community, opening every day and being a 'drop in' where people can meet up and share a cuppa.
Flora doesn't think she is elderly. If she were to be judged by her soul, I would say she is extremely young. If she were to be judged by her heart, I would say she has one of the most generous and humble of any person I have ever met, and I think she is a true hero.
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Go for it Chris (1). I'll second that!
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Are posthumous awards allowed?
My mother collected enough money (flag days, appeals) to have the first Old People's Friendship Club built in Chiswick.
She used to stand outside Goodbands, in all weathers in Chiswick High Road. Maybe you saw her a few times on your way to the City Barge.
And she used to beg money from every rich person who made themselves prominent in the Borough.
Some were generous. Charitable giving is cheaper than proper redistributive taxation.
Some literally spat in her face. Their money was theirs. So the poor were cold and ragged. (There were money and food distributions at the Club). So the old were lonely with no place to meet. So what.
Anyway, let the dead lie buried undisturbed.
I nominate John Kay.
Who?
John Kay. He's the man whom Mervyn King consults when he thinks he might blow his nose.
Kay says, today (and it would be worth covering it on PM today. Drop a couple of plugs for iPM and you'll have time), that the finance houses don't need any more regulation.
Bankers calling for it are 'like burglars complaining the police should have stopped them.'
Now Kay and Mervyn King are like the Tweedles and a policy pronouncement like that is to all intents and purposes a BoE press release.
We should decide AGAINST new laws if the burglars say it would have stopped them?
It's not burglars who get damaged from theft. It's us.
So I nominate him for the Edgie Mare iPM annual 'Talking Tosh Award'
If we can get it back off White Rat.
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Hyperboloid@3
Big Sister@4
You both choose excellent candidates.
I'll share my vote (for what that's worth) between them.
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Moy ozzy.
(Or 'moi aussi' to those wot can spik Froglish.)
;o)
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Should have said... I was agreeing with Piper at (7)!
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With only 1 award to offer it's going to be a very very difficult choice
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I hope, this person DOESN'T qualify for the iPM award.
The Bravery and Love and Dedication (sorry, the latter word is singularly pathetic in relation to what she did) will, I hope, ensure much, much higher (and unfortunatly) posthumous honours than we can think of, are bestowed.
At last, her story is emerging but why a 60-year interval..?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/jane-haining-scotlands-schindler-1206397.html
"But the 47-year-old refused, saying: "If these children need me in the days of sunshine, how much more do they need me in the days of darkness?...""
"She admitted to all but political activity and was deported to Auschwitz, tattooed with the number 79467, along with some of her wards. She was gassed in August that year..."
A wonderful woman. A heart-wrenching story...
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Gosh Charlie, you have a point there. Reading that reminds me that there is also good in the world.
Reminds me too of the Minister who married my parents, Donald Caskie 'the Tartan Pimpernel'. He smuggled 2,000 Allied servicemen out of France during WWII.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Caskie
... sorry I don't know how to do the clever html linky stuff!
Isn't it good to know there are so many individuals who deserve an award? I look forward to finding out who eventually wins it.
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Fifi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Caskie
"... sorry I don't know how to do the clever html linky stuff!"
Fifi, clearly, you do now and good stuff it is too...
Maybe, "we" need a bumper award year where ALL of those we now know of, who've done such GREAT things for "us", can be recognised...
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Gosh, you just paste it in! (as long as there's no naughty ampersands anyway)
And all this time, I thought everyone was being so much cleverer than I!
While I'm feeling so brave, here's another, sent to me by an American Sufi friend. Interview with a Sufi saint. My chum says:
"As you hear in the interview, he came from Ceylon (Sri Lanka). He is a Saint in the Sufi tradition, which encompasses the truth of spirituality and "religion" over all the religious traditions, hence he speaks to Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, etc....
"The gentleman interviewing him through translators at the Fellowship in Philadelphia is Lex Hixon, my first spiritual guide and host of a radio show for many years that covered "comparative religion", called In the Spirit.
"Lex Hixon went on to become a very powerful spiritual guide, teacher and presence, having been initiated into the mystical religious traditions within the Eastern Orthodox Church, Buddhism, Judaism, Hindusim and Islam."
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The elderly saint's voice is noticeably more sprightly and animated than that of his interpreter!
;o)
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Would the moderators be kind enough to either reinstate my comment at 2 or send me an email to tell me why they have removed it?
Thank you!
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Charlie: I was in a bit of a hurry last night and hadn't time to read your link, but this morning I have done so and would like to thank you for sharing that with us all - I had missed the story and never heard of this woman whose heroism and selflessness are truly humbling.
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