The role of Squidoo Angels has changed slightly for this new intake of Angels. I’m lucky to be accepted again because I love the chance to bless outstanding lenses. We now have to bless a minimum of five lenses a day for about a month. At that time, new Angels will be appointed although we can re-apply.

Today I blessed a mixture of new and old lenses. They are:

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My computer went wrong about ten two weeks ago and I didn’t get it back until Thursday last week. I hate being without a computer. I used my partner’s to check e-mail and a couple of forums but, of course, he didn’t want me spending hours on it.

When I got it back, not only was the fault fixed, it had also been upgraded and more memory added as well as having XP changed for Windows 7. I wish I was brave enough and techie enough to try Linux but I’m not so have to use Microsoft. Hopefully, Windows 7 has been out for long enough to have some of the bugs fixed although it seems that most people have found it relatively trouble free – not like Vista.

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Santa Squid from Squid Art Too by Tagsforkids

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!

I’m finishing this year feeling I’ve accomplished some things that I really wanted to do. There have been some disappointments and sad times too – just like many years, in fact.

At the beginning of the year, I was making very few new lenses on Squidoo. I’d become a Giant in October 2008 by making 50+ lenses. After that I just lost inspiration for writing. I’d start a new lens, think about it, then delete it because I couldn’t think of more to write or I was bored by the subject. Worse still, I sometimes finished a lens, read it the next day, decided it was rubbish and so deleted it. Although I made a few lenses, they were a struggle.

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Most of us cannot understand how anyone can be so evil that they would buy and sell children in the sex trade.  How paedophiles can brutalise children for their own selfish gratification is beyond any understanding and certainly any kind of forgiveness. If I had my way, they’d be castrated without anaesthesia. I’d probably have them cast out into a vast wilderness as well, to fend for themselves, far beyond any kind of help.

We can’t wave a magic wand to abolish this evil trade but we can help to fight it. Find out what you can do – read Best of Child Trafficking on Twitter and see how people on Twitter are are getting together to support the charity Born2Fly – read about it here.

Find out why 09-09-09 is an important date for your diary and for children all over the world then use your own Twitter and other social networks to spread the word.

Blackcurrants - A Superfood?

Yesterday I published my 100th Squidoo lens – Blackcurrants – A Superfood? I can hardly believe that I have produced so many lenses in just a couple of months.

When I committed myself to bringing my total number of  lenses up to 100 by June 30th back at the end of April, I never really thought I could do it. I had to produce 23 lenses in just two months. That sounded daunting, to put it mildly.

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