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On showbiz and fishy whiffs

By Jim Griffin
August 13, 2009 at 5:31 pm

We’re not short of variety in the Red Cross.

In my four and a half years I’ve found myself on the production line of a wheelchair factory learning how to put the things together, schmoozing with Scotland’s first minister at a reception for responders to the attack on Glasgow airport and playing a terrorist setting off a dirty bomb for a police training video. I’ve been an overdosed drug user for a trauma management course, a first aid demonstrator at the UK School Games and a blogger with a pretty lousy attendance record.

Today I found myself on a local radio station talking about our need for volunteers in North Lanarkshire. I had my showbiz voice on, my sequinned bow tie glimmering, my jazz hands jazzing. We need volunteers, I said. We want to help more people, I said. My autobiography’s out in the spring, I said. Really, it’s hard to do justice to the glamour of the thing.

An hour later I found myself sniffing the back seat of the transport service pool car because a volunteer complained it smelt like a kipper.

Like I say, there’s variety.

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