It starts on twitter and involves books, a bear and a happy ending.
When I first sold my soul to twitter I started following a man called Greg Stekelman aka @themanwhofell. He told extraordinary tales with pictures in single tweets. He doesnt do twitter any more but I really hope he will eventually return.
One day I learned that a man in a book shop in a place called Wood Green was publishing a very limited edition book featuring the work of @themanwhofell, "London Tales" I new I had to have one. I followed the book shop on twitter (
Somehow, whilst following the bookshop and the man I started following @bear_faced_lady and got to talking about stuff. We both suffer from depression and Tara, as that is her name, was a great help for me through a lot of my lowest times.
She`s lovely. See.
A while ago Tara met a bloke called Ben. They fell in love without realising it then got married. They don't have a lot of money so a honeymoon was out of the question. They didn`t care. They had each other.
Simon at the bookshop had an idea. As Tara and Ben were such lovely folk he thought he would surprise them with a honeymoon! He chatted with Tara`s best friend Steff (@princessofVP) and she set up a paypal account for all their friends to chip in a couple of quid to help.
Once the money had added up a little they decided to stage a mock "tweetup" in the bookshop to hand over the money. £500 at this point but still climbing.
I had to go!
Anyway. Here's Tara(on the left) and Ben just after they were given their surprise. I was crying and smiling like a gurning idiot at this point.
It was an amazing day. So...if you are one of those people who moans about twitter being stupid and full of horrible people you are obviously doing it wrong.
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