Chris' Children In Need Auctions
Today Chris auctions off Henley Regatta, Spice Girls, Carfest and Dolly Parton packages to raise money for Children In Need.
It's the fourth day of Chris' amazing auctions, with money-can't-buy experiences up for grabs all in aid of 大象传媒 Children In Need.
Today you can bid for a Carry On Camping at Carfest package - getting VIP treatment at either Carfest North or Carfest South in 2019 for your family.
Then there's the Working 9 To 5 package, where one bidder will get a pair of tickets to see 9 To 5 The Musical in the West End, meet Dolly Parton herself and fly to Dollywood Theme Park in Tennessee.
Also going under the hammer, four lucky couples will be going to the Henley Royal Regatta next July, all hosted by Olympian, James Cracknell.
And last but not least, there's the chance to Spice Up Your Life and bid to get VIP treatment to watch Spice Girls at one of their sold-out Wembley Stadium shows in 2019, including the chance to meet the girls and watch them perform from the side of stage.
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Music Played
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Robbie Williams
Millennium
- (CD Single).
- Chrysalis.
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Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames
Get Away
- 20 Beat Classics.
- Polydor.
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Jonas Blue, Liam Payne & Lennon Stella
Polaroid
- (CD Single).
- Virgin EMI.
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Spice Girls
Wannabe
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Bruno Mars
Finesse (Remix) (feat. Cardi B)
- (CD Single).
- Atlantic.
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Dire Straits
Money For Nothing
- Sultans Of Swing - Best Of Dire Straits.
- Vertigo.
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Shirley Bassey
Kiss Me, Honey Honey, Kiss Me
- (Single).
- Philips.
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Take That
Out Of Our Heads
- Odyssey.
- Polydor.
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Spiller
Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (feat. Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor)
- (CD Single).
- Positiva.
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The Beatles
I Want To Hold Your Hand
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Spice Girls
Stop
- Spice Girls - Spiceworld.
- Virgin.
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Jamie Cullum
Love Is In The Picture
- (CD Single).
- Island.
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The Jacksons
Blame It On The Boogie
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Dolly Parton
9 to 5
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Clean Bandit
Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)
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Take That
Greatest Day
- (CD Single).
- Polydor.
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Pause For Thought
From comedian & writer Paul Kerensa:
My desk has never been cleaner. My socks are all paired, my books have been alphabetised and my pencils are dangerously sharp. Why? I鈥檝e got a tax return to do 鈥� anything鈥檚 better than facing that shoebox of receipts.
As a self-employed, coffee-shop-hopping freelancer, I鈥檓 told to keep every receipt pertaining to work. Hot drinks, work-based snacks, research materials (alright, magazines and cinema tickets) 鈥� whatever鈥檚 helped fuel a book or a script. And no, writing a Pause For Thought about a trip to Majorca doesn鈥檛 make flights tax-deductible, it turns out.
But once started, pathetic as it sounds, I鈥檝e found myself reminiscing over receipts. Fondly recalling meals I had a year ago. 鈥淎h, that little coffee shop before that gig in Bristol鈥� Ooh, that Liverpool all-you-can-eat buffet 鈥� Oh, that three-course dinner before going onstage, then nearly falling asleep at the mic due to the bloated sugar rush.鈥�
A year of my life, represented by papery reminders of things consumed. I hope it doesn鈥檛 entirely sum me up. But what do I have to show for it? Maybe it鈥檚 too simplistic to ask if I needed that latte, that bit of cake. But the wider story can be quite telling.
Jesus said, 鈥淲here your treasure is, there your heart will be also.鈥� My heart鈥檚 clearly in a heap of caffeine 鈥� probably beating like a drumroll. But our treasure isn鈥檛 just money. Writer Rick Warren explained: 鈥淗ere鈥檚 how you know what鈥檚 important to people: Look at their calendar, look at their bank statement.鈥�
If we鈥檝e got a new passion, we find time and enthusiasm, when we thought we鈥檇 run dry. In exhausted modern lives, it means digging deep, finding new energy and resources. Call it 鈥榚motional fracking鈥�.
We feel spent, skint, running late, days full. But when I鈥檓 staring at receipts in caffeinated nostalgia, I recall not only when I justified that nice dessert, but when I left that caf茅, and walked past that homeless teenager, their hands in pockets keeping the cold out, my hands in pockets keeping my wallet in.
Digging deeper, reaching out, leaving people better than when we found them 鈥� that鈥檚 living. Children In Need isn鈥檛 just the name of a charity. It鈥檚 lower-case as well as upper-case: those children, in need, of our hard-earned, quickly-spent-on-coffee resources. And maybe when we look back at where we鈥檝e put our treasure, we鈥檒l remember our heart is there too.
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