First of all, remember this guy?

It’s Lee Sergeant from Quit Your Day Job, the chap who’s growing a Magnum P.I. style mustache in order to raise money and awareness for men’s health issues.

I mentioned back in this post that we’d be popping in on him occasionally in order to see how he’s doing. So lets take a look.

Yea gods! He looks like a cut price Burt Reynolds! Quick…move on to the next one.

Arrrggg!!

Lee has pledged that for any further donations he receives he’ll dress up in even more costumes. I know he’s got an Iron Man helmet so fingers crossed he goes for that one as it covers his entire head.

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The second thing I wanted to mention was that on Friday I was nominated and accepted as a legal trustee of The Joseph Salmon Trust. This basically means that I will serve on the governing body of the charity and share joint responsibility for it being solvent, well-run, and that it delivers the charitable outcomes for the benefit of the public.

It’s a big responsibility, and I’m deeply honoured to have been asked.

Just in case you’ve not been here before I should explain that The Joseph Salmon Trust is a charity set up by my friends Neil and Rachael in the memory of their son who died aged just three years old. The Trust supports parents who have lost a child by providing financial assistance to those who need it most. This may be to help with funeral costs or to allow the self employed a break from work while they come to terms with their loss. You can donate here (you didn’t think I’d let a post like this go by without plugging the donate button do you?).

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And finally, the good folks over at Qtag (who very generously donated £100 to the Trust) have asked me to do one last thing for them.

Their sister site, clothes2order.com, are currently running a weekly “TweeShirts” competition where (UK based) people tweet them a message (@clothes2order) that they think would look good on a T-shirt. Every Friday afternoon they select a winner and print and deliver their t-shirt free of charge.

I’ve taken a look at the previous winners and I must admit I’m pretty convinced the people I follow could do a lot better.

For example, scrolling through my tweetdeck I found these these little nuggets from the last day or so:

• @binarydad Would wish American followers a happy Thanksgiving, but they didn’t say a thing to me about St Swithin’s Day. So fuck ‘em.
• @outnumberedisme My hands smell like Hot Dogs and Onions. Pretty sure that’s not gonna make my wife horny.
• @tysdaddy My daughter said she wants “heat-vision” goggles for Christmas, because “you can see farts with them!”
• @swhittle Sometimes I’m such an idiot I half expect them to redraw the whole IQ curve.
• @downwithpants Seriously lady, if you smoke a ton of perfume will not cover it up. You just smell like a nicotine flower that bloomed all over my office.
• @djkirkby ‘Bajamawammers’ is now my new favourite word of all time.
• @singleparentdad It is true I do like to handle the massive ones, at any given opportunity.

The contest currently seems rather under-subscribed (just type @clothes2order into the twitter search box to see other entries), so anyone entering has a pretty good chance of getting a free T-shirt out of it.

Of course if @big_ben_clock entered they’d win every single time.

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This is the month traditionally associated with NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month), where people from all over the blogoshere pledge to post an entry every single day of November. This used to be an all pervasive event on the internet, but since the organizers went a bit mad with power and announced that every month was NaBloPoMo it seems to have lost momentum somewhat. Off the top of my head I only know of Mark from Views from the bike shed who is doing it this year. But that’s ok with me, as anything that encourages Mark to post more often can only be a good thing.

I am vaguely tempted to have a go at NaBloPoMo myself. I enjoyed it last time I did it, although it got a little wearing towards the end. As it stands I haven’t actually missed a day this month yet, so I think I’ll just see how it goes.

Of course some other lunatics, such as Preseli Mags are actually attempting to write an entire novel this November as part of NaNoWriMo. I’m guessing the men in white coats will be knocking on their doors any time soon.

But none of these people are doing anything as magnificent, heroic, or public spirited as Mr Lee Sargent from Quit Your Day Job. Because, ladies and gentleman, Lee Sargent is on a one man quest to bring back the Magnum P.I. style moustache.

In the month of November Lee has pledged to go from this:

To this:

What-a-guy.

And what’s more, as if singlehandedly returning Tom Selleck’s ‘tash to the streets of Brisbane isn’t enough, Lee’s going to be raising funds for a very worthy cause as he does so.

Movember is an annual, month-long celebration of the mustache, highlighting men’s health issues, specifically prostate cancer and depression in men. Close to 3,000 men die of prostate cancer each year in Australia alone and one in eight men will experience depression in their lifetime – many of whom don’t seek help. The Momember Foundation puts money into research, treatment programs, and awareness raising; doing valuable and much needed work on a global scale.

So why not head over to http://au.movember.com/mospace/204841/ and make a donation to a very worthy cause. You might as well – it’s only Australian dollars so it’s not like it’s real money. I mean look at it:

I’ve seen more convincing currency in a monopoly set. I bet it’s got bloody koalas on it somewhere.

We’re going to pop in on Lee’s efforts throughout this month here on the blog, and you just know I’m going to keep nagging you until you give something. so you might as well just get it out of the way now and sling a few dollars his way. Go on. You know you want to.

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