Yesterday tweeters from all around South Africa met up to donate blankets at various spots around the country for the Twitter Blanket Drive which had been promoted using the #TBD hashtag.  Melanie Minnaar is the tweeter behind the event, and this was the second year that she organised this event in time for the coldest winter nights.  I was determined to make it this year, as last year, a charity that I’d done work with had been the recipient of some of the donations and I wasn’t able to attend.

I went to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Rosebank last night with my kids to donate our blankets… I’d bought 10 baby blankets instead of the adult blankets that everyone had been talking about during the day.  We didn’t stay very long because the kids hadn’t eaten yet (in fact I wish I’d known that there were going to be talks by the charities)… and they were running riot in the hotel after only about 20 minutes. But I did manage to meet quite a few people that I’ve been chatting to for years, but never actually met in real life ) the sign of a good tweet up!

I’m dying to find out how many blankets were actually collected, but from the looks of the pile in the hotel it was an enormous amount well done to the whole team that put this year’s event together

I was stoked to finally meet Norwin and Ledlet and their son JB (the little blonde boy in the blankets).  If you don’t read his blog, you should, JB is most amazing.

Haha and Walter Pike did some planking on the blankets

Even DJ Fresh was in the mix…