Percy the Pigeon

People who have been following me on Twitter (if you have a twitter account, my username is @yamerias but you can look at my tweets by going to http://www.twitter.com/yamerias if you are not) may have noticed that I follow and retweet someone called @PercythePigeon (again, if you are not a Twitter member, you can look at this member's tweets by going to http://www.twitter.com/PercythePigeon). I thought it might be nice to give a bit of an explination about Percy and the cause that he supports.

Percy The Pigeon is a character who is in the book Matty-boy and the Secret Pigeon Racket written by a talented authoress called Anita Hunt. The story is about a Matty-boy, a boy who lives with foster parents, and he finds a raggedy bundle on the window ledge of what is soon to be his bedroom. The "raggedy bundle" is Percy, who helps him deal with bullying.

I think this is a brilliant idea and as well as the book there is a campaign including Percy on Twitter, he has his own website and there is even a knitting pattern so you can knit your own Percy toy...how cool is that?

Anyways, if you are interested at looking at the Percy The Pigeon site, go to http://www.areyoubeingbullied.com/ and have a look at the ideas behind the story (and you could buy a copy of the book and other various items from thier online store)...or you could download the knitting pattern for Percy The Pigeon!

I fully support this campaign and it is very close to my heart...I was bullied a lot as a child, by kids and also by my father and I felt like there was nobody to turn to and it really got to me a lot, I see now if I had maybe spoken to one of my teachers or even one of my neighbours things could have been so different.

Please have a look at this website, and please support Percy the Pigeon.