I don’t quite know how to describe Friday night/Saturday morning or my emotions and how I felt. I have posted a couple of pictures here and have posted the rest in my Flikr album for those of you who are interested. It was a privilege to be there and as we were there it felt as if we were doing something of substance, all of us were united in our desire to make history.

I have seen various reports. Some say 7000 were there, others say 25/30 000. It’s amazing to think there was such a great discrepency. I only know that I walk home most Saturdays with 8000 fans and we were at least treble that on the march on saturday morning.

The night was a night of queues. ll venues were pcked and hard to get into. Make Poverty History had seriously under-estimated the number of people that would come. We did not mind as a little hardship for us was not out of place as we campaigned for those in dire, unjust and un-necessary circumstances 24/7.

The atmosphere was great. All ages were present and I will remember for a long time the extreme in noise in Whitehall at midnight and at 7.00 am. The shouting and calls for fair trade were unbelievable. I do not think i have heard anything so loud since being at Wembley. At midnight there was a minutes silence. On the twelf chime of Big Ben the thousands became silent. We stood and pondered the fact that thousands were dying. Some weeped silently. After a minute the cry was both powerful and deafening. The cry of normal people with a demand for change.

The conversations and scenes from the night will stay with me for a very long time. The young people we went with were excellent. Some of them danced. soe got involved in art workshops.Thery made up songs and even at one stage started a Mexican wave – that was when they were not singing worship songs to those around them!

Afterwards when I heard the first news report which estimated 30 000 people involved I had a horrible picture. If that was the case then each one of us represented a child that had died that day. 30 000 is a quick number to say, but I can tell you it is a grossly obscene number to die unnecessarily – even if only 15 000 of us were there, the number of people is an unbelievable sight.

I hope our government will take note of the numbers there and continue to push for change. Let’s pray that others, like Bush, can be influenced to change policy too.