Saturday was an amazing day. 225 000 people marching in Edinburgh. 200 000 in Hyde Park. No one can add to what has already been said on the TV, or on radio or in the newspapers.

There were 2 particular moments which I will remember for a while, one shallow and one quite emotional:

1 – Geldof sang “I don’t like Monday’s”. A classic and just as good as I remember from when I was 12!

The second moment is summed up in the report from the Times below:

Then images of wretched starving children filled the screen in London before Geldof ushered onto the stage a striking black figure.

““Who is this beautiful woman?” he asked. “This little girl had 10 minutes to live 20 years ago. Because we did a concert, because we did that, last week she did her agricultural exams at her school in the north Ethiopianian highlands. DonÂ’t let them tell you this doesn’’t work.”

Birhan Woldu, 24, had survived the famine of 20 years before, thanks to Live Aid. Now she clasped the microphone, a vision of possibility. ““Hello from Africa,” she said. “We love you very much.””

Watching the event in my in-laws back garden on a big screen we had set up with a projector, I looked around and I don’t think there was a dry eye in the garden. Adults and children equally were moved. It hit home again what was at stake. the 30 000 is not a number, it is not a simple figure, it is not even a grusome statistic – it is a life; a life that can, and should be, beautiful and full of promise.

Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking we cannot make a difference. If you haven’t done so yet, sign up with Make Poverty History, sign up with Live 8, write to Blair, Brown and your MP. Done all that … then get others too and pray.