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Doughnut, the inspiration for my bedtime story<\/p><\/div>\n\nThese mummy bloggers are an enterprising lot – when they\u2019re not re-tweeting the Leveson inquiry or quizzing Nigella Lawson<\/a> about her Christmas plans they\u2019re raising money for charity. Well, Nataliya Delleva is, and congratulations to her for a wizard wheeze she has come up with to raise money for Save the Children.\n\nNataliya who is the mother of four year old girl and blogs as greenkiddie.co.uk<\/a> invited 17 mummy bloggers (yours truly among them) to write a bedtime story for children. The brief was simple – it must start with the words \u201cOnce Upon a Time\u201d and it must be upbeat and give hope to children whose lives were in turmoil that things can and do get better.\n\nThe idea, she says, was to harness the creative energy of the mummy bloggers out there to create something beautiful which would make a great Christmas present for their own and other children, and would also help Save the Children\u2019s work all over the world. \u201cLet\u2019s collaborate in an effort to change the story of those kids, born with the challenge to survive, and help them write together a better story of their life, one that will make them smile,\u201d she said.\n\nSo Katy and I got together to write the story of Doughnut, the Save the Children sniffer dog, and Sofia, the little girl he discovers on a rubbish dump. 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