cancer fundraising
The support over the last couple of days for the Bowelbabe Teddy Bears has been truly amazing, and exceeded anything that I could possibly have hoped for. The kindness and generosity of people has been incredibly special, something that I will never forget. It mirrors the support for the Bowelbabe Fund nationally, and Deborah quite
The news about the deterioration in Deborah James’s health is utterly devastating. The love and high regard that she is held in by so many people has never been in doubt and the incredible sum raised for the Bowelbabe Fund she has set up during its first 24 hours is testament to just how loved
After what has seemed like an eternity since last summer, today I discarded my dark working attire and got out the bright summer shirts. So uplifting to feel summery 😊 The unit is still pretty chilly especially in the mornings, so the fleeces and jacket are still with me for a while longer. Oh and
My absolutely stunning rhododendron in full bloom this year. Given to me by Mum a long time ago it continues to flourish every year. It’s in a half barrel pot, well it has burst part of the barrel! However, it’s too big to put anywhere else in the garden and it seems to love its
A brilliant evening at The Star in Guildford seeing Billy Liberator & The Orbiteers. This was another step back into going to see live music for me post lockdowns. Once again it served as a reminder just how much I have missed live music over the last two years, and really how watching music live
This morning I was out of the door quite early, so I managed to stop for a few minutes on my way to work to take this photo of rapeseed between Reading and Henley. I’ve been meaning to do this all week, as I think the sights of rapeseed fields at this time of the
Remembering Deborah James, who I was fortunate enough to meet on this day in 2017. Debs, a mum to Grace, sadly died of bowel cancer on July 27th 2017. We came into contact on social media in 2015 and we stayed in regular contact. Debs was one of the first people to agree to be
Why am I posting a photo from back in 2019 when the curls were out in full force… Well tonight I had one of those experiences that I just have to share. My next door neighbour had taken in a package for me from the Royal Mail, so he knocked on my door to hand
Department S was the first small independent band that I got into and I discovered them before the band achieved commercial success with their one chart success song Is Vic There? As a young teenager I discovered them on night-time Radio 1. Back in the 1980s Maidenhead had a really good independent record shop called
When I began writing The Record after Mum’s death in 2016 the first thing I decided was to approach the bowel cancer community to support the book. I didn’t want the book to be purely about bowel cancer, but I was not going to shy away from the subject matter either. After all I had just lost my mum to this awful disease, I was dedicating the book to her memory, and I set out with purpose of producing a book that would raise funds for Bowel Cancer UK.
