cancer fundraising
My local post office in Hambleden, and today a strange, but quite lovely thing occurred. The post office is 5 minutes from work and I have been coming to the shop for 20 years now, ever since we moved the business out to Medmenham. Of course over time staff come and go, but invariably they
Today’s post was a toss up between kindness and loneliness. In the end I thought my thoughts on my loneliness can wait for another time, especially when I consider how many people are going through so much harder times than me. The bad news on television and fed to us by the media is relentless.
Tonight I treated myself to a proper alcoholic beer. My first drink in 21 months! I’ve always said that I would have a drink when I felt like it, and tonight for no real reason, apart from it being the end of a warm summer’s day, I fancied a cold beer. It’s Rebellion Blonde from
A slightly different music story today. I will be honest in that I am not a fan of the ukulele instrument. Today a slightly senior gentleman came to work to pick up some scrap cardboard I said he could have. He was a musician and had a vintage Australian bass guitar, I think a Maton,
Kindness plays such a big part in my life these days. Time and time again I witness wonderful acts of kindness, and today it once again made my day. The recent release of the Laura Lou teddy bears supporting Laura Hopkinson’s Go Fund Me page led to my American friend Lisa asking me if she
Today the Laura Lou teddy bear found its voice. I’m sure she will have a few more things to say over the coming days ❤ These special bears are raising funds for Laura Hopkinson’s Go Fund Me page. Laura, who has stage 4 incurable bowel cancer, was recently diagnosed with 9 brain mets after having
My first ever pair of prescription sunglasses! Perfect timing in this insane heat. When I last updated my glasses, only a couple of years ago during lockdown, I switched back from varifocals to normal glasses. My reasoning at the time was that my income had dramatically dropped and I couldn’t justify the cost. Also that
Today I launched the Laura Lou teddy bears which are supporting my friend Laura Hopkinson, who has stage 4 bowel cancer. Since her diagnosis in 2018, Laura has had things extremely tough to put it mildly, simply trying to stay alive, including the brutal hipec surgery during the pandemic. Recently, just when things were starting
It’s now four years since I did my skydive for Bowel Cancer UK. It’s coming up for 10 years since I began fundraising, and looking back on this now it really was bonkers! Without doubt the scariest thing I have ever done in my entire life. I have always been happier with both my feet
Typically, just as we enter the next few days of intense heat, my friend’s dog ate my straw sun hat last night! Apart from my Henley hat and winter beanies, I am hatless. I knew today I would just have to be careful in the sun, but what I did do this morning and which
