cancer fundraising
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
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
Today I began work on the CDs for the Fields of Dawn album. Whereas with the vinyl label where I went quite traditional, for the CD I have based the label on the cover design. It should look quite striking. I will post the master CD off tomorrow and then can sit back and wait
Today has not gone to plan. I went into work this morning expecting to be on the road to Leeds pretty early, only for me to get a phone call from my brother, who sounded awful and has finally succumbed to COVID. Hoping that he makes a speedy recovery of course, but that was the
The debut album from my music project Fields of Dawn was released in September and has raised over £900 so far. A New Dawn is available on vinyl, CD and digital download.
Tomorrow I will be heading north to Leeds to stay with my brother this weekend. It is unlikely to have the same level of excitement as my last trip 6 weeks ago, which saw me visiting the King Power Leicester City ground on the way up and then to Leeds United’s Elland Road Stadium with
I have spent the last couple of days doing the finishing touches to the Fields of Dawn album. Not without unexpected niggles, which resulted in me deciding to do a final remix of the No Man’s Land track. However, the biggest and most fiddly task is getting all the tracks at the same volume. I
It’s seems unbelievable that today marks the 10th anniversary of losing dad. June 15th 2009 is a day when everything changed…
It was exactly three years ago that I did my last public fundraising event when I went to the Bowel Cancer UK Patients Day in Manchester. The Record was a couple of weeks away from its official publication date, so I took copies along to sell along with some Stop Bowel Cancer Teddies. It was
