cancer fundraising
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.
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.
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.
Six months ago I contacted my GP about my mental health and referred myself to Talking Therapies. My doctor prescribed me a low daily dosage of Sertraline and I had a course of CBT therapy on Talking Therapies. Today I had my three monthly check up to see how I am doing. The good news
