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April 2023
April being bowel cancer awareness month saw the release from Fields of Dawn of The Final Post EP. This very special release supported Bowel Cancer UK, The Bowel Movement and Bowel Cancer Australia.
March 2023
March began with some live music with a hometown gig for The Vapors which also celebrated lead singer Dave Fenton’s 70th birthday.
February 2023
February was a quiet month. No Valentine’s cards as always 🤣 and I celebrated my 57th birthday. The years seem to be racing by! I spent February writing and recording The Final Post EP. The idea had kind of been sown in my mind when I went to Llandudno at the end of January.
January 2023
The year could not have started on a more sad note. The death of Nicole Cooper came as a terrible shock. 2022 had been a difficult year for her with her health and ongoing treatment for bowel cancer, but I hadn’t seen the devastating news coming at all.
11 YEARS
November 25th marked 11 years of my fundraising and raising awareness about bowel cancer. I would never have guessed when my Beating Bowel Cancer book was published 25/11/2012 that 11 years on I would still be here pushing the fundraising as hard as ever and receiving the continued phenomenal support from the most amazing supporters, who more importantly have become my friends x The impact this has had on my own life cannot be understated – it really has been life-changing.
Mum in Cornwall
Through Mum I rediscovered Cornwall. We went there a couple of times on family holidays when we were young, but when I returned there in 2012 it was for the first time in over 35 years. These two trips split by 4 years both involved picking Mum up from the quite beautiful St Anthony-in-Meneage
Mental Health Update February 2023
This week has been a big week and perhaps the right time for me to update everyone on my mental health. My 57th birthday was on February 21st. I had a call from my sister wishing me happy birthday and she asked how I was. Without thinking or having any kind of response ready I said that I felt content and at peace.
Valentines Day 2023
It was gut-wrenchingly sad today to hear the news from Melbourne about the death to bowel cancer of Nicole Cooper. One of the kindest and most wonderful souls, who did so much to advocate for bowel cancer patients and raise awareness about bowel cancer.
2022 in Review – December
Finally, as the year draws to a close we arrive in December. After the mild Autumn the blast of Winter we had for about 10 days was hideous. The temperature in my unit on the farm was bitterly cold and not much fun at all. I was so pleased to see a return to the mild temperatures before Christmas. However, lovely to be able to get a picture of Prince in the snow.
