I’ve been watching with a certain degree of ghoulish
fascination as David Walliams completed his gruelling eight-day, 140 mile charity
swim along the River Thames. He’s suffered from ‘Thames Tummy’ [all that raw
sewage - yuk!] He’s been bitten by water-fleas and attacked by swans. He’s
saved a dog from drowning and almost passed out from hypothermia but he has
managed to raise over £1,000,000 for Sport Relief. Amazing! 
We did our bit for charity last night. We went out for a
curry. It was Mr A’s first visit to an Indian Restaurant since he had his stem
cell transplant last year. The dietary restrictions were over long ago but we
just hadn’t managed to get out for an authentic curry. [Apparently mine don’t
count!] He seems to have survived the meal. He had a tender tummy this morning but nothing on the scale
of Walliams’ troubles. The evening was in aid of Save the Children so it was worth a bit
of a rumbling tum. Our friend regularly organises events for this charity and last night raised over £700. Excellent!
A charity that’s very close to my heart has a special event coming
up. On Friday 30th September The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning will be held by
Macmillan Cancer Support.
I’ve decided that this year I’m going to organise...
~ a
virtual coffee morning ~
The added advantage is that my sister, Hilary, can join
me. Well she does live 200 miles away and this is the nearest thing we’ll get to doing
anything together this autumn!
I’ll be posting up more about the event next
week but we’ve already set up a page for donations to Macmillan Cancer Support in
memory of our mum and we’ve said a few words about her so please go along and visit our page by clicking the following link...
The coffee morning will last all weekend [that’s the great
thing about being virtual!] so if you can’t make it on the Friday or Saturday
then you can join in the fun on Sunday. There’ll be lots of cake [guaranteed
edible unlike my non-virtual ones!] and a continual supply of freshly ground coffee, plus de-caff if you prefer. I’ll be wearing fancy dress [more about
that next week] and there’ll be awards given out [more about that next week
too] but above all it’ll be about raising money to help people with cancer and
right now I can’t think of a more worthy cause.
