Tomorrow Woody was supposed to be taking part in the 40th ever London Marathon. However since it's been postponed, and in order to help save UK charities, he's joining the organisers in their 2.6 challenge running around our local park 26 times tomorrow instead! We know just how hard this pandemic has hit charities with our own fundraising efforts having practically stopped for now and next to no donations having come in ever since the Coronavirus chaos kicked in 😢 But tomorrow we're hoping that those that can will reach out and help the charities closest to their hearts in order to help them keep afloat and continue to do the great job they do for so many! ❤️
It's nuts to think that around this equivalent time last year Woody and my marathon efforts helped raise over £50,000 in total pushing us over our £1,000,000 target overall! (Check out this feature in our local paper The Surrey Mirror, that came out on this very day ahead of the London Marathon last year) The only way we hit our target was thanks to so many of you together with the help of some ITV and BBC coverage on the day of the London Marathon in 2019 itself. I for one will never forget that BBC News interview where I almost lost it at mile 12 on Tower Bridge, nor the fact ITV were interviewing me in my start pen while I was on permanent rotation in the toilet queue! (What can I say, I was really nervous...!)
So far Woody's Virgin Money page is sat at £50 which is a far cry from the £2,500 target he's supposed to raise but equally we appreciate few are in a position to currently donate but if you can spare a few pennies, albeit £2.60 or £26 in keeping with tomorrow's theme, we'd be so very grateful as sadly 12 children are still being diagnosed with cancer every day in the UK and the coronavirus has done nothing but made each families experience so much more challenging (https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/thegiantpledge)
As for today, well you can safely say we all enjoyed the fantastic weather! Yes I cracked out one of my 'never to be seen outside the house' outfits (it's not often I rock a boob tube let alone one in blue zebra print paired with shorts that are not that far off hot pants...!) But we were all so relaxed and I for one thoroughly enjoyed planting out so many of the seeds we've been busily growing even if the boys weren't as convinced! All a far cry from this day where George started his 6th of 14 rounds of chemo during his cancer treatment. (He may well be smiling here but this was the calm before the storm with us entertaining him in isolation before the next four days of intravenous toxic drugs kicked in)
Between us we've got this.
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