I’m off

In a few hours, I make my way to Beijing to start my trek across many miles of the Great Wall.

When I started thinking about this adventure last year, I was anxious about how much money I would need to raise. I have to admit that I had serious doubts that this would ever come off and I half expected that I would have to pull the plug. But it’s happening, and it’s because of the generous givers in my life. Over the last few months, I have been blown away by everyone’s generosity. Genuinely and sincerely, I have been so humbled and am so deeply thankful for the generous outpouring of support that I have received from so many people, far and wide. It has been a big motivation to get me training and preparing and it will be the thing that pushes me on as I climb up my 22nd thousand step and it all starts to get a bit much. It feels good to embark on this interesting adventure and to have so many of you supporting me along the way and it feels good to be able to give thousands of pounds to a charity that I know will make a very positive impact during a very negative part of people’s lives.

No one wants to die of cancer, but if that’s the card you get dealt, it must be of some comfort to know that there are amazing places you can go where events can take their course and you can be surrounded by family and beauty and peace.

Anyway, this trip is for Francesca and this trip is for Peter. This trip is for Bernard, and Helen. This trip is for Hunter, and Debbie, and Lolly, for Rebecca and Marj. This trip is for Jo. This trip is for Henri and Jean-Pierre and Michel, for Donald and Phoebe. For Paula, for Naomi, for Peter and Alix, for Donna, for Julia. For all the people I’ve missed that have dealt closely with cancer.

This trip is for those of us in the future who will be diagnosed with it.

Thank you again so much for your support. Wish me luck!

xo
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