Quick update

HI All,

Just a very quick update on what's been going on.

We had a great time doing the Wirral Coastal walk and hopefully have raised a good amount of money. I had just over £300 in sponsorship, the last of which I need to collect in. My sister Jane and two of her boys, Matthew and John came along and they're also collecting their sponsorship in, thank you to them for coming along and supporting us. One of our students, Sharon, persuaded her husband to take part on our behalf so a HUGE thank you to him for walking 15 miles to help to raise funds for Clatterbridge Cancer Charity.

Here's my sister, plus boys, Angela on the right and me sporting a very fetching little hat that my sister kindly lent me. I suspect it belonged to a 5 year old in a previous life!

Angela and Flora. Angela is probably trying to work out how to work her mobile phone! ;))

The 3 of us with Flora's friend Rose who joined us for part of the walk. She brought chocolate biscuits so was a VERY popular lady!

Angela and Flora were busy with their choir for a weekend, on tour in Yorkshire. They did a raffle on tour and I think they told me they raised £70, I'll check to make sure I've got that right.

Last Friday my 2 eldest boys, Sam and Jason went along to our local Tesco store and started off a bucket collection for me, standing around in CCC T-shirts for 3 hours, looking appealing. I took over from them for a couple of hours and Flora and Angela were able to make it for the end of the day, after work. We're waiting to find out the total for that. I was really pleased that my sons were willing to take part, so thanks to Sam and Jason. Also thanks to the very generous customers at the store , many of whom stopped to offer their support to us.

This last weekend we did another car boot sale and raised £125. The weather was beautiful and I completely forgot to put any sun cream on before standing out in the sun for 4 hours. By the end of the day I had a lovely, bright red nose and the left side of my face glowed a lot! The right side had faced away from the sun so I ended up looking like an extra from the Close Encounters film!

My colleagues in Clinical Education at CCC took pity on me as I've had a busy few weeks and ran a cake sale for us yesterday. They baked and trawled their goods around CCC, raising £76, which is fab and we're really thrilled!

This weekend will be BUSY! Saturday morning a group of us are abseiling at Loggerheads in North Wales. We're then heading up Moel Fammau in the afternoon for what should be a lovely walk in the sunshine. Suncream at the ready!!! On Sunday morning I'm joining lots of Wirralians to do the Wirral Bikeathon which is an annual event raising money for the Leukaemia and Lymphoma charity. My late Dad's fiancee, Jenny, sadly passed away last week having been poorly for over a year with Myeloma, which is a form of haematological cancer. So I'll be thinking of her while I'm pedalling. Sunday afternoon we'll be meeting up at the Wro in West Kirby where Sally, the owner, has helped to put on a fundraising strawberry tea. That should be lovely although I may need to lie down to rest my soorly bottom by then!

I'll make sure we get lots of pictures of our activities to post next week.

TTFN, Pauline.