Dear Friends,

On 22 October 2012 my father passed away after an 8 month battle with lymphoma. For the last 6 weeks of his life he received care with the support of Shipston Home Nursing, a charity that specialises in giving palliative care to terminally ill patients within their own home in the South Warwickshire area.  Although a regional charity they were invaluable in giving my family and I support in what was an extremely distressing time and as such I cannot thank them enough.

I shall be competing in the BUPA great Birmingham run on 20 October in memory of my father and all charitable donations will go to Shipston Home Nursing. To make it a little more interesting from a personal point of view it is my intention to run the course in a personal best time of sub 1 hour 50 mins. So as the saying goes no matter how big or small all donations will be gratefully received.