Hi everyone, This is a picture of my dad, Elfed, letting off steam shortly after completing his finals and it always makes me laugh!  It's his birthday on Wednesday and on Saturday I'm going on a modest sponsored walk in his honour in an effort to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society. 

My dad was clever, funny and charming, a man with an insatiable curiosity and wonder about the natural world, who made groundbreaking scientific discoveries about tiny sea creatures that I’ll never now understand; a man who would drop everything to go to the help of a sick or frightened animal; and who never stopped dreaming on international days that the Welsh squad might suddenly need him to put on his boots and help out. 

Elfed can no longer find the words to explain how he’s feeling, but he does know he has dementia and that bit by bit his identity is being stolen from him. I’m hoping to raise money to stop others suffering in the same way.