Thanks for visiting our page. We are walking the first 5 stages of the SWCP, starting in Minehead on day one and finishing in Braunton on day five.  We are walking the 64 miles to raise money for the British Heart Foundation. This is a charity very close to our hearts as 5 years ago our close friend’s grandson was diagnosed with a heart defect whilst in the womb. He had transposition of the great arteries (TGA), where the two main arteries leaving the heart are the wrong way round. It is a medical emergency, and babies with this condition are ‘blue’ because once born the blood circulating their body doesn’t have much oxygen. He had to go straight on a respirator at birth and at only 17 days old had to undergo open heart surgery to repair the defect. The surgeon was operating on tubes no bigger than the circumference of a piece of spaghetti. BHF Professor Magdi Yacoub developed the ‘arterial switch’ procedure in 1975 to treat babies born with this congenital heart condition. Since then he has refined and developed the procedure, which is now a global ‘gold standard’. Without this, our gorgeous Rosco would not have survived to be the amazing little person he is today.