Thanks for taking the time to visit the JustGiving page of Sue, Michael, Shaya and Kesia.

Every so often one or two or more of us will do something to raise money for the wonderful people at Tynedale Hospice who looked after our beautiful friend 'Anti-Lara' when she was so ill. 

Today (1 Sept) is the day after the 5th anniversary of when Lara died and Michael and I are cycling 40 miles across Yorkshire to our friends' Jeremy and Michelle's wedding at Castle Howard.

Lara became a mega cyclist when she cycled back from Sunseed in Spain where she'd been living for a year with her new partner at the time Jona, who became her husband and father of their two lovely girls, Cala and Nancy. So fundraising with a cycle ride seems the right thing to do! 

We all loved Lara so much and we are so grateful to the wonderful folk at Tynedale for looking after her so well. 

We hope our fundraising will help them in their work and give someone else the benefit of their wonderful care. 

If you haven't seen it before, you can read Lara's obituary here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2012/nov/12/lara-marsh-obituary 

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Lara - The London Years

Picnics, chocolate, laughter, beer

Festivals and dancing, year after year

Lara, 'The Mac Lass' took London by storm

She laughed and she argued

- and she always won!

Greasy spoons were an everyday snack

Healthy eating wasn't quite on track

A pint of lager or maybe a rum

Were her drinks of choice

It was fun. It was fun.

Professional Lara was astute and clever

Running campaigns which made headlines, 

but never, did she fall in the trap 

of worthy or dull

She was wise, she was sassy, she inspired. 

What a girl.

There were low times of course

But her friends they were many

She could laugh, sometimes cry,

and long chats kept her steady.

She joined our family – me, Michael and Shaya

In our new house East End 

- what a wonderful lodger!

We played conkers at midnight

She was Shaya's best friend

And our Glitter Funk party – that started a trend!

Then one day I realised

that although I would miss her

The place she should go to was – Almeria!

"Goodbye Desert Princess" we wrote in her present

And she strode off to Sunseed

And her life changed for ever....

Xxxxxxxxx

Wed 5 Sept 2012

(read at Lara’s Celebration of Life)