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Monkey Business

Monkey was a ‘give away’ associated with a popular brand of tea ( CORRECTION INSERTED: on the TV ad, any fule kno that Johnny Vegas is the straight man to Monkey who is actually voiced by Ben Miller – the one that looks like Rob Bryden) – my Monkey arrived in a box of tea well before Christmas 2010 and has lived in my car ever since. He’s still wearing his Christmas jumper and I felt it was about time he had something else to wear so I bought him a daffodil.

The daffodil appeal is run every year by Marie Curie, a UK-based charity providing care for those with cancer – in this area they work closely in collaboration with the primary health care teams, most commonly providing night-time nursing to support those who chose to die at home. The care is free to the patient and the family. Some of you may remember I have done sponsored swims in previous years and though I am slow to get going, I plan to do the same again this year! (Now I’ve told you, I shall just have to get on with it…)

Here’s monkey sporting his new daffodil

and listening to his favourite author.

‘Young at Heart’

I suddenly realised that my pledge to swim 1000 lengths with Swimathon, to raise funds for Marie Curie Nursing has been rather neglected over the last few weeks- though a combination of factors (not least of which is the garden) – and that in order to complete the self-imposed challenge I have to get a wiggle on. Continue reading “‘Young at Heart’”

‘Just’ Swim?

OK, some of you will have been through this before with me  – but this year I’m doing a slightly different challenge.  Instead of pledging to swim either 100 or 200 lengths on a given day in a given pool I’m pledging to swim regularly from end of January to 8th April to see how many lengths I can accumulate. Continue reading “‘Just’ Swim?”