I’ve got a little ride planned in the Rockies on the 14th and 15th of July with my mate John. For the cycling types, the ride is roughly 120 miles a day, with over 10,000 feet of climbing per day.
I figured it would be good idea to combine it with a dose of fundraising, but I’d not got around to getting things set up until now.
In the past few months, I have been to services for people close to me who died from cancer, one for my uncle Alec and the other a dear friend, Hamish, from my SAP days. At a very moving service last weekend in Jussy, many people came to say goodbye to Hamish. He was one of the good guys. He will be sorely missed by his family and many friends.
Hearing the Burns poem, A Mother’s Lament for her son’s death, focuses one’s mind. I have got my act into gear over at justgiving.com
I’m convinced that eventually scientific research will help beat the disease. Please head over to the justgiving.com page and take out your credit card. Your dosh will go straight to cancer research.
For those that have not read the poem, here it is.
I hope you never have to hear a mother read it.
And pierc’d my darling’s heart;
And with him all the joys are fled
Life can to me impart.By cruel hands the sapling drops,
In dust dishonour’d laid;
So fell the pride of all my hopes,
My age’s future shade.
The mother-linnet in the brake
Bewails her ravish’d young;
So I, for my lost darling’s sake,
Lament the live-day long.
Death, oft I’ve feared thy fatal blow.
Now, fond, I bare my breast;
O, do thou kindly lay me low
With him I love, at rest!
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