Just a short note.

As some of you will be aware, I lost my Mum to terminal cancer on January 17th this year at the age of 62. Having lost my Father to cancer when I was 12 years old, cancer research has become very close to my heart. My wife and I have decided that where and when we can, we will try to help boost their coffers.

My wife Ruth has decided to do the Race for Life, in June in memory of her, and therefore, if any of you who have met or know me from various functions and/or these bulletin boards, should you wish to sponsor her, you can do so by clicking donate below:



Thanks for your time with this matter.

Ian


EDIT: I just wanted to say a big heartfelt thank you to all of your who have contributed - we reached our target, which although relatively modest means a lot to me.

UPDATE:

Well, I was very proud of Ruth and the 4000 or so other participants at Crystal Palace on Sunday, it was a genuinely moving experience to see all those people doing something for charity due to their lives being directly or indirectly affected by cancer.

Ruth did the run in just over 38mins which is pretty good, and we had a great day out in the sun! We managed to raised just over 600 in the end, which made me feel very proud, that Ruth had done this in Mums name. Thank you one and all!

Ian

opto,

I would do, but I do not want to abuse my position here - hence my not posting very much to this thread, so it just runs its natural course as it were. but as I am posting, I am very grateful for all the support offered - it is genuinely quite touching for me, thanks one and all

Ian

Ian,
It is not for personnal gain but in support of a very worthy charity.
Obviously you don't want to create a precedent and encourage charity threads but this being very close to you and you very close to am I can't see anyone on here considering that you would be 'abusing your position' by pinning the thread to the top for a while.
500 is going to be a very worthwhile donation to Cancer Researce but I can see that figure growing substantially.
Regards
opto

Although my son and myself are doing a walk for charity (coast to coast) I would not consider putting any request on this site, as I appreciate it could as Optomistic is hinting at cause difficulties (a refusal often offends etc) and it would not be practical to pick/choose who was accepted (for a post) and who was not.
But again as Opto states, you are connected to MoneyAm in a totally different way to us, so fully acceptable.
I'm sure many do appreciate your quandary, and I'm also sure you gave it a lot of thought re your initial post.
Just felt it should be said.
Will shut up now.

IanT(MoneyAM) - 25 Mar 2009 12:00 - 18 of 20
opto,
I would do, but I do not want to abuse my position here - hence my not posting very much to this thread, so it just runs its natural course as it were. but as I am posting, I am very grateful for all the support offered - it is genuinely quite touching for me, thanks one and all
Ian

As a moderator I will abuse my position.
The thread is blessed.
DS

Apologies posted on wrong thread however, now I have read it, I wish you both well in your endeavour, best let the women do all the physical stuff, they are well used to it.

I will use the above button.

Dominic,

It has also stopped some of the cheekier lot accidentally 'of course' posting on the wrong thread. Not that their error's were not genuine.

Ahhh yes much more subtle. Accidents it is then.

DS

TTT..........for the weekend.

Hope you are training hard Ruth :-0)

25 to go, come on guys and gals!

How's the training going Ruth?
Good to see you are very close to the 500 target :-)

Optomistic,

Hope you are not just posting to keep this in the limelight. I also noticed the fund is only just 15 short of target.

Regards Greek.

Greekman. I wouldn't dream of doing such a thing......... I only wish I was of younger years, I would join the run :-)

I would have thought Cynic could have put the 15 in with all the profits he's made(if you believe that lol) I might be wrong but I haven't seen his name here yet. A bit of pressure from us to get his hands into those deep pockets of his. lol :)))

Ian,

Just a final good luck for your wife, as I will be well away from my computer from the 15th for 2 weeks. Nice to see target almost reached.

Greek.

Ian, best of luck to Ruth. She's just got to her target, so only the easy running part to do now ;-)

Morning Ian,

Hope Ruth enjoyed her run and is not suffering too many aches and pains.
Nice to see the target was smashed.