A bit of a plea
As some of you may know I am running a 5k next saturday with my mum to raise money for cancer research and as some of you may suspect I am about to hassle you for some pennies….
(A recreation of the event)
Myself and my mother have been wittering on about doing this race since my first year of university where I was not regarded as the fittest or most active of people, but in recent years I have started exercising and doing a jog here and then to try and regain some health BUT registering for this finally gave me the motivation to give up smoking. So thats point one of why this is a good thing.
The second point is this. Cancer is a indescribably awful bastard of a disease and 5 years ago this May my nan died of it. She was an altogether awesome Irish lady who raised seven children pretty much single handedly and still found time to drink 25 cups of tea a day and in later years insisted everything I bought from the high street would have been cheaper/nicer if I had gone to Oxfam. She kind of turned out to be right about that whole vintage thing.
I would like to raise two hundred pounds for this altogether worthy cause in her memory and so far I am fifty pounds off, so give a few minutes to increase your karma rating and give my mum a reason to have gone to those lunchtime running classes. Please click HERE
Ellen x
I’m 36, and I live in the ass end of africa. I have all your albums but sadly bought none of them. Not that I could find them here if I wanted to; normally this would not bother me in the least but – you guys are the most original and brilliant band I think I’ve heard since I was just a critter listening to the pixies – provide me with a way to contribute money to you directly and I totally will (though after currency exchange it may not be that much). Point is I may not be the only one, and you buggers deserve it! In the mean time I’ll see if I can find a album of yours to buy, even though.. you know.