...and a final, I promise, final word 'pour encourager les autres...' 'How's things with you? still scooting around as usual, If remember when ever you are up this way drop in  I'll be pleased to see you if  you chuck  a case of a full bodied red in your boot I'll buy it off you. Give my  regards to the lads at the next lunch and congratulate  Bill Collins on his stirling effort in the charity bike ride in aid of Parkinson's disease...'

...which really does make all that I attempt to do really worthwhile...This wil be the very last email you'll receive from me, promise...

All the very best to you and yours...

Bill Collins...

Factomania:-

          1. There are 120,000 people with Parkinson's in the UK...there is no known cure...

          2, The symptoms are: Tremor, slowness of movement and stiffness or rigidity of muscles...

          3. Parkinson's UK is entirely funded by voluntary donations...

          4. Where your money goes: Research...information supply and distribution, advice...a freephone helpline:

              0808 800 0303 staffed by nurses and specialist advisors...

          5. Education to health and social care professionals to increase their understanding of this complex condition...

          6. £2 covers the cost of sending out a DVD of 'Being There' to newly diagnosed Parkinsonians...£12 will enable  a support worker to give information on benefits...£15 will allow a Parkinson's Disease Nurse Specialist to spend an hour working with a sufferer...£25 will pay for a PDS nurse to take calls for one hour...£150 will pay for a Parkinson's Disease Nurse Specialist for a day...£1000 will fund a cutting edge research project into PD for a week...

          7. On the positive side, most sufferers will not die of PD, that is, not unless they take up tree-logging with a chainsaw ;0))