Imagine. Stop for a moment and imagine wanting to do something and not being able because your muscles do not receive proper instructions from your brain. The something you want to do is to walk or lift a drink to your mouth or speak or type. The London Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy aims to help children to achieve such aims. It runs a school for children up to the age of 11 suffering from cerebral palsy. I have been a trustee of the charity, which runs the Centre,  for some 30 years and I am still amazed and also a little proud of the work done there. I assure you that it is a charity worth supporting and, as a trustee, I am able to see that all donations are well spent.

The ride is over. 200 miles exceeded and much of it into strong headwinds. Cycling south out of Den Helder on the way to Amsterdam, we encountered a  stretch which was extremely flat and several miles long on an excellently surfaced cycle path between the polder and an extremely high sea wall. On a good day, it would have been a breeze. (Forgive the pun) On that day, into the wind, it was little short of torture. It was the equivalent of climbing a long, long climb  Worse, each time you looked up the dot on the horizon, which turned out to be a cafe, seemed to be growing no larger. When we finally arrived, Chew and Siew bought us icecreams. We needed the sugar. Eight hours later, when we cycled into Dam Square, the centre of Amsterdam, we felt that we had overcome the elements.

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