24th April 2012
WOW indeed! The Women of Worldwide hosted the first event of the year in support of Team Sylvia and raised £106 by eating tea and cake, sounds perfect to me! Tesco Redruth, Westcountry Fruit Sales, Diana George and Rosamund Derry all kindly donated raffle prizes, for which we are very grateful. The rain held off for the garden tour, expertly led by Tom the Head Gardener. I think it's safe to say a jolly good time was had by all!
March 2012 - How time flies eh? I am delighted to announce that the Women of Worldwide have joined forces (we are certainly a force to be reckoned with!) and our chosen charity to raise tons of money this year is, yes, Team Sylvia!! Thank you so much to those of you involved and keep an eye on this page for updates on what is going on and where. Any bright ideas for money raising fun are more than welcome!! You can like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/WowTheWomenOfWorldwide?ref=tn_tnmn
Christmas 2011
Well, we had a laugh last night. An elite few went carol singing around our area, left it a bit late in the evening and a lot of unanswered doors but we raised an extra tenner, all helps! Merry Christmas and thanks to Diana, Sharon, Fiona and Cathie!
19th December 2011 Crikey, how did that happen? Almost Christmas again? For those of you looking to make Christmas more valuable this year, the pot is really grateful; for your donation, whatever size. Next year we are working on a watercolour workshop and a really fun dance night, watch this space! Happy Christmas one and all! xx
29th October 2011 Huge thanks to my father-in-law Peter Hansen who ran a cycle event and found he made a profit, kindly donating that profit to Team Sylvia. Thanks Peter! xx
6th October 2011 - A sad day for those of us affected by pancreatic cancer, Steve Jobs for a long time showed that illness that it had no place but it sadly took over in the end, we shall miss him. I've been away a while but we need to crack on now. Christmas is around the corner again and my birthday on the 12th October, if you feel inclined to give me a little gift then pop a pound or two in the pot here please! Planning to get cracking with our findraising again very soon, been busy with exams, just 2 more to go of this tranche!
5th August 2011. There is a huge party in Heaven today, Mum is now one year old today so there is angelic jelly and ice cream all round, party, party! If you have lost a loved one to cancer and experienced the difference that a hospice makes in the final days, then please feel free to dig deep and donate. My plan is to hit £5000 raised in the first twelve months and we are about £300 short of that so we have a month to get there. Many, many thanks to all of those who have helped and joined in so far. xx
Big, big thanks to 730 Squadron Truro Air Training Corps for their gift to us, another step closer, thanks lads!
A huge, huge thank you to Becky Bendle, Lynne Juleff, my Dad Bill, Lydia, Jordan and Nick for helping me out today at Sainsbury's in Truro today doing a collection, which raised £271.71!! Yeeha! Thank you Mr Anonymous for taking us up over the magic £4000 recently, we have a way to go but we will get there, keep an eye on us for the next fundraiser..........
Give me some ideas as to what you would like to do, a ladies race day, a mystery tour in a vintage bus, sit in custard (or pay to watch others do it), a treasure hunt, auction, talent competition - what's your favourite for our next fundraiser - come on - let's have some fun!
29th April, what a day! Wonderful wedding and our street party raised over £100 to be split between Precious Lives and Team Sylvia - how to have fun and raise money, yeeha!
He did it! Great run on 13th March from Paul Dennison. He ran the Duchy marathon in 4 hours 35 minutes and 2 seconds (despite only just getting over a chest infection the previous week!) and we have a winner of the surfing lessons and the night in the hotel, being Mrs Mavis James from Cornwall, who tells me that she may just gift her lessons to her brother, in order to improve his surfing skills! This event has raised £565 plus gift aid and I am so grateful to Paul, Rob at the English Surfing Federation Surf School (and Helen who worked her magic there!) as well as Sam from the Metro hotel in Newquay. Thank you so much all of you. xx
A great night on 4th March in Warwickshire with pasties, star gazey pie and thunder and lightning, mmmm! Fantastic music from Dos Gatos, we need to get them down to Cornwall so you can all enjoy their brilliant music. Plenty raised with the raffle and lots of folk entering the competition - final tally was £280.40 split between the Shakespeare Hospice and Team Sylvia. Massive thanks to Jay Moody and his trusty team for organising a really great evening and to the band who donated their time, we are so grateful. Lots of people entered the surf and hotel competition which brought in roughly another £100 on the night, fabulous!
And what is more, Spring is really battling to win through over the last knockings of winter, hooray!
THE BACKGROUND TO ALL THIS................................
On 5th August 2010 after a 20 month struggle with pancreatic cancer, my Mum took the express to Heaven, leaving via the gateway of St Julia's Hospice in Hayle. This amazing place looked after Mum for 9 weeks - she was a fighter! I have calculated that Mum's care cost £38000 and I would like to raise this to ensure that someone else who needs this great place (or Mount Edgcumbe in St Austell where Mum spent a week) will be able to benefit from it. "Team Sylvia" was launched on 8th September 2010 in honour of my dear Mum and because she was a generous spirited and loving woman who would have wanted others to benefit from the wonderful care that she received and for which she was very thankful.
Just found these childhood memories of Mum's and thought what interesting reading they make...
Childhood Memories in Hayle Cornwall
My memories of the war are rather sketchy as I was only 15 months old when war broke out but I do have some.
I was born in Lelant, Cornwall where I lived with my mother and father.
Dad was called up and went to serve in the Pioneer corps. After a while, Mum & I moved to Hayle, where most of my memories were made.
One of my earliest memories is the wearing of gas masks. I had a ‘mickey mouse’ type and to this day I love the smell of rubber! I remember being at school in the playground with the rest of the school, carrying our gas masks over our shoulders.
I can remember the barrage balloon over Hayle power station and the dropping of foil strips. I had no idea of their purpose but they were good to play with!
Another time, my mother and I were living with my aunt in Hayle. One day some men came and took down the iron railings in her front garden. I can remember being very upset about this and thinking ‘how dare they take them down’!!
My aunt had a morrison shelter (I think it was called that) in her dining room and there were times when the siren would go and we all got into it. Either my aunt would say ‘after you Cecil’, and the other would reply ‘no, after you Claud’. Then one of them would say ‘oh, I have forgotten my knitting’ and go off and get it!!
When we were at home we would have to make do with the kitchen table!
Sometimes Mum and I would watch the planes going overhead and we would wave to them as they droned by.
My mother would take me to the camp where Dad was billeted. I seem to remember one Christmas, spending some time with him in the camp. We played ‘housie, housie’ or bingo as it is known today.
Dad took me to see where he slept and there were rows of neat beds, each with a gun placed in a precise position on it.
We would go to Hayle railway station and see Dad off on the train back to his billet, after home leave.
We had a land girl once – I don’t think I liked her very much – My mother had made our dinner and I was sitting opposite the land girl (can’t remember her name). Mum had put the dinner down in front of her, whereupon she gave it a very hard look. I asked her ‘what’s the matter with it?’ She replied very tersely ‘ Nothing I am allowed to look at my food aren’t I ?’ I remember thinking that she was looking at it as though it was poison!
Mum used to cook with dried egg and sometimes I used to dip my finger into the powder to get a taste – it wasn’t very nice!! A treat for me was to mix a small amount of cocoa powder with a small amount of sugar and eat it with a spoon!!
We were walking down the street one day and there were three men in front of us and I was told they were Italians. I learnt in later years that they were probably prisoners of war.
My mother took the accumulator to a shop in the town to be recharged. This was used to power the radio. It looked like a smaller version of the old kind of car battery I seem to remember!
On VE day I was allowed up late to see the street lights switch on. The war was over.
In 1947, I think it was, Dad returned home.
So, much of Mum's early life was spent in Hayle and that is also where she spent her last few weeks, it must be special!
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So please dig deep and donate now. Sadly, we never know when we might need the hospice so please help now for all who have gone before and all who may yet go.........
Thank you so much for your support.
Donna Hansen xx
