This weekend I will be running in the Race for Life.  I only really signed up because I wanted to get back into doing a bit of running.  But as it turns out, I’m going to be running it for a far more important reason – the most important reason.  This week we received the devastating news that my lovely friend Hazel’s little boy Tommy has been diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia.  Tommy is the most gorgeous scrumptious little boy you could ever hope to meet and is only 18 months old.  Hazel, James, Peggy and Joe face the longest of roads and an unenviable battle.  If I could do anything more practical believe me I would, but at the moment all I can do is run on Sunday with Tommy in my heart, Tommy in my mind, and hope that in the long term, my tiny effort will in some way.

For that reason, I am also going to ask you all if you can find it in your hearts to sponsor me.  It is at times like this that you realise just how valuable all of the research that charities like Cancer Research carry out truly is.  The outcome for diseases like AML have improved immeasurably over recent years, and that is thanks to people putting their hands in their pockets and funding the amazing research that is going on out there.