This Lent I'll be running. First 1km on the 17th February, then 2km on the 18th, then 3km increasing by 1km each day ending my challenge by running 46km on the 3rd April. I'll be covering a total distance of 1081km (671.7023 miles in old money), anyone who knows me at all knows I am not built to run...

This year the charity I will be supporting is the Severn Hospice. The charitable trust runs three separate hospices as well as providing care at home. I was inspired to raise money for them following the death of a wonderful woman I wish I'd had the pleasure to know better. I met Catherine Ennis while teaching her husband, John, the bassoon. She always took the time to find out what I’d been up to, listening to or conducting and how I was; she was always kind and encouraging. Catherine was a wonderful organist. I only heard her play live twice - once at St Lawrence Jewry and a recital at Westminster Cathedral in 2018. Both experiences were moving and inspirational. She spent her last weeks in the Shrewsbury hospice where John tells me she was kindly and lovingly cared for.