My heartfelt thanks and blessings for all your kindness and appreciation of my work, especially to the 68 generous souls who together donated a mindblowing £1,548, but also to the hundreds of others who supported and shared this campaign! This should enable me to purchase a 2nd hand but lightly used Canon Eos 5D mk3 and pay to get my damaged main lens fixed and working again, so thank you once more for the massive show of faith in what I do and for enabling me to continue! See you all in a field, through a lens, very soon - I love you! <3

My heartfelt thanks to the 33 friends who have so far donated a total of £718 towards new equipment - bless you all! Back in September, when my replacement camera body fizzled and died, I had to bring my old camera out of retirement in order to carry on producing images. Sadly, this old faithful bit of kit (9 years and 2 million images old!) finally died on boxing day when the shutter mechanism fell apart and jammed, so I'm now without a camera for the first time in 30 years! Fingers crossed for more donations now that xmas is over! ;) xxx

WOW! I just took a sneaky peak at my campaign, hoping there might have been the odd quid or two donated so far, but I wasn't prepared for what I found; a whole bunch of tenners and twenties, so I'm rather moist-eyed as I type this. I feel truly blessed for the show of love and support so far - thank you all from the deepest depths of my much-swelled blood-pumping love organ! <3 xxx