To everyone who has donated - A HUGE THANK YOU - it really is very much appreciated.

To anyone who has not donated - please read on.  Although the event has passed, you can still donate to help this wonderful cause...

Last year, our good friend Guy Llewellyn fell (only a few feet), broke his back and is now paralysed from the waist down.  The Spinal Injuries Association helped him through his three months at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, inspired his strength to carry on, which in turn inspired this sponsored event.

The Grade-One-A-Thon (GOAT) challenge was to pass grade 1 on a musical instrument you'd never touched before, in only two months.  I plumped for percussion (side drum + glockenspiel).  My one and only lesson was with Dame Evelyn Glennie no less, and I'm sure she'd be proud of my result of 141 / 150 - a good "distinction".

I have to say well done to my wife Sheanna who also chose percussion and scored 145 / 150!  As promised, scoring fewer points, I donated £50 to her JustGiving page.  Grrr!

Our post-exam concert in the Cambridge Corn Exchange had to be heard to be believed.  Previewed on the BBC, and billed as "Clueless in Concert", 140 very good musicians (many of them professionals) took to the stage on their "wrong" instrument.  Perhaps the hardest part was trying not to laugh at each other - something the audience certainly didn't succeed with!  But that's ok because they had to pay to get out...

You can still give SIA loads of dosh by clicking "Donate now"...

Thanks, Darren / Dash / Dashman