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Christmas Day 2012 my wife gave me a three day pass to the MotoGP in Barcelona (The best Christmas present I ever had) which turned into me and three of my friends motorcycling down through France and into Spain for the races and then back, how can she ever top that?

Fast forward to leading up to Christmas 2013 me and my 9 year old daughter were sitting watching the beginning of I'm a celebrity get me out of here where the contestants were parachuting out of a helicopter when I casually told her that I always fancied doing that when I was younger...

Fast forward to Christmas Day 2013 whilst I'm opening my presents the usual socks, pants, shirt, tie, a mug with a picture of us with our bikes taken on the trip to Barcelona, motorbike gloves... Here we go the big one is coming... And the whole time I'm thinking where will she send me this year... The Dutch TT at Assen? Germany's Sachsenring? or Mugello in Italy maybe???

No!!! She got me a parachute jump. I nearly choked on my Terry's chocolate orange, I get dizzy standing on a chair changing a light bulb!!!

It's got to be said that my acting at this point was up there with Robert DeNero, so much so that Sheila was as pleased as Punch and starts telling me all about "the jump" that she had planned.

"It's the highest you can do in this country, 15000 feet, that's nearly three miles, you'll be free falling for the first mile, it's in Salisbury though, it had to be there because they're the only ones that go that high"...

At that point her voice sort of faded away into the distance as I could feel my blood pressure going from very high to very low and then back to high again, but I did manage to compose myself just in time to hear her say... "You'll probably need to lose a stone though because it's a tandem jump and you'll be strapped to Jason"

A few weeks later I found out that a brave young family friend of ours called Pearl who's family have become close to mine since they moved to the area. Pearl, at the age of 11 was diagnosed with a brain tumour and has been in and out of hospital ever since having numerous brain surgeries and was at one point in a coma for two weeks, now aged 18 she has committed herself to a year of fund raising for Latch the Welsh children's cancer charity, who were and still are a fantastic source of support to both Pearl and her parents during her long stays in hospital.

Latch not only provide financial, practical and emotional support for children in Wales who have cancer and benign brain tumours like Pearl they fund essential equipment, pay for nursing, social work and psychology staff they also provide accommodation for parents when their child has to go into hospital for treatment such as radiotherapy, in some cases this could save a gruelling journey to Cardiff every day for 6-8 weeks.

So seeing that I'm going to be pushed out of a perfectly good plane that still has enough seats for all of the people that got on, fall at whatever speed that gravity decides, with "Jason" strapped to my back, who, by the way is the only one out of both us that has any control over when the stringy thingy gets pulled I thought I could help Pearl by attempting to raise money in her name for her chosen charity.

So please make a donation however small in the knowledge that you are supporting a worthwhile charity, and help Pearl to make sure that the same support is available to other children and their families who may find themselves in a similar position.

Many thanks

Geraint