My beautiful, amazing sister, Simone, is currently undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Following a mastectomy at the end of July, she has to endure a 16 week course of chemotherapy and then a course of radiotherapy. Not surprisingly, she is meeting this head on and with the 'I will beat this' attitude. The uni-boob jokes, her walking lopsided and her being a-breast of everything, are all helping with her positive state of mind. A dark humour runs in our family and is used in times like this to show the love and compassion we have for each other.

Anyway I digress, Uni-boob loves a goody bag and since commencing her journey has taken great delight in sharing details of the contents of the bags she receives with her daughter, myself and her many friends; candles, wig holders, thermometers etc. The care taken to ensure that every item in the bags is in some way beneficial to a recovery from this horrendous disease, is beyond measure and what is more, the bags are free to patients.

So by way of a thank you, Simone has enlisted the help of my partner, Rob Newsome to do some fund raising in support of Breast Friends and Family, the providers of said goody bags, by running three 10k races and a half marathon over 4 consecutive weeks. Admittedly it would have been much more fun to see her running round in circles but she isn't well enough at the moment, so .... Go Rob!

"Breast Friends and Family aim to support patients through a breast cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery. To provide the little things that the NHS are not in a position to, little things that will make a difference to individual patients and how they feel about themselves".

Please spare a couple of quid to support the work being done by this wonderful family based charity. I can guarantee any donation, no matter how small, goes a long way in helping the recovery of patients, like my sister Simone and the countless others either going through the battle or having survived the fight with breast cancer.