Sue Ryder Nurses and healthcare teams are always there for local people who are dying. They are providing incredible emotional support as well as specialist medical care to people who are finding themselves in unimaginably difficult circumstances. We are all facing something we have never faced before which is why Sue Ryder has launched an appeal to make sure that they are still here. I am asking you to give whatever you can afford at this difficult time. Every pound you give could make the difference to whether they can be there or not. It is that simple.

I have walked "The Mountain Connoisseur's Walk" The Cambrian Way between Cardiff and Conwy twice: In 1971 age 24 and unemployed I backpacked solo in 11 days; in 2011 age 64 as a ret'd RAF officer, I did it more comfortably, again solo, in 18 days. Now a widower and 74, I will use Campervan and bike support to complete again, again solo. I will commemorate Shirley by walking with and scattering her ashes.  It encourages me to walk for Sue Ryder Leckhampton Court Hospice.