Chris and Carsten both have wives who were diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the end of 2023. Both wives have endured the chemotherapy and surgery that has enabled them to be leading relatively normal lives into 2025 and hopefully beyond.

Just saying “thank you” to the amazing NHS staff who have cared for our wives so magnificently seemed somehow totally inadequate. Whether nurses in the cancer wards or in the chemotherapy units in Brighton and Haywards Heath, their support was (and is) always so cheerful, kind and caring.

We must also give a special mention to Rebecca Herbertson (oncologist), Sonali Kaushik and Peter Larsen-Disney (both surgeons), who have fought so brilliantly for our wives and so many others.

So. on September 14, 2025, Carsten and I will be participating in the London to Brighton Cycle Ride, together on a tandem - loaned by a brilliant friend, Bob Harper, who is also driving it to London for us!

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