Join the ME/CFS community for the Tea Party for M.E. on Sunday 18th May.

With no right or wrong way to join in on Blue Sunday, I hope you'll find a way that works for you. A few examples of how others join in each year:

* Having a solo Tea Party For M.E. in whatever way that looks like.

* Using a blue mug.

* Wearing something blue.

* Ensuring there's a packet of your favourite biscuits in your bedside drawer ready for the day.

* Joining a tea party over video call.

* Inviting a few friends over to sit and chat with you while you're in bed.

* Holding a bake sale.

* Scrolling through other peoples' Blue Sunday posts.

* Having a garden tea party.

It's about feeling a part of what is surely the most resilient community out there, and raising a tonne of money while we do it!

Blue Sunday was created by Anna Redshaw in 2013, and has raised more than £100,000 for ME/CFS charities.

Invest in ME Research is an independent UK charity finding, funding and facilitating a strategy of biomedical research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME or ME/CFS).

The charity is run by volunteers - patients or parents of children with ME - with no paid staff.

Overheads are kept to a minimum and all funds raised to go to promoting education of, and funding for biomedical research into, ME.

Our efforts are focused on setting up a UK Centre of Excellence for ME which will provide proper examinations, diagnosis and in time treatment(s)/cure(s).