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It’s taken longer than before for me to recover from my last set of fits but I’m feeling I’m getting there, I’ve been out on my bike with Gareth and Anna who were gentle with me and it was great to get out. I’ve got a couple of bike events coming up. Penge CC whomContinue reading “Getting back on track”

I’ve had a confusing few weeks, two people have died who I thought a huge amount of. I met Richard fleetingly and communicated by text and had some DM contact with Tom over the months. Richard was an award winning Scottish journalist and co founder of the cycling podcast, my favourite podcast in the world.Continue reading “In memory of Richard Moore and Tom Parker”

So a full on week. Started with my eldest Joe and I visiting the Brain Tumour Research Centre of excellence at Queen Mary’s London Town. To place some plaques on the wall of hope. Now through you’re generosity we had 9 plaques to place. Each plaques representing £3000 that’s a days research. I chose toContinue reading “Emotional week”

I haven’t blogged for a while, been a bit under the weather with a cold and change of meds. It’s amazing when you’ve got a terminal diagnosis how you can get anxious about the slightest change in your body. So am I wearing glasses now because I have a brain tumour, or because I’m 50Continue reading “Social Community”

Hello all I’ve been doing my 10000 steps a day for brain tumour reseach and today everyone was full off sadness and anger https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22fundraiser_campaign_id%22%3A322066129792805%7D&path=%2Ffundraiser%2F&_rdr Sadness because for the 2nd time in as many weeks we’ve lost another member of our community and yet again they were only 5, Nate follows Isla to beautiful children whoContinue reading “Angry and sad”

So this week started with my going to Andy Bouchers funeral who died from a similar cancer to mine, the picture below is how I will always remember Andy. The man I met up recently still had the same life in his eyes, but has body was racked with the pain of cancer. What surprisedContinue reading “Tough week”

All the way through high school in Stafford the back 4 of the football team more or less stayed the same. Me at left back the short one, playing off the wrong foot. The centre backs Stephen Wright and Andy Boucher, Steve will always be the tall lanky one , Andy the solid stopper. PatrickContinue reading “Bad start to the year, Better end to the week”

So I think it is fair to say that this was not part of my Christmas plans. Nice quiet one with Jen on Christmas Day Then down to Stafford for us all to do the first Bergin traditional Stafford Boxing Day since Mum died as one, symbolically this was the first year that one ofContinue reading “One last hospital visit 2021”

Today would have been Lewi’s 22nd Birthday he died two and half years of another form of Brain disease, we miss him everyday. The jewel of his mother heart, She will be perpetually broken. If you’re ever low or unsure what to do, find someone and ask Well it’s possibly because of a combination. AContinue reading “It’s the most troublesome time of the year”

So a while back i agreed to to feed 50 people for an evening for the brilliant Toft Tavs captains dinner Turns out whilst I’m still me I’m not the man I was. I struggled with organisation and if not for Jen doing lists for me and just generally being a pillar of calm andContinue reading “Mild panic attack”