I’m still feeling ghastly today, so let’s gloss over it and get on to some excellent news.
I have updates for you on how our fundraising activity is going.
It is going AWESOMELY is how it is going.
Just to recap:
We are walking A Mile in Memory of Keelan Bambrick Webster on Saturday 14th May at 11.00 a.m. through Western Park in Leicester. We will meet at the Glenfield Road entrance of the park where the adventure playground is.
Afterwards we will be holding a kind of fund raising party at The Sportsman pub, Park Rise, Leicester. There will be face painting, a bouncy castle, a cake stall, and we will be announcing the winners of the raffle which so many of you have donated gorgeous prizes for.
Our progress has been staggering.
Not only is my Just Giving page up to nearly £1400, but we have armfuls of the most brilliant prizes for our raffle to boot. All the money is going to help raise funds for the Foundation for The Study of Infant Deaths.
Tom, my lovely cousin has used his graphic design skills to create raffle tickets and posters.
Keith, my lovely friend had a fantastic idea to create a prayer wall on the day of the event and is giving us 100 Tibetan prayer flags to help us make it special.
And you are still donating, gifting, tweeting, researching, mailing and helping in every way you can think of. I quite literally got a sack of parcels this morning from the postman. How brilliant is that? I’ve never been so happy that none of them were for me before.
You rock.
Tomorrow I’m going to start blogging lists of raffle prizes we have so far.
Today Michelle was interviewed on our local radio station; BBC Radio Leicester. She went on the afternoon show with the lovely Rupal Rajani, and spent about fifteen minutes with Rupal talking about Keelan and FSID and our walk.
Michelle was magnificent. I was out at the time, but I got home half an hour ago, and the first thing I did was use the Listen Again facility to hear what she had to say.
She was dignified, thoughtful, passionate and articulate.
She thought she might have come across as sounding silly. She could not be more wrong.
Why not listen for yourself?
Press the play button
Spool forwards to forty minutes into the show.
I did try to embed the page but I don’t have enough technical know how.
I urge you to listen.
You won’t regret it.
Then you can tell her that she wasn’t silly at all. She was and is bloody brilliant.
Oh my God. I am sitting here in floods for her. How utterly heartbreaking. I’ve read what you’ve written about it, but hearing her speak about her it just makes it so real. And Michelle – firstly, I am so very sorry for your loss and secondly, you were utterly brilliant on the radio. Eloquent, together, clear – just a perfect interview. And that’s coming from a PR person.
I listened and managed to hold it together right up to the end where Michelle spoke about how the other children were coping. Now there’s a heap of soggy tissues in the bin.
Michelle you are a wonderful, brave and loving person, don’t ever forget that. I hope you raise tons of money for research and the support of those, like yourself, who have lost their babies.
xox
What an amazing, strong, dignified woman Michelle is. I was so moved.
Me too. Brilliant isn’t she?