The charm offensive - In the name of Thiago - Day 28
The charm offensive –
Blog – Day 28
I’ve been making a big
effort to try and use my contacts in the media in a positive way to help me generate
some more donations for University Hospital Stoke and Birmingham Children’s
Hospital – the two beneficiaries of my fundraising efforts.
As I mentioned yesterday,
my exploits were featured in my hometown local, the Eastbourne Herald and a big chunk of the article was drawn from this
blog. It also struck me, that the things that I was writing about on Day 1, were rather different to what I write
about now.
Have I really come that
far in a month? Maybe I have. Anyway, here’s the link to the piece again in
case you missed yesterday’s blog: https://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/people/huge-250-mile-trek-grieving-dad-who-lost-his-ray-sunshine-1381247
And this morning I’ve
been cracking on with the next opportunities. First up was a visit from a
Sentinel photographer, to go with the piece they plan to publish on Tuesday. I then
went to Signal my local commercial radio station this morning to be interviewed
by Simon Humphreys. Simon has been a news journalist at Signal for 20 years – he’s
the news editor there now – and his passion for the area and for people living in
the Potteries and beyond is a wonderful thing.
He’s very proud of
what the radio station does and so he should be, they have an impressively
strong sense of community. We had a lovely conversation about Thiago, and
though it was very hard for me and a little teary in places, I hope I’ve given
him some good content. It’s a very strange feeling being interviewee after
being interviewer for so many years.
I’m very happy to
report that after yesterday’s walking to work exploits that I feel absolutely fantastic
today, which partly freaks me out, as I was expecting to wake up feeling like a
sack of shit. A few aches were there but they quickly eased off and I feel like
doing it all again, which seems like a very strange thing to write.
A stroll at Westport Lake
beckons now before some research of routes for the summer, which I know that I
need to dedicate time to. Then it’s another dinner party, this time with old
friends Glyn and Janine that it’s fair to say had dropped off the radar somewhat.
Glyn is actually collecting us from our house this evening, which is why I’m writing
this at 2pm. I will certainly not be in mint condition later!
Until tomorrow folks!
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