Prince Charles and Camilla's car attacked by Huge Pigeon.....

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Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles had a lucky escape last night after a Giant pigeon ,thought to have been bio engineered by terrorists, dropped a huge crap on their Rolls Royce.

Eye (or perhaps ear?) witnesses report that they heard a loud flapping sound followed by a very runny "splat" noise.

Judging by the pictures,it is pretty obvious what the "splat" noise was , so we can only assume that the flapping was either the wings of the giant bird, or more likely the sound produced by a very worried police escort!.

Good news..bad news......better news!

. The good news? I have won a pair of tickets to see the "Night of a thousand Voices" at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The bad news? Kwik Fit emailed me today to say that they don't do sponsorship :-( which is a shame!. Better news? The weather is looking very good for the next few days, and Biff's vinyl cutter is now working! :-).
Tomorrow it's back over to Newark to get the last of the graphics sorted, just hope that I can get it all together before Sunday!.

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Another Friday, another sad discovery................

I was feeling rather optimistic this morning after yet another call to my friends over at the BBC to enquire as to if it would be possible for me to post the Shirley Nolan "Light of Experience" DVD onto my blog. Of course i will have to go through the official channels, but it seems likely that as i am not wanting to publish it for personal gain, and as it is over 30 years old, there should be no major problems with my request.I will keep you informed as to my progress on that issue.

Sadly, whilst "surfing" the net a few minutes ago, I came across yet another possible lead that unfortunately seems now to be an opportunity lost :-(.
It was my discovery of the obituary of Dr David James to which i refer, and it appears that this guy, the co-founder of the Anthony Nolan Trust, passed away quite recently in August 2009.
It struck me that Dr James was not really given the recognition that he deserves in his support and help to Shirley when she had the very first thoughts of setting up a bone marrow donor register, yet in her book (which she jointly dedicated to David and her mother Rhona) she says this "It was our first encounter and I was not immediately aware of his brilliance,vision and determination".
"Somehow i was listening, digesting all that this kind Welshman was saying, and on the surface it appeared to mean that nothing more could be done.But I sensed Dr James did not feel this way......he wanted to continue this work".

As it says in the book "Dedicated to Dr David James of the Westminster Hospital, London, for his vision,courage and personal achievement and to my Mother, Rhoda Oakey, for her constant love and devotion to Anthony".

R.I.P David, your contribution to this amazing,life saving trust is acknowledged and your family should be so proud of your involvement in it's birth.

So now I find that yet another avenue of investigation is no longer possible, so i guess that i must get my thinking cap on again and look for more connections that will one day lead me to my goal.

Today I found Anthony's last resting place.....

After a rather fruitless search last week which involved phoning the parish of St Stephens in London in an attempt to confirm if Anthony Nolan was laid to rest there (he wasn't), i eventually found via the internet (what else!) a site called "find a grave.com"...(!), and there within it's cyber walls I found the info i was seeking, the place that Anthony Nolan was laid to rest.

Not only was the info quite good, but it also had a very emotive picture of Shirley and Anthony blowing bubbles together (see picture above), and a couple of shots of the church itself.

I left a message on the message board, and to accompany it I laid a "virtual" flower......and of course it was a simple daisy :-)

This is the link to the webpage. Click HERE to go to it.

Just waiting for the DVD i requested from the BBC to arrive now....should be here soon !

Mother of Stevenage man who died aged just 26 makes charity donation

Angela Minett raised the money by walking the 10 bridges of London.She donated the £2980 that was raised after the completion of the walk to Leukaemia Research.She undertook the challenge in memory of her son Darren Hall who died of Leukaemia in May 2005.

For the full story please click HERE to go to the Comet 24 Website.

Well done to Angela and all those who took part in the event.

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