Yep, and didn’t that come about quickly! Two more sleeps and Team Terry and I will be walking around Princes Park with everyone else.
It seems like it was only last week that I signed up to walk the 6 km to raise money for Dementia Australia in memory of my loved Terry. But I signed up way back in December, and I had a grand plan to add a kilometre to my walk each month.
Well, that didn’t quite happen. Health issues, a very sore back and then a cough that makes me sound like a pack-a-day smoker all contributed to slowing down my walking plan. So I am still not sure whether I will manage the two laps of the Park. However far I walk (and I will give it my best shot) I know that I have the support of so many people.
There are the wonderful people who have donated to my page to raise money for Dementia Australia. And big thank you to Alys and Sue, who donated from reading this blog. You can check it out by following this link.
As well I will be walking with the fabulous friends who are part of Team Terry and have helped raise money too. We needed something to identify us as Team Terry, so I came up with this idea.
Sparkly headbands onto which I have attached a photo of Terry. The back says ‘Team Terry’.
We will be the glamour team on Sunday!!
The weather is looking good, the company will be great and the cause is worthy. It should be a fun morning.
On a slightly different note….I have often mentioned about the wonderful support I get from so many people. I was so touched when I opened a package a couple of weeks ago.
Many of you know Tierney who blogs at Tierney creates. If you don’t know of her blog and her amazing quilts you should pop over there right now. She has also been through the trauma of loosing her partner, who, coincidentally, was called Terry.
So she sent me a gift of a bag and a whole lot of love and support. The message in her card, which has the image of a quilt she made to honour her father, was so beautiful. The part that really resonated with me was the advice to “Give myself grace”. A beautiful message from a beautiful woman. Many thanks Tierney.
I respectfully acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land on which I live and walk – the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, their spirits, ancestors, elders and community members past and present. The land always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.