Glorious sunshine this pm as I finished collecting on
Heskin Lane. Delighted to meet Robert who came out to introduce himself. He is
involved in the local branch of Home Instead and wanted to take a photo of this
woman at work. Robert was very generous in his praise for the Clean up project
and will be including a link to the Clean up Prostate Cancer facebook page. He
accepted a leaflet and I will be dropping off posters for him to display in the
office. Thank you for your support, Robert, it is particularly important because
your work brings you in contact with older men. As we know incidence of
Prostate Cancer increases with age, the time when trouble with men’s waterworks
is often assumed to part of the process getting on in years. A dangerous
assumption, changes in the way a man pees is one of the early signs of this
disease.
Today I jam packed my third bag on this stretch of road now awaiting collection by the wonderful WLDC crew. Contents include one or two curiosities like a
handsome torch and the featured 7 half pint cartons of milk which may well have fallen off
the back of a lorry last December. (Use by date 19th December I didn’t open any, from past experience I
know the smell lingers forever. The neatly tied bag of rubbish pictured on the left is the
inspiration for my small rant of the day. Why did it end up in the hedgerow? You’ve
gone to the trouble of putting it all in a carrier bag, the bag is clean,
nothing is leaking, take it home and put it in the bin. The bag alone could
easily have been used to line a waste bin. It cost 5p so why not get your money’s
worth. Rant over.
Speaking of 5p's, I found one today and have put it in the empty Prostate Cancer UK pot. I made the latest donation of £11.80 yesterday and chose to remember our neighbour and friend, Harold Jeffrey who was so gallant as Prostate Cancer spread through his body. Always dignified, always ready with his gentle smile, suffering in silence, a good man, sadly missed. To make sure others are made aware and do not have to deal with this fate, I keep handing out those leaflets and including the collection on Friday I've dished out 7 this weekend. Pleased as punch! Working together, stepping forward as Robert did today, we can beat Prostate Cancer.
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