SIMON'S BUCKET LIST

• Raise Awareness of Motor Neurone Disease
• Ski with Didier Ughetto ( and other friends)
• Swim with sharks
• Finish walking the Two Moors Way
• Share another bottle of Chateau Thornbury Estates
  ( with Felicity and Aidan at the Estate)
• Walk around Uluru (fka Ayers Rock)
• Fish with the Fabulous Baker Boys
• Ski the Vallée Blanche Chamomnix (and walk to start )
• One Night in Paris

• Drive North on California Highway One
• Transhumance…or at least a summer in the mountains
• Visit Venice or Blackpool
• One more big ‘Father Abraham’
• See the Fjords and Aurora Borealis
• Make love to the Blarney Stone
• Watch 2012 Olympics
• Raise £1 000 000 for Motor Neurone Disease Association
• Skip the light Fandango…and turn cartwheels across the floor…….

SIMON'S STORY

On the 30 October 2009, two weeks after my 46th birthday, I was informed by a neurosurgeon that I was suffering from Motor Neurone Disesase. The prognosis is quite simple, death. The timescale is anything up to three years from the time the symptoms became apparent. For me this was on a Christmas pub crawl in 2008 when I became unable to form words. In March I lost the use of my right arm. I am told that compared to many sufferers my diagnosis was quick.

The horror of being diagnosed with a terminal disease for which there is very litle effective medication, and which strikes sufferers down in most undignified way,is hard to put into words. Please visit the association website for more information.

All money will, like my body, be used to research motor neurone disease in the hope that one day, in the not too distant future the words

"you have motor neurone disease"

will be followed by the phrase

"it is cureable"

Thanks again

Simon