Live Strong

Please pop over to L'optimiste's blog today folks and read her posting on LIVESTRONG. This subject is a personal passion of mine- I have posted about it before. Reading it again this morning makes me realise how lucky I am to live somewhere where there is a national health service.
We have had so much trouble with insurance companies ( for income protection claims while sick etc) I have no trust in them WHATSOEVER. The thought of trusting them with my health makes my hair stand right on end!
No doubt about it- if I had been left at the mercy of health insurers with my medical history I would not be here blogging now.

Kendal Torch Light Procession

Hope you like the montage photo of the Torchlight procession- not my own work- I found it on the internet. I do have some photos of my own but they are rather dark.

Teenager went off on his own with pals after a pizza with mum and dad ( we have uses) and other half and I watched the procession from our vantage point on the high street. Well done to everyone who took part- a community occasion for great causes: CancerCare, St Mary's Hospice, Derian House Children's Hospice and Bay Search and Rescue. Hope they raised a ton of money.

Pity about some of the drunken behaviour of the idiot minority ( there were a couple of arrests). I am afraid the event clashed with the usual Saturday night 'festivities' in Kendal but the police seemed to be keeping a close eye: shame they have to isn't it?