Mrs Gee is taking time off from her lucrative online tar-and-feather business to galumph wearily sprint gracefully round and round somewhere or other to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Gee Minor is helping, and Gee Minima and myself will probably be on hand to dispense cups of tea and the appropriate ungulates unguents.
Please visit their Race For Life page and give generously.
Thank you.
Mrs Gee did receive a response from one person with a broomstick shoved up their arse meretriciously high principles who said they’d rather not support an organization that carried out animal experimentation, and could Mrs Gee tell them of charities that supported palliative care instead?
Mrs Gee’s answer was polite and decorous. Mine wouldn’t have been nearly as refined.
My stepdaughter is doing something similar – running the London Marathon for Macmillan Cancer support. Three colleagues have generously contributed to her “just giving” page – she has to get a very large minimum amount of sponsorship (thousands I dimly recall) in order to start the race, but I hope her employer will make up any shortfall. I suppose this is because so many people apply to run the London Marathon that they can make these sorts of conditions.
Anyway, well done to Mrs Gee and I hope she enjoys her race. My eldest daughter did the “cup of tea handing out” at a similar event on Epsom Downs last year – she might do so again this, don’t suppose that is where you will all be in your race?
Somewhere Norfolkesque and agricultural near Norwich, I think.
I don’t do running, but I cycled a total of 96 km for cancer and MS research last year, and volunteered at walks for breast cancer and MS (again). Those events are always fun!
I wonder if the person who refused to donate would refuse animal-tested medical treatments for themselves or their family?
I wonder if the person who refused to donate would refuse animal-tested medical treatments for themselves or their family?
I
growledexpressed that opinion to Mrs Gee.I read about this on Mike Dunford’s blog and decided that I just had to make a donation.
Wouldn’t it be funny if the main result of this objection is that more money goes to the “animal research funding” CRUK!
On behalf of Mrs Gee – thanks to Mike, and Paul, for your generous donations.
Update – Mrs Gee and Gee Minima ran the race today and finished the 5k in a creditable 50’44". I am very proud of them both. Between they raised about £160 to keep some spotty and ungrateful cell biologist in Eppendorfs for another week. I shall blog about it imminently in another place