Dad, worker, school governor and permanently shattered. Determined to raise funds and awareness for brain tumour research
Cheshire, UK
Joined May 2011
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Whether you like @AyoCaesar or not, and I know opinions are polarised, I hope we can all agree that the fact I’ve just discovered, which is that she follows @RealKingRegal here, speaks very highly of her
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The amazing Alex and Miles doing more extraordinary things to tackle the biggest killer of under forties, brain cancer. Send them your support if you can, they’re doing hard yards out there
Day 1 completed!
It was incredibly hot today, with very little shade for the first few hours until we were just a few kilometres from Alfriston. The climbs and descents were challenging at times, but having Charlotte's walking poles with me made an enormous difference.
Compared with ten years ago, I certainly feel older but I did it, and that's all that matters.
Tomorrow, and again on our return journey on Tuesday 11th, will be our longest day: 21.5 miles (34.5 km). We'll be meeting a cameraman and reporter from @bbcsoutheast in Alfriston before setting off for Pyecombe. I'm not sure when it will be broadcast, but I'll let you know as soon as I do.
If you're able to, please RT There's still time to support a brain tumour charity where 100% of every donation goes directly to research.
Our next milestone is £500,000. Thanks to your incredible generosity, we now have just £98,601.99 to go!
Thank you to everyone who has supported, donated, shared our story and encouraged us along the way. Your kindness means more than you will ever know. Together, we are keeping Charlotte's legacy alive and bringing hope to families affected by brain tumours.
gofundme.com/f/every-mile-fo…
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Hi @MarcSessler I’m a longtime Heedonist who works for the BBC and we’re heading your way! Any chance you could follow me so I can dm you please? Thanks!
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Hi @DanHanzus I’m a longtime Heedonist who works for the BBC and we’re heading your way! Any chance you could follow me so I can dm you please? Thanks!
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Saw @underworldlive at Brixton last night, as I have done countless times over the last few decades. Magnificent, life-affirming stuff as always but the big take-away is how lovely they make people - thousands of strangers all grinning at and hugging each-other like best friends
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Please take a moment for this if you haven’t already - thank you
Brain cancer kills more kids & young adults than any other cancer but it’s woefully underfunded
Our Laura loved her #Everton family but please, who ever you support, sign &share the petition & help us change the brain cancer landscape 💙
@Everton #EFC
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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It’s the first of March so it’s Brain Tumour Awareness Month - time to #ShineALight on this most devastating of diseases - I do this in memory of my gorgeous wife Alina, one of the far-too-many people it has claimed. Go to @braintumourrsch to find out more if you want to help
I’m am adamant @restisents that the best provincial club of the 80s/90s was ‘Kikos, Pontefract’s Top Polynesian Nightspot’. Its decades-empty shell is still there, I wonder whether the plaster palm trees are still inside, along with the countless teeth that got knocked out there
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That John Martyn Rock Goes to College which has just ended on BBC2 is staggering, catch it on the iPlayer before it vanishes for another five years. God he was good. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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chris hunter retweeted
I was Charlotte. I was born in Brighton on 18th Feb 1997. I loved handbags and fashion. I was looking forward to having a career. I was looking forward to getting married and having children. I was looking forward to a long and happy retirement. But none of that happened.
That’s why I write in the past tense.
I died when I was 19 years and 5 days old, on 24.2.2016.
Since I passed my mother and Miles, my older brother,
Have been raising awareness of brain tumours,
especially Glioblastoma.
That’s the one that took me.
It was a grade four and inoperable.
It was on the brain stem.
I had standard NHS treatment: 6 weeks radiotherapy to my brain and spine.
I also had chemotherapy.
Treatment abroad was too expensive.
It's the exception, not the norm. My mother tries to tweet daily about my journey, and now she is forced to tweet about her's.
I documented my journey on my YouTube channel.
youtube.com/@CharlotteEades
When I, Alex, Charlotte's mother, was diagnosed with grade two breast cancer earlier this year,
I was so, so glad that I went for my routine mammogram. Miles and Charlotte would never have forgiven me if I'd missed a free NHS breast screening appointment. Fortunately, it was caught early and I have had a lumpectomy and five days of preventative radiotherapy.
One day I will join Charlotte, but I want to be with Miles for as long as possible. Unlike Charlotte, I am able to fight my cancer because it was caught early. For Charlotte, that made no difference.
Fortunately, a lot of money is donated to breast cancer research, which is wonderful, as, hopefully, I will be able to live a long life. However, Charlotte was not so lucky, as brain cancer research receives virtually no funding.
If you would like to donate to a charity, please think of
charlottesbag.com/
A follow or/and a RT would help so much to raise awareness of two different types of cancer Brain & Breast.
Somebody please tell me how I can get rid of Temu content in this cursed space before I put my phone through a mangle
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Rizzle Kicks are back, apparently. A former colleague of mine quit and moved to America and when asked why, said it was in response to RK’s existence and the fear that if he didn’t put an ocean between himself and them, he might end up that way too.
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Trying to work out which is more likely - Jonathan Gullis being named culture secretary in the new government or this France/Portugal match ever ending
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I’m always inspired by women who say they feel obliged to vote because of the women who died for their right to do so. Men should remember the Representation of the People Act of 1918 came after millions died in WWI and feel the same sense of duty - less than an hour left…
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Hey pop-crazed youngsters, I’m going to be voting for @ChartMusicTOTP in this and after the year that everyone over there has had, I think it would be great if everyone else did too to show what it means to us.
Who's going to be in the running this year? 🎙️🩷
Check out last year's shortlist of 5 and make sure you vote for your favourite podcast in this year's #BritishPodcastAwards Listeners' Choice vote 🗳️👇
britishpodcastawards.com/vot…
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The excellent @RedHandedthepod has won for the last few years because the fandom has really got behind the vote - I think we should do that too
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