Backstory is that my Mum has been relegated to a chair by various cancers and shenanigans. She’s stuck there all day until carers lift her out and take her to bed. Her long term prognosis is not brilliant either and so I’ve been trying to cheer her up. She always enjoys a good cycling tale or a postcard out of the blue. I have run out of things to tell her and so turned to the bikepackers who came up trumps.

These little bits of post made a MASSIVE difference so I asked the roadies as well via road.cc and this has given Mum even more relief from my semi-senile Dad who sits in the chair opposite chuntering on all day.

So, I was wondering whether the mountain bikers could help as well? I can promise that every card/letter/postcard/panda/ferret/photo sent to Mum makes a real difference. Every time I see her, this is all she talks about.

More on the whole thing at this link I’d be genuinely grateful for anyone that could help. Email in profile for Mum’s address.

TIA
Dave

Is it ok to put this on Twitter David?

Happy to 🙂
YHM

Wow this post made me smile a lot and has made a rather crap Friday a little bit better. Medicine in itself. Thankyou.

Dropped you an email Dave.

“Is it ok to put this on Twitter David?”

Yes definitely I’ve spammed Twitter to death with it 😉

Christ, it’s dusty in here.

Faith in humanity restored.

That’s made my day. happy to help David, I’ve dropped you an email. all the best

Seems like we’ve another forum to outdo. Get to it people, the reputation of STW is at stake!

Cougar thank you so much for pinning this. I massively appreciate it and the STW response has already overtaken road.cc

Sorry to hear all of what your mum has had to endure. Will send some flowers at the end of the month (payday)

*sniffs*

*wipes eyes*

sent you an email

card posted 🙂

Sent you an email.

aw lovely idea will write something in near future, apologies befor for poor gramer and spelin misstakes.

Like.

Fantastic thing you are doing for your mum! Very inspiring. Wish I’d done the same for my brother whilst he was around.

David you are one super son,
I understand exactly what you are going through as I lost both parents to bone cancer. My father 18 years ago at 61, and my mother last March at 73. Both were not just my parents but really good friends and mentors in my life.

from your link in the first post the lines:

Mum’s heart nearly exploded when Nigel sat down with his class of schoolchildren and each sent her an individual Christmas card with a fact relevant to the festivities. One child poignantly wrote inside “Don’t worry Jenny, you are not alone”.

Has had me sobbing for over 1/2 hour as its just so simple but so caring.

Tomorrow once I’ve pulled myself together I’m sure I can dig something out to send to both your mother and then to yourself that would just for a brief moment distract you both.

Thank you MrOvershoot as you know at times there is very little you can do and this was the best I can think of. Luckily cyclists are so bloody ace it has worked in spades.

YGM

Email in profile for Mum’s address.

Can’t see it, Dave.

it’s shown in the about me part of Dave’s profile

Hi Dave, I’d be more than happy to contribute from my little corner of France. It’s a great idea and I wish I could do something similar for my mother, unfortunately advanced dementia has taken her from us.

Done. Hope it brings a smile

Emailed

Letters to my Mum

Fantastically written, fantastic just generally. chapeau!

Emailed, off to buy a card.

Emailed. I’ll see what I can come up with.

A beautiful thing you are doing, good on you.

Just been sat with Mum going through the cards, letters, pictures and amazing flowers she has received from you all. I cannot THANK YOU enough as it has really really brightened up her days

Dave

Something will be there soon…

Email sent.

PS – Does she have internet access?

Also reported to see if it can be made a sticky again (seems to have dropped off after the forum update)

TTIUWP 🙂

Excellent. And I had the opportunity to give you a light ribbing to cheer your mum up 🙂

Have you been on Facebook?  There are lots of pages you can like full of adventure stories.  Some are companies, some not.  I have ‘liked’ Salsa cycles for example, lots of race and adventure write-ups on there, but there are probably plenty of other companies doing same.

got my arse in gear to buy a card today – will be in the post for you tomorrow.

Beautifully written on that blog post too – chapeau.

BUMP – This is still Valid

Going on holiday?

Got bored kids?

Do a nice thing – get Dave’s mum’s postal address from him and send her a card.

well reminded, we’re away again in 3 weeks so will send another card

(if my shitty memory holds up)