Do you care about cancer...?

All over my journal these last two or three days I have seen that 'if you care about someone with cancer you should post this' thing. I have also seen a couple of people saying more or less what I am about to say.

I have no objection to everyone doing it - it is just like any other meme.

Exactly like... it only takes you two minutes, or maybe five, to post it...

Well I'm sorry - but I am not joining in.

Yes I know/knew people with cancer, but just saying so is not really doing anything at all.

If you care about cancer it might be more useful if you go here to MacMillan and choose the 'donate' option - which I just have.

Or Here to the Bobby Robson Foundation and look for the same option - which we did to celebrate the 80th birthday of my father in law. Who has cancer, by the way...

Or take two minutes on Google to look for your local equivalent.

Can't afford to donate $5 or £5? I know some of you can't. So go and find one piece of clothing, or one book, that you don't need, and donate it to your local cancer related charity shop. Even somewhere this small we have 6 shops selling goods for our local hospice and two other cancer related ones - there's bound to be one near you.

Now wouldn't that be a more positive way of showing that you care about cancer?

The Winter Tale, Chapter Four.

This story is wending its way as much as the Elven party is. Set the year after Tindómë returns to Middle Earth, at the end of 'Return of The Key', here is Chapter Four; which takes us from Rohan to Lothlorien...

Rating 15
Word count 4,400

( Click for Chapter Four )

On to the next chapter.

Feedback is always welcomed - feed the writer with calorie-free comments and help her lose those Christmas kilos...

Please do say if you notice any mistakes - S2C generously beta read it for me over the past couple of mornings before he went to bed - but he is never at his best then so there might well be something that both of us have missed.