Hi folks.

As many of you know, our Emilia Badelia will be 50 in April!

Some of you will be celebrating with us at our Village Fete and we are really looking forward to sharing this momentous occasion with whoever is able to make it.

As an aside to this, folks have been asking if there is something that she would like to which you can contribute some money... and it turns out there IS!

As some of you know, Em is fairly obsessed with bicycles and subscribes to the N+1 cycling maxim (the "perfect" number of bikes to own is always one more than the number you currently have). However, you will probably also know that she has had a pretty horrific 18 months - health and energy wise - and she is desperate to get back to cycling, but her energy and new physical limitations means she can no longer ride her current bikes...

We recently went on holiday with our outdoorsy friends Gabrielle and Steve, who supported us to ride the glorious Monsal Trail in The Peak District on hired e-bikes, and this has motivated and inspired Emilia to decide that the time is right for a new step through e-bike, and she's found the perfect one. Please see below.

Link to the bike on the Cycle Company website

We've set our amount at £1000, because we have a 'cunning plan' that she can get a discount from the Ride to Work scheme for most of the rest of it.

There's absolutely no pressure, dear friends and family, to donate to this. We will be over the moon with any donation you feel that you can spare. It really galvanise her mind, body and spirit and be an essential part of her ongoing road to recovery ❤️‍

Here's to getting Emilia cycling again!

With much love and thanks

Kirsty xx