Myself and Seven of the Motor Marque team decided to partake in ‘Movember’ this year, a month long charity event during which you grow a moustache to raise sponsorship. There’s been some funny looks and laughter all at our expense! We all sported different styles ranging from my very own 70’s style with ‘drop downs’ to the ‘Magnum P.I.’ not forgetting Dave’s ‘Lemmy from Motor Head!’
Despite grief from our families we kept on growing and managed to raise alot of awareness and attention, culminated in a double appearance on ITV’s Calendar on Friday 25th November with Tina Gelder.
Alongside all the fun there has been a serious message; Men just aren’t very good when it comes to health issues, we are ignorant to the dangers or too embarrassed to visit the Doctors. Prostate cancer is a huge killer of men and the statistics for testicular cancer are frightening. A very good friend of mine had a close call with testicular cancer and thankfully has recovered and gone on to live a full and normal life. If he had been less diligent it would have a been a great loss of a young man’s life.
Overall this years The ‘Movember Foundation’ has raised millions to help combat male cancer and bring awareness to these delicate issues. I am pleased to say we did our bit and thanks to your support we managed to raise nearly a thousand pounds! Not bad for a month with some extra facial hair! Now we’re all clean shaven again I have to say, I quite miss my ‘Mo’