I was just so proud of my son Stuart who was our club guest speaker last night. His Mum came to give him support and she was so glad she could be there. Stuart told us about the work of COSMIC and the events he and the family have been involved with since Grace died. He was understandably emotional when he talked about his daughter but he composed himself so well and gave an excellent presentation. He finished by showing the video of London – Paris Cycle Ride which lightened the talk for him. Clive Carden gave an excellent vote of thanks and many members came up to Stuart afterwards and expressed their support and congratulations for giving such a good presentation which would not be easy for anyone who had recently lost a child. I don’t think I could have done it.
In fact, I was nervous chairing the evening meeting as there was a Bradburn family presence and the nervousness showed according to my close advisers! Still as I will be making a substantial club donation to COSMIC this year I felt it appropriate that Stuart came to tell us all about the charity. This he did professionally but with with personal emotion as anyone would expect.
I also presented Lloyd with the Golf Cup he won recently, it has just been engraved so it was an appropriate time to hand it over formally at club. Well done again Lloyd.