So …many of you will have heard that as a novice sailor I’ve signed up to sail from Antigua to Portsmouth in January as a personal challenge.  That’s up to 33 days at sea in a range of weather from sunny to stormy and cold.

So although I’m not doing this as a charity event, I hope that some of you will feel that my challenge is worthy of a donation, however modest, to aid the fight against the scourge of dementia which affects so many of our loved ones.