This morning I met Mike Selvey for the forthcoming charity book, The Record. Mike played cricket for Middlesex and England, before entering into a long and distinguished career in journalism. He was also a regular summarizer on Test Match Special. Naturally we spent most of the time talking cricket - about his career, and the current state of the game. His first record is a good one, and he definitely enjoys his music. It's another cracking chapter for the book. I am hoping to be close to completing it by the end of this year fingers crossed.
I began putting the new charity book together 18 months ago, not long after we lost mum to bowel cancer. It is the follow up to 2015's Lives & Times. The fundraising is approaching £4000 with all proceeds raised of everything sold on my website donated to Beating Bowel Cancer / Bowel Cancer UK. Bowel cancer is the second highest cancer killer in the UK with 16,000 lives lost to it each year. However, if detected early it can be successfully treated in over 90% of cases. At the moment only 15% cases are diagnosed at this stage, so much more needs to be done to improve early detection rates.
