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As many of you know, in addition to being the Foodie Gift Hunter, I’m also really lucky to have a great day job with Boots. I am really proud of the partnership Boots has now established with Macmillan Cancer Support, and also the Miles for Macmillan challenge we have this year, where all Boots staff are undertaking to walk, in total, 290,000 miles, one for every person diagnosed with cancer in the UK every year.

I’d like to tell you about our team effort, walking the highways and byways of Leicester all the way to Loughborough on September 9th. The endurance of the uphill parts of the 12 miles and the joy of heading downhill.

I’d like to tell you about which character I will be from Alice in Wonderland during our 12 mile travelling tea party.

I’d like to, but I can’t, as I will be on a whistle-stop tour of the Far East that week, and on the 9th will be in our Hong Kong office.

So my challenge is to walk a mile in each of the four locations, starting with a mile around Terminal 3 on Sunday 5th, a mile in Shanghai, a mile in the unconfirmed location two hours drive from Shanghai, and finally a mile in Hong Kong by Friday 10th.

Whilst no endurance challenge to sit alongside the likes of walking the Great Wall of China, climbing Everest or walking 12 miles as the Mad Hatter, I will endure these miles with jet lag and lack of sleep, an endurance feat in its own right to me. Not to mention potentially high humidy, which I am particularly rubbish at coping with!

If you would like to support this incredibly worthwhile cause and sponsor me in this “long distance” stroll, and support this very worthwhile cause, then please donate on-line at our team’s Just Giving page, remembering to Gift Aid if you can.

http://original.justgiving.com/bootsbbemilesforsmilesmacmillanchallenge

This page is for all our team, so please help me identify your generosity so I can say proper thank you after the event. I’ll be posting photos and tweets, and letting you know if I manage to combine this with any good eating or drinking, not to mention shopping.

I appreciate times are not the best but, to quote one of my least favourite supermarkets, every little does help. Every family hopes never to need the great work that Macmillan do but, sadly, 290,000 families every year do. And for them, they need all the help and support we can give.

Many, many thanks in advance. 

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